Noctua announcing PC fans with active noise cancellation at Computex

Brian Ambrozy 30 May, 2012 at 1:21am ET Article published in Tech

Rotosub noise cancelling technology in Noctua fans

SCIENCE

Noctua has been around for ages in the PC cooling business. The Austrian company is known in hardcore system builder and PC enthusiast circles as purveyors of some of the best fans and heatsinks out there. Some of their products, such as the NH-U9B, have reached “legendary” status for being best-of-breed.

Today they announced a partnership with Rotosub to develop PC fans with active noise cancellation. The demonstrations on the Rotosub website are astounding, and the end results should vault Noctua fans to the top of the heap for PC fans, at least technology wise.

The technology has not been fully implemented in any Noctua products, but they will be demonstrating their first public performance of the new fans, based on the Noctua NF-F12, at Computex next week. Icrontic will definitely be on the scene to witness this world’s first demonstration. If this works and the fans aren’t extraordinarily expensive, this will make significant impact in the quiet PC game. Check out the Rotosub video:

Comments

30 May 2012 ~ 1:32am Tushon Holy ... crapola ... Freaking awesome.
30 May 2012 ~ 7:30am NullenVoyd The bright side, these would be AWESOME in entertainment center systems and music studio computers!

The only downside is the technology tends to kill ghosts, the movement of which helps keep harmful space rays from mutating our pies and other baked goods.
30 May 2012 ~ 9:26am mertesn
The only downside is the technology tends to kill ghosts, the movement of which helps keep harmful space rays from mutating our pies and other baked goods.
I can live with that.
30 May 2012 ~ 9:48am RyanMM Now all we need is noise cancellation for hard drives.
30 May 2012 ~ 10:03am Garg Why didn't I think of this? Imagine silencing one of those old finger-chopping banshee-wailing Delta 60mm fans.
30 May 2012 ~ 10:20am Cliff_Forster Hey, they had one of our Baltimore Aircoil Cooling Towers in the video! The little things....
30 May 2012 ~ 10:23am ryan shut up and take my money!
30 May 2012 ~ 10:30am Ryder
Now all we need is noise cancellation for hard drives.
That is called an SSD.
30 May 2012 ~ 2:36pm fggfdg Can this be attached to a nagging wife's mouth?
30 May 2012 ~ 3:01pm fatcat Ryder beat me too it

and LOL to the last comment
25 Jun 2012 ~ 5:55pm Thrax Demo video from Noctua: