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Originally Posted by dygital

for anyone building a system soon, I'd wait and acquire these
Noctua's noise-canceling PC fan gets tested, drops twenty decibels -- Engadget
looks pretty cool, and should probably be even quieter than the nh d14s

Those are over a year away, no point in waiting that long. They look promising at 2500rpm with what looks like a similar design to the nf-f12s, but in the end they're still a 120mm fan from the looks of it. They should do alright on rads, maybe on an air cooler, but for air I doubt that whatever you put it on can beat the nh-d14 just because of the size of the bloody thing.