Followers, coolers, energy provides, graphics playing cards, and, from immediately, a case are formally out there in Noctua trim. Nice information for Noctua followers; much less so people who suppose PCs must be brilliant and daring slightly than brown and beige. Fortunately, I am into the Noctua look.
The Antec Flux Professional Noctua Version is the Austrian cooling firm’s spin on an Antec staple. The Flux Professional was launched a 12 months and a half in the past and has been usually very effectively acquired; Noctua is altering just a few key issues with its model, although the basics stay the identical.
This is what’s new with the Flux Professional Noctua Version:
- 4x NF-A14x25 G2 followers
- 2x NF-A12 G2x25 followers
- 1x NA-FH1 fan controller
- Noctua branding on the entrance/aspect/prime
- Brown colourway
- Cute Noctua fan keyring
The entire package deal is priced at $400—not an affordable chassis, by any means. Although it does provide a saving in comparison with the overall price of buying every particular person part individually: similar followers, controller and case, as offered individually immediately, would set you again $467.
The basic Antec Flux Professional contains six followers—Tranquil 140 and P12R reverse—in its $180 MSRP. In the event you simply need the final look, together with the identical actual walnut encompass on the entrance panel, and with out the a lot greater price ticket, that is your greatest guess.
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Although there are additionally ample causes to improve. I’ve beforehand examined the NF-A12x25 G2 and are available away impressed by the excessive quantity of airflow it produces all through the RPM vary—even at decrease speeds. That is vital while you’re working followers on a curve, as most might be, as you will get away with decrease speeds the place others could not produce pretty much as good outcomes. Decrease speeds, much less noise. Once you’re bumping as much as 140 mm followers, as provided right here, these advantages are solely improved upon by the slower pace of the bigger fan.
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Noctua’s personal testing suggests the NF-A14x25 G2 constantly produces greater airflow with decrease noise than the Flux Professional’s inventory followers. That interprets to decrease temperatures, by a single diploma Celsius to as a lot as 4, when working on the identical noise degree to the inventory followers. Noctua even goes as far to supply take a look at outcomes for acoustic directivity, this being the noise degree as measured by a microphone going through the case at totally different angles. I will embrace a screenshot of this under, just because I’ve not had that offered to me earlier than.
Flux Professional Noctua Version specs
Type issue: ATX
Dimensions: 530 x 245 x 545 mm
Motherboard help: E-ATX, ATX, Micro-ATX, ITX
Enlargement slots: 8
Entrance IO: 2x USB 3.0, 1x type-C 10Gbps, 1x headphone/mic combo jack
Complete fan help: As much as 3 x 140 mm FRONT; as much as 3x 140 mm TOP; as much as 3x 120 mm PSU SHROUD; as much as 2x 140 mm BOTTOM; As much as 1x 140 mm REAR
Followers included: 4 x 140mm NF-A14x25 G2 PWM, 2x NF-A12x25 G2 PWM
Radiator help: As much as 420 mm TOP + FRONT
Graphics card help: As much as 455 mm
Storage: 6x 2.5-inch; 4x 3.5-inch
Weight: 17.7 kg
Value: $400/€400
Let’s get into my very own expertise right here. Upon eradicating the case from its field and foam insert—the nice kind that does not explode into a lot of tiny white specks that persist with every part—my first impressions are very optimistic. The equipment are saved in a neatly divided plastic container, the followers packed individually with their equipment, and the entrance I/O comes with protecting inserts. There’s even a small pattern of walnut to mark its authenticity and a tiny Noctua fan keyring included.
The Flux Professional Noctua Version seems higher suited to the workplace of a Sixties promoting government than a contemporary gamer’s den. That fits me to a T—I am not chain smoking in my suspenders all day however I recognize the end.
The walnut seems nice. Partly, I really feel, as a result of there solely being a small quantity of it. It surrounds a mesh panel, that includes a beautiful design pressed into the steel itself. You may see proper by means of the entrance panel, suggesting to me that it might impede the airflow to the followers since put in behind it little or no. That is true, as I’ve examined it. As measured with my anemometer, the entrance mesh reduces airflow by simply 0.4 m/s—from 2.7 m/s to 2.3 m/s.
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The fan structure advisable by Noctua contains three NF-A14x25 as consumption, one within the rear as exhaust, and two NF-A12x25 above the PSU shroud as consumption. So that is what I’ve gone for in my take a look at construct. I’ve opted for a trusty Ryzen 7 9800X3D right here, onto which I’ve squished a Noctua NH-D15 G2. Although there’s ample room above to put in a radiator, as much as 420 mm.
I just lately reviewed the RTX 5080 Noctua Version, nonetheless, I might already despatched it again by the point this got here in. Boo, that will’ve been good.
You may set up an analogous sized radiator within the entrance of the case, do you have to want to, and even instead of the followers atop the PSU shroud. The PSU shroud is adjustable with plates included within the field. Although I might be cautious of mounting a radiator on this place, except you are constructing a customized loop with some type of reservoir or distro plate at the next level within the construct, as you are certain to get bubbles within the pump. That can very probably scale back the lifespan and trigger it to run louder.
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With my followers put in within the advisable places, I set about working Metro Exodus Enhanced Version for an prolonged five-run take a look at. Then, as a result of I might wish to know whether or not these bottom-mounted followers make a lot of a distinction, I uninstalled each and ran the take a look at once more. Listed below are the outcomes:
Antec Flux Professional Noctua Version – fan testing
Metro Exodus EE | 5x benchmark loop | Extremely
| Product | Worth |
|---|---|
| 2x NF-A12x25 | 61 Avg GPU (°C), 49 Avg CPU (°C) |
| No decrease followers | 64 Avg GPU (°C), 48 Avg CPU (°C) |
Purchase if…
✅ You need peace and quiet: Noctua followers ship very good airflow even at low rpm, which is nice for dropping your fan curves with out rising temps an excessive amount of.
Do not buy if…
❌ You need the perfect worth: The usual Antex Flux Professional is already a premium case with loads of followers. It won’t be as quiet, however it’s loads for many.
So, these two followers do make an enormous distinction. For the graphics card, in any case, although that makes full sense. A waft of contemporary air direct to your GPU does go a good distance, even when the CPU seems to be largely unaffected by the extra airflow. It’s also possible to verify the temperatures on the fly utilizing the small display screen mounted into the aspect panel on the case. It seems fairly sensible, too.
To the rear of the case, the panel pops off simply with out instruments (as do all panels on the Flux Professional) to disclose ample cable administration choices. A handful of Velcro straps for the primary channel and extra to the rear.
The PSU is mounted to the aspect, with a cable offered to reroute the exterior energy connector again to the same old spot. That is normally fairly useful, because it means you may simply entry the ability connectors on the aspect of the ability provide. Although, I am utilizing a Corsair Shift PSU, which already does that, so it is not suitable. Fortunately, there is a spare panel included within the field to modify it to a standard set-up.
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The additional benefit of the Noctua Version right here being the NA-FH1 fan controller, magnetically connected the highest left of the motherboard panel. That comes with Noctua’s personal extension cables already linked and lined as much as precisely the place you want them for the usual fan structure. That saves a while throughout the construct.
Altogether, you are scoring an already very succesful case within the Flux Professional with the additional advantage of the perfect PC followers. That may be a potent mixture, however you’d anticipate as a lot for the value. There isn’t any denying {that a} full construct utilizing Noctua followers has change into a really costly proposition nowadays, although little question a well-cooled and quiet one for the added funding.
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