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Linus tech tips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCI XCOM now we talk about not to a products a lot but they don't really release that many new products all at once for the most part but we've got Jacob here from narc to tell us about a whole bunch of crazy stuff that's going on in their boots so why don't you tell us about these yellow fans first yes it's with pleasure first of all the yellow color is just because they are CNC mock-up prototypes they will have to normal knock to a color when they're ready they are new additions to our a series fans we had 114 92 slim 60 and 40 in the past and these are going to be 20 centimeter 92 millimeter with 25 millimeter thickness and 80 millimeter they will have all the features of the a series you already know like flow accelerations channels or SSO two bearings awesome so basically we're getting updates to a couple sizes that we haven't really seen before and that what we're gonna do for an update yes exactly now speaking of usual Noctua color schemes whoa what is this these are black fans targeted for industrial customers they are made from fiberglass reinforced polyamide which is even more rigid than the fiberglass reinforced pvt we normally use they will also come with IP clasp 52 water and dust protection and the new six pole motor design so why do we need a six pole motor design what's the difference between this and the four pole here the improvements of the six pole motor design added it offers even smoother running even lower vibrations and even lower power consumption alright let's move on the heat sinks how did I manage to miss this project Redux this is exclusive if I don't get the exclusive thing I'm not even doing my job Jacob white what's Project redux yeah this is for all the people who ever wanted to knock to a fan but felt it's just too expensive or will take some of our most popular models like the NFS 12 beer or NFP 14 streamlined the packaging and make them available at quite a bit more affordable prices very cool now being a design and engineering company first and foremost and a marketing company second most Noctua just calls this prototype d-type cpu coup but what's cool about this is it stays out of the know zones for your CPU socket it stays away from high-profile memory heat sinks and it also gives you the same cooling surface area and performance as something that previously took up a lot more space by simply using their new 92 millimeter fan design right down the middle so this will be coming at some undisclosed date because right now it doesn't even have a name yet moving right along they've improved compatibility for their low profile coolers you check this out so they basically cut away a little piece here on the side that allows for things like this high capacitors that are next to the PCI Express slot so you can use these easily in either an AMD or Intel Mini ITX configuration now Haswell kicks out a fair bit of heat so they're also adding a higher performance ITX cooling solution that is still low profile enough that it sits easily next to a half-height PCI Express graphics card and doesn't interfere with your full height ddr3 memory modules it also is designed to stay out of the way of your four pin connector as well as your SATA connectors the last thing that we have to show here is the fact that this is not new at all this is the original knob to a CPU cooler the you 12 or something like that doesn't matter what it's called anymore you can't buy one but it still has well compatible with updated mounting hardware and you can still get a free mounting kit if you are not too a customer and you provide proof of purchase now Jacob I ran through all that really quickly because honestly this is going to be the star of the show right here tell me what this guy is because it's like check this out this goes back to my NHD 14 unboxing where I held it up and I'm like it's the size of my head this is the size of my head again yeah it's actually an update long expected and awaited update to our popular NHD 14 we've working really hard to further improve performance and the way we did it is that we expanded the width to 150 millimeter to fit the new nfa 15 fan and at the same time we've also increased spacing between the heatpipes and so we've now got a better heat distribution over larger surface area and this allowed us to really provide a nice additional performance boost compared to the original D 14 now the original D 14 had some compatibility issues from time to time with high profile memory and this of being even wider how do you address that yes we've had we have these little cutouts here and if you drop the front fan you connect install RAM modules with up to 70 millimeter height so if you're willing to sacrifice a tiny bit of performance this cooler gives you actually more flexibility as far as high ram heat spreaders are concerned than the original NHD 14 so here's a look at the the cutout so those cutouts are on both sides meaning you can flip it around you don't have to worry too much about oh I put it on the wrong way so ya don't worry too much about that ah when there's RAM on both sides sorry I was holding the microphone there so if you have RAM on both sides then you'll be able to have clearance on either side now let's move into the space-age stuff that totally doesn't exist yet now my understanding is not to I had to take possession of one of the largest Austrian diamond mines in order to create this new technology tell me what the devil makes this so much more special than what we've already seen as base plates for CPU heatsinks I'm going to try and show them that sparkle there what makes this base unique is that it has a copper diamond composite insert so inside the copper base we have an insert made from a composite material that features a thermal conductivity of 500 watts per meter Kelvin which is roughly 25 percent more than