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our 2015 Computex coverage is brought to you by fantex nvidia corsair and CI x silverstone and in win make sure to support them for helping us bring this great content to you I was very happy to have a chance to stop by Noctua at Computex talked to the guys and see what's in store for their future fans and coolers and the actually working on their next generation a series 120 member and 140 men are fans that on the surface might not look at all different because the core formula of every knock toward a fan is pretty much already there like rubber corners to prevent vibrations the small curved incisions on the blades for best possible airflow dynamics and the spacing between the fan blades and the frame is now ultra tight at 0.5 millimeters that we are told introduced a lot of manufacturing challenges and Noctua has been really hard at work making sure that each single fan is up to their standards and most important element of this new fan is its positioning between the NFF 12 and the NFS 12 fans so instead of being either optimized for high airflow or high static pressure this new generation a series fan is more like a hybrid where it will shine in all types of scenarios either for a radiator or a CPU heatsink or even just using it as an airflow case fan here they showed us the performance graphs so the RPM is bit higher at 1,800 versus 1500 so you get still less noise output and delivering to degree Delta and I think all the work that they're doing to improve when all the elements of a fan are necessary on display they also had the next generation you type coolers based off the Nhu 12s and Nhu 14s the 120 millimeter model has the seen increased thin surface area of extra fifty percent they've added an additional heat pipe totaling to six instead of five for the 140 millimeter model the thin surface area has now been increased by 30% and the heatsink is non symmetrical which allows a better compatibility for PCI lanes Ram compatibility is still at 100% from both the heat sinks with a single fan installed the rollout for these new coolers is expected soon along with their next generation a series fans of both 120 and 140 Milner models as soon as they launch so we should expect temperature and noise output to drop when both of these are combined to work together furthermore we get to see their progress on creating an active noise-cancelling fan it's not totally new you've probably heard about this in the past as it began with this control board that would do all the necessary computations for the fan to operate as active noise-cancelling as over time this controller board has shrunk in size so to now actually fit behind the motor and this is what the fully integrated controller looks like the other parts of the equation are the blades in particular these magnets on the edges of the blades and this coil that is installed inside the frame the coil is said to pull the magnets inward very quickly thus creating this pulsing of the blades that in effect suppresses the noise and this was first demoed some three years ago and it is the manufacturing challenges that keeps pushing active noise-cancelling fans from hitting the consumer shelves it's really cool regardless knocked away is always improving and perhaps we will see a more ready active noise-cancelling fan sometime next year at Computex or at least we can hope you