NF-A14 PWM

I purchased these NF-A14 PWM fans to replace some beQuiet Silent Wings 3 fans which came pre-installed in my case. The Silent Wings 3 fans were silent at low RPM but had an annoying whine at max speed and also didn't seem to shift much air at the same time, so I was never quite happy with them. I have used a few different Noctua products previously and already know that their products are of very high quality, come bundled with lots of useful accessories and are always presented very well in high quality packaging. Noctua also offer a 6 year warranty with these fans which speaks volumes about the quality of the products, and, Noctua's confidence in them. These fans came with some silicone anti-vibration mounts as well as screws to attach them to the case. Initially I tried the anti-vibration mounts but found the fans ended up being too loose and didn't feel very secure so I used the screws instead. After powering up the PC and setting my fan curves I can happily say these are almost silent at lower RPMs with decent airflow. Admittedly they are considerably louder at full speed than the Silent Wings 3 fans were but these are also pushing way more air and have a 50% higher RPM. I don't expect to ever need to run them at full speed but nice to know I have the capacity there. The lowest speed I can run them on my motherboard PWM headers is 200 RPM at which they are nearly completely silent. Any existing customers of Noctua will know that a lot of their fans don't have the nicest of colour schemes. Beige and brown are not normally colours associated with enthusiast PC builds! If they are going to be hidden in your case then it obviously makes no difference but if they are going to be on show just be sure you can accept the colour scheme! Noctua have started making other fans that are more suitable colour-wise, however none of these models appear to have the same specs as the NF-A14 at the moment. Overall these are awesome fans and probably some of the best you can buy. If you don't mind the colour scheme and the premium price then you will as pleased as I am with them.

These are or are perhaps the best fans I've ever used, nicely made & quiet, always worth spending a little more & buying good fans!

I've been using Noctua fans for as long as I remember, all of which are still running perfectly fine, 10 years +. This is just another addition to my collection. While in majority of my use cases the fan is hidden, for this project I needed to consider the aesthetics too and conveniently, the fan blends in with the colour scheme perfectly. A project I've been working on for some time as I am a big fan of upcycling old hardware. Here we have a 10 year old laptop repurposed as a NAS, mated to a 3D printed case, with a 4 port SATA controller in place of the WIFI card, wrapped with real oak veneer and a big Noctua fan in the back. The setup is silent with the fan PWM controlled by ESP8266 communicating with my TrueNAS install over USB for system temps, majority of the time running at 20-30%. Ignore the cables as this is still a work in progress :D

Case fans. Most of them do not last the test of time as they start ticking and I am sensitive to that. I have tried many but oneday was offered one of these by a friend who had ordered too many and had a spare. I originally ignored Noctua, not because of the quality, but because I didn't like the colour and thought they were pointlessly expensive. A bit like Stella Artois. Anyway, it was unused and the price was good so I went for it. How wrong was I? Very wrong. This was two years ago and this fan is still silent and strong and performing so well I just bought another (changing aio meant I had more room). Yes, the box it comes with is over the top and silly and some of the included extras (you get a lot of extras in the box) are a bit gimmicky and they are a little on the expensive side but if you want a powerful, quiet, and long long lasting case fan you can't really go wrong with a Noctua NF-A14. Recommended

Perfection, nothing else to say. The air moves the most whilst staying quiet. With further tweaking it's always cool and quiet.

This is one of the best pc games out there, the silicone feet are a great design inclusion as the prevent any vibrations or friction so the noise is kept to minumal levels

Not the best looking fan I've ever seen but oh my god its silent, It was that good I bought another one straight away

top-tier quality and durability