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John Morrison. Founder and Team Leader of SFF.N
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SFF Network
SFF Workshop
SFFn Staff
Evolution in the fan space is slow. We've reached the era of incremental improvements, whilst the core design of fans stay the same. None of the crazy early days experimentation is found nowadays, sounding a death knell to the likes of hub motors, and even the pure Sandia designed CPU cooler. Instead, small improvements are made (notwithstanding RGB, because that's an entirely different story), in pursuit of a better cooling device.
Material tech is the route chosen by Noctua for improving their fans in this instance, eschewing the fan frame changes shown by DeepCool, CryoRig et al. Better materials can mean tighter tolerances, higher reliability, improved aural characteristics, or a combination thereof. Enter Sterrox, Noctua's Liquid Crystal Polymer. Using this relatively new form of plastic, tighter fan impeller tolerances can be specified, creating more airflow than the usual "just make the hub smaller" methodology that people usually suggest.
Read more here.
Material tech is the route chosen by Noctua for improving their fans in this instance, eschewing the fan frame changes shown by DeepCool, CryoRig et al. Better materials can mean tighter tolerances, higher reliability, improved aural characteristics, or a combination thereof. Enter Sterrox, Noctua's Liquid Crystal Polymer. Using this relatively new form of plastic, tighter fan impeller tolerances can be specified, creating more airflow than the usual "just make the hub smaller" methodology that people usually suggest.
Read more here.