Basically just the CPU fan, case, and PSU (if you’re lucky). If someone can figure out how to get Doom running on just those 3 things, young people will be able to ascend.
…yet
Also peripherals like DACs, monitors and such.
Thank God the prices of dacs and other audio gear hasn’t gone crazy… Yes they’re already expensive a lot of the time, but I couldn’t bear to pay a 200% premium when upgrading audio gear
Always a fan.
I am not an actual fan I am a human. But