Noctua (company)
Noctua is an Austrian computer hardware manufacturer of CPU coolers and computer fans primarily for the enthusiast market. The company was founded in 2005 and is a joint venture between the Austrian company Rascom Computerdistribution Ges.m.b.H., established in August 2000, and the Taiwanese cooling specialist Kolink International Corporation. Noctua is a highly regarded manufacturer in the enthusiast market and has, according to their official website, received more than 3,000 awards for their products. The name "Noctua" refers to the scientific name of the little owl, "Athene noctua" (hence the owl found in the company's logo), which  in Greek mythology stands for intelligence and wisdom. It's also known for its soundless flight and the effective, economical use of its powers and precise attack. Products. Noctua's product line includes: Design. Noctua's computer fan products are well known for their characteristic brown and beige colour scheme, which has divided opinions among customers and enthusiasts. The colour scheme has been criticized, which "PC Gamer" called an "ugly... khaki-and-mud color scheme straight out of the '70s". Recently, a Noctua-branded NVidia GeForce RTX 3070 GPU (graphics processing unit) was released in collaboration with ASUS, and the  company has confirmed intentions to produce further graphics cards. The RTX 3070 they produced is quite massive, consisting of an enormous heatsink and two full-size A12x25 PC fans for an effective 5-slot thickness (actual thickness 4.3 slots). Because of this it has unparalleled cooling capacity and early reviewers noted that the cooler was more than capable of keeping up with an even higher-end GPU by far. In recent years, Noctua has produced more conventional colour schemes under their "chromax" line that includes black editions of their popular CPU coolers and fans, as well as various coloured heatsink  covers, cables, and anti-vibration accessories. Noctua announced all-black versions of their most popular CPU coolers in the "chromax.black" series for the first time at Computex Taipei in 2018, and formally introduced them in October 2019. Noctua also has a "redux" line that features reissues of some of their most popular fans and coolers at a reduced price, in a light/dark grey color scheme. Fans in the "redux" line lack much of the technology found in the standard line, feature Noctua's first-gen SSO bearing, and come with no accessories.