Noctua NF-A14 PWM chromax.Black.swap, Premium Quiet Fan, 4-Pin (140mm, Black)

Noctua makes exceptional fans! I got 2 with my fan cooler on my 1920x build, but the color was...doo do brown hahahaha. Kinda kills the look of my mostly black and blue scheme. Tried some CoolerMasters, Phanteks, and a couple others that all made more noise at lower speeds. Replaced most of the fans in my case with Noctua and now have to double check to make sure its off!

The fans themselves are great, but I do not recommend them for compact spaces. Due to the extremely short cable the PWM socket and extension cable create a bulky slab of plastic that needs to fit somewhere around the fan. It made it difficult to get the dust filter on my Evolv case, but if the cables were longer I could have snaked the connection point away. I managed to tuck the connection point between the side of the fan and the case itself, but I was lucky to have enough space to do so. If you are working with limited space and need a long cable to move the connection point away from the fan I suggest finding something with a longer cable.

I did a lot of research before buying a couple of these for intake fans on the front of my case. I currently only have them up front and one 120mm phanteks exhaust fan in the back. My temps are wonderful. I had the two stock phanteks ones up front before this and not only did my temps come down, but the noise did as well. As with all fans they can get pretty loud if you have on an aggressive fan curve. My 8700k and 1080 SC2 are all air cooled so I have a decently strong fan curve going and I never feel they are too loud. Its a very solid whirm sound too, nothing obnoxious.

These fans are great when you received new product. When I received the fans the package was already opened and ripped. In addition the fans were missing the black anti-vibration pads. It seems people are ordering extra fans to get a full set of matching pads and returning them with missing colors.

Great looking fans! I was about to the get the non-chromax version but I realized if this was going to be my first build, I would prefer it to have a theme since my case has tempered glass. I do appreciate the customization of the corners and love how its black compared to the non-chromax brown color. However, I am disappointed that these fans cables are short (about half a foot long) and do not have a Y-splitter compared to the non-chromax. If this had the Y-splitter, I would be able to connect it to my cases fan controller, which I would prefer. Nonetheless, will go back to Noctua. If only they have LED/RGB...

I replaced my Nzxt stock fans that came with my case and oh man what a big difference in quality and noise. Like its soo quiet that the only noise is making in my case is the fans below my gpu. Very worth buying.

Best case fans I could find. I can’t even tell their on unless I put my hand over them to feel the airflow.

I used this fan to replace the noisy stock fan of the NZXT H1 V2 AIO cooler.

This is an update as one of the two fans I purchased just up and failed. No warning, nothing wrong with the bearing and when I plugged in a different fan to the same connection the replacement worked fine.

Very good case fan. Noise level is excellent and pretty much unnoticeable during normal loads (noise level was good under load too). The screw holes are not pre-screwed with the spirals in them but apparently this is common with fans.