Noctua NF-P12 Review

Contents & Packaging

The packaging is again in Noctua’s usual colour scheme consisting of browns, blues and blacks. Again, similar to post of Noctua’s packaging, there is a small cut out roughly in the centre providing a sneak preview of the fan contained inside. Visible from this window is one of the rubber anti-vibration mounts.

The back, whilst looking like any generic box entailing features, specifications and a few translations for multi-lingual purposes, the back actually acts as a book and can be folded out to reveal a whole host of diagrams, pictures and explanations as to how this fan is a cut above the rest including the SSO bearing and special blade designs which I’ll come onto later.

Inside the packaging, the accessories are held in vacuum-packed plastic – nice to see them all neatly laid out instead of sprawled all over the place. The accessories are:

• 4 rubber anti-vibration mounts
• Fan screws
• Low-Noise-Adapter (L.N.A.)
• Ultra-Low-Noise Adapter (U.L.N.A)

The L.N.A. and U.L.N.A. adapters serve to act as an alternative to a fan controller as they are effectively just resistance wires which reduce fan speed and therefore noise.

They do however reduce the noise quite dramatically down to 16.9dBA at 1100RPM and again to 12.6dBA at 900RPM using the appropriate. Therefore, you can simply you whichever cable you want depending on how much cooling and noise you can put up with.