pure copper okay so why why are we doing this already what does it do well the benefit of is it is as we show in this these simulation outputs here is that we get a better heat distribution across the base so we get more heat to the outer heat pipes and kind of make a work when we can make them work more efficiently the reason why we haven't been doing anything like that so far is that the hot pressing technology needed to make this type of material is brand-new and it's very expensive so I cannot really say whether we will actually make it to the market with this one yet now if you make a base out of powder how is that going to even be held together first of all it's pressed together by hot pressing so it forms a solid material but we also need the copper like wrapped around it to make it really solid and to allow us to nickel plate it and so low the heat pipes to it like we usually do there you go guys performance isn't always about looks as Noctua has proven to us time and time again but this my friends if you've hung in with us this long is the voodoo magic that's going on a fan if active noise cancellation technology so why don't you first explain what is ANC the basic principle behind a and C is that you use one sound wave to Ken's loud another sound wave by overlapping so this will be a zero decibel CPU cooler well in theory yes in practice unfortunately that's not possible the main reason for this is that the way fans emit noise is just so complex they produce your rotating pressure fields and in order to do active noise cancellation on that you have to exactly match these rotating pressure fields so how do you even get close what are you guys doing to make a fan make noise and make anti noise at the same time well the brilliant thing about the road to sub technology that we're using is that we actually employ the fan impeller to create the anti noise signal now the way this works is that we have a coil inside the fan frame and a magnet sitting inside the blade tips and when we switch on the coil we can pull down the blade tips just ever so slightly and when we switch off the coil again they go back up so does this create additional vibration when the fans spinning that can be transmitted to your case no it doesn't because most of the fan vibrations unless the fan is broken comes from the blades passing over the struts and these are act exactly the pressure fluctuations we're cancelling out with the active noise control as well so there's gonna be products at some point maybe you know it'll be a while in the future but this fan what's the challenge building a radiator fan that uses this active noise cancellation technology the challenge you're facing with radiator fans is that they are just so many types of different radiators different frame grills etc basically the controller we're working with and the logic working inside the controller is designed to be self adaptive and self learning but we're still seeing better results when we can somewhat control the environment all right now show us what controls the environment better than an entire self-contained NOC to a cooler that uses this technology and tell us about this cooler yes in this case we have the fan sitting in between the fin stacks it's a similar design as the popular NHD 14 and in this case we know exactly at the distance between the fan and the fin stacks and what will occur when the fan will hit the the air coming from the fan will hit the heatsink fins okay show us your demo here and they're going to have to rely on this graph but we've heard it it actually works so there's a microphone inside the case this whole thing is tool list so you actually slide the entire assembly with the fan in the middle into place after you've already installed the cooler you no longer you said you're able to get pretty similar performance to that double stack cooler over there with the shroud and with a single fan instead of two fans making it lower profile and check out this that is the microphone that goes into the action until there's actual logic built into your CPU cooler now which is absolutely fantastic so guys we are going to have Jacob press the switch and turn the active noise cancellation on and off and we're going to direct your attention to this little graph over here so this is showing actually here if I if I tap on the back of the case hold on if I yell them but there we go you can see my voice right there if I stop talking bah-ha okay so you can see the microphone is working now go ahead and turn active noise cancellation on and off I'm gonna I'm gonna stop talking we're gonna see if they can figure it out there's a lot of ambient noise here I guess I'm sorry but you guys are going to have to kind of take my word for it what it does is it eliminates that that noise it doesn't make the fan completely silent but you know how you often talk about different characteristics of fans where a decibel meter doesn't necessarily tell the whole story because it just tells you the sound pressure it doesn't tell you if it's a low hum or whether it's an annoying kind of noise like that so this it works and it's extremely exciting when can we buy one well that's still a lot of challenges we face in manufacturing because it's a vital importance to get everything lined up very precisely because the risk with this kind of technology is that if you're just off by 0.1 or 0.2 millimeter if the sound waves don't overlap exactly as you want you will end up creating more noise than you originally have so we have to make sure that everything is just super precise in manufacturing and I think if I think if everything goes very smoothly we could have a product ready on the market in spring 2014 or maybe for next Computex wonderful so guys thank you so much to Jacob for joining us here don't let don't miss any of our Computex 2013 coverage we're powered by Western Digital here at the show as 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