Coming up: Noctua 200mm Fans (Patreon)

We're working on reviewing the Noctua 200mm fans! Separately, we just got a wind tunnel in and working, and should soon be able to do CFM calculations on fans. This will help us in our upcoming fan reviews. The 200mm units, unfortunately, won't fit on the wind tunnel, but we are still doing thermal + LPM (Linear feet per minute) tests on the Noctua 200s, primarily benchmarking them against the Cooler Master 200mm fans from the H500P. Rather than test with an open bench of some sort, we're testing in the H500P Meshify (that we made), as the fans are simply too big to use on anything else that we benchmark.

Other than that, the plan is to launch a HW News video today, then push some GPU reviews. We're still waiting on the AMD drivers to start working properly with AIB partner cards, though. We retested the Strix V64 with 11.13.4 and it is still underperforming versus target. At this point, we may just publish the numbers as is, which shows them all pretty much the same. AMD Adrenalin may fix that issue. We'll see.

Other plans include potentially upgrading my own system (I'm on an FX-8350 garbage PC that was cobbled together with unneeded parts from the lab), and maybe Andrew's rendering rig. The latter is a lot more difficult, as we have RAIDs that would need to be backed-up and relocated.

The fan testing, I think, is the most interesting thing we're doing right now. AFAIK, we should be one of the only YT outlets capable of doing a wind tunnel test for fan reviews, which means more objective data for you all. The wind tunnel is on its way to being functional. It won't be in the 200mm review, but will be used for 120s and 140s.

Anyone have fans they specifically want to see tested?