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Noctua SSO Bearing Fan Retail Cooling NF-R8 redux-1200

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

The noctua 1800 is much quieter than the original mac fan. They are insanely quiet. The 1800 fan is even quieter and faster than the older, slower, and quieterer fan.

I love the no-nonsense philosophy about the redux line of fans.

This fan works perfectly. Worth every penny.

The redux-1200 is shaky at 5v, but still a great fan. High air flow. Added these and a new cpu cooler to move air around the case.

Cons

Had some noisey rack-mount equipment. Exchanged fan and still didn't work. This fan seems lighter than the old fan and apparently lacks the quality. Well, what the heck.

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Quality

Excellent quality- i'll only use noctua for lighting solutions!

Excellent fan for my home media server build.

My 5-bay synology uses two 80mm fans so small changes in air-volume caused and insignificant temperature rise [+1 degree c].

I feel like the nf-r8 may be good to put somewhere in your system where you may have a dead zone of air flow, but it wouldn't b... Read More

Price

It's a great value for the price and i would buy again.

Excellent purchase at a very low price point

So, after posting the question on amazon and getting no response, i went ahead and spent the extra $10 and bought both this fan... Read More

Pay a few dollars more for quality and get reliable and quiet fans to protect your computer gear for life.

Shipping

They have answered our technical questions quickly with exactly the information we requested.

Competitiveness

This noctua is built better than the artic.

No better fans out there in my opinion than noctua for your money.

Price is more expensive than other maker.

I bought this fan and the artic f8 at the same time to compare side by side.

Overview

How are reviewers describing this item?
quiet, great, silent, good and noisy.

Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.

Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.

This product had a total of 1,254 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 23 2024.