The Forbidden Noctua Interview: Fan Engineering Technical Discussion & Challenges
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We interviewed one of Noctua's technical team members (Jakob Dellinger) to discuss the challenges and troubles of focusing entirely on performance for a cooling product. This video goes over fan behaviors like tensile strength, endurance, aging, creep, and cooling characteristics like blade tip distance from the frame and blade passing harmonics. The video is a surprisingly transparent insight into what Noctua has been dealing with for 8 years now as it has attempted to reinvent its most popular product, and the company now thinks it has an NH-D15 Gen2 and "Next Gen Fan" nearly ready for primetime.
Watch our Noctua NH-D15 Gen2 coverage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cng_J4sBaNs
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - The Forbidden Noctua Interview
01:47 - The Noctua Delays
03:10 - The Development Cycle
06:52 - Limitations of Simulation
08:31 - Prototypes on the Wall
11:21 - TECHNICAL: Next Gen Fan Hook Design
16:38 - Noctua's Trouble
22:04 - Fan Stresses, Materials, & Release Dates
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Video: Vitalii Makhnovets, Mike Gaglione