Review on 💨 Noctua NF-F12 iPPC 3000 PWM, High-Performance Cooling Fan, 4-Pin, 3000 RPM (120mm, Black) by Jasmit Insha ᠌

Name: 💨 Noctua NF-F12 iPPC 3000 PWM, High-Performance Cooling Fan, 4-Pin, 3000 RPM (120mm, Black)
Item: 💨 Noctua NF-F12 iPPC 3000 PWM, High-Performance Cooling Fan, 4-Pin, 3000 RPM (120mm, Black)
Rating: 4

October 21, 2022

What you need, a cool purchase, I advise you.

It took me a long time to choose fans for the case.
There were three applicants after studying topics on the Internet:
1) kama flow by Scythe;
2) gentle typhoon by Scythe
3) NF-F12 PWM from Noctua.
According to the descriptions, I liked the gentle typhoon with a regular ball bearing; which works in any position of the impeller axis in space, unlike the bushing used in the first and third versions.
And the lower price than that of the NF-F12 PWM pushed him to buy it.
The only thing that was alarming was the feedback from the user that the gentle typhoon has a VERY short wire length. After installing the Mine 2 CPU cooler from Scythe, I decided that I didn’t want to buy and suffer with Scythe products, stepping on the rake “where to buy an extension cord”. Bought for 740.
In terms of service life and noise, a year later I write: the coolers remained quiet. But . they stand on my injection; blowing need others: NF-S12

Pros

Extension cords, a beautiful box for a gift))), declared service life.

Cons

1) The design of the fastening of the current-carrying wires is not thought out. Please note: in the photographs, the fan is shown from the side where the wires and their laying are not striking. The NF-F12 PWM was photographed in such a way that the "erotic" wire laying was not visible. After all, fighting for every decibel, (and how could it be otherwise with the cost of the Interskol drill?), it was necessary to put them in some kind of streamlined tube or laminate them to reduce resistance to air flow. But in real life they just hang around one of the eleven radial edges. 2) Vibration isolators in the form of corners protrude beyond the plane of the housing; during installation, they prevent the fan from being pressed tightly against the wall, resulting in a gap between the wall and the fan housing. I have left everything as it is for now; but you have to remove these corners and put them through rubber washers, as usual. Corners not adjacent to the wall, removed immediately, so as not to collect dust. 3) Color solution.