Noctua HOME, They Escaped The Enclosure!

Why No Tan Options?

Noctua HOME is a new consumer product which obviously stems from their industrial line of fans and cooling devices, as it is intended for cooling other types of electronics.  It also includes a fan for the user as well, good timing as we are expecting a toasty summer.  The Noctua Home lineup includes NV‑FS1 which is a NF‑A12x25 PWM chromax.black fan protected by a grill, and their NV‑AA1-A12 airflow amplifier, so you can target airflow at yourself or anything else that needs focused airflow to keep it’s cool.

There is also the NV‑FS2, which uses the same NF‑A12x25 PWM chromax.black fan but houses it in a NV‑MPG1 multi‑purpose rubber gasket with NV‑MPP1 rubber pads.  This device can sit on or under entertainment system components to provide direct active cooling to a receiver or other electronic components needed more cooling than their integral solutions provide.  You might be able to get three or four of them to place under a gaming laptop, for instance.  Last is the NV‑SPH1 which is a powered fan‑hub solution to control all these devices. 

If you love Noctua, need to keep some components cool or both you should take a peek at the full Noctua HOME review.  Please don’t use them to try to cool the hot new trend in AI data centres, putting them in your backyard in exchange for subsidized electricity and Internet access along with backup batteries. Those distributed data centre solutions are  liquid-cooled, since they contain a fair number of Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. 

This could be utterly hilarious and horrific at the same time.  If we can figure out how to tap into them and convince the wee data centre to let us use it’s processing power then it would allow you to fire up DLSS5 without seeing any performance degradation.  On the other hand, those RTX Pro 6000 are worth far more than their weight in gold and it would only be a matter of time before someone risked electrocution to harvest that treasure.

Then there is the security concerns, one of the major protections for data centres is that only authorized people can gain physical access to them.  The same is not true of a random backyard and wardriving could become a thing again, as hackers seek to gain control of these relatively easy to access data centres.  

You can read more about this bizarre pilot program here.