Noctua NF-A8 PWM, Premium Quiet Fan, 4-Pin (80mm, Brown)

Another +1 review to the 5 star camp. IMHO Noctua fans are first class products, this one included.

The Fan that’s missing in all the Alienware Aurora chassis design from r1-r12. The inside haven’t changed. Still lacking air cooling and only room for 1 liquid cooling radiator 120mm. If u running SLI you can’t install liquid cool gpu and ur gpu are literally facing the bottom of the case with no room for air. Only 1 fan is facing the back side of the GPU and that’s the front fan. One of the only 2 fans in this compacted case. They do come standard with up to 3000+rpm fans which is pretty impressive I give them that. But the noise is unbearable at that fan speed. So I switched it to noctua front Fans and got a bit more quiet but not much since I don’t spin the rpm high on the older ones anyways which doesn’t make much noise when it is t spinning crazy anyways, anyways I notice the side panels has ventilations on it and even seems like holes for you to mount a fan. So I bought one of these small 80mm fans to try it out and it worked it was pretty easy disconnect the metal chassis from the plastic cover it, a single clip like mechanism in the center held the entire thing together, ones I unlock the clip I just push and slide the metal plate off the plastic panel from the Aurora and begin installing the fan, funny thing is tho, ones I installed it I realized there is no extra 4 pins fan headers for u to plug in an extra fan unless u want to use the CPU fan header for the side panel fan or put the pump fan to the cpu header and then put the side panel fan to the pump fan, neither option was appealing to me, so I went to secret option number 3, I use the Y cable that came with the noctua 80mm pwn fan and plug my front fan and the side panel fan into it and use the front fan header since they fairly same location of the case and both noctua fans I figure it won’t be too big of a problem fingers crossed and it worked. Even tho they are different sizes and different RPM rating. Lol anyways check out the temp difference. I’m pretty happy with the mod I did on it, almost felt like Alienware should’ve included it from the begining. Also I think there is enough room to fit another 120mm liquid cooler in the front fan spot with a bit of dremel work u can cut out some of the excess metal chassis and some of the plastic in the front. That way u can liquid cool ur gpu and your cpu. I’m thinking I might do that one day just for fun. I don’t even play games on my computer now. I just like taking it apart and changing pc parts left and right just for fun and performance. Anyways yeah if u have an Aurora, get one of these, it’s good.

I ordered a new fan, but it is clearly a used product, look at the pictures. Dont buy here it can happen to you as like me. First time that happend to me in Amazon. Buy from another seller. At least the fan works and it is silent.

They may seem pricy. You might not like the color, but these are hands down the best fans money can buy. When they say ultra quiet, they mean it. I put them in an old NAS that was so loud that you could hardly stand to be in the room with it. Now it’s so quiet I forget it’s on, and it even runs cooler than before.

Almost silent compared to what I took out. I used the rubber pull through mounts and it was very easy to put in.

Im using 2 of these fans in my front to pull cool air into the case and they are doing an excellent job keeping the airflow moving and the internal components (especially my GFX) cool. So far Im a new but HUGE fan of Noctua and believe they are the only company Ill be using for future cooling purchases. All of the recent fans (cpu cooler, 120mm, and 80mm) have been through Noctua for the efficiency of airflow and low noise they provided (none are using the provided low noise adapters as I havent seen the need to use them).

So quite and looks unique.

ordered 3 fans to replace the ones in my battery backup.... all i hear is air noise..

I built up a new system using an old case with space for only 2 80mm fans. I had only one cooler master stalled fan from 10 years ago trying to bring in fresh air and my new AMD 3800x and older 1060GT video card was overheating in the system. games were shutting down and failing right in the middle of rounds of CS:GO. I added this 80mm Noctua to bring in fresh air in the front of the case and flipped the weaker fan to exhaust. The noctua moves more air and is quieter than the old coolermaster, and have not had any issues with overheating the sytem. I wish I had gotten two Noctuas, or spent a bit more to upgrade the case and filled it with these quieter fans (and been able to move up to 120mm).

Quiet, dependable, happiness ensues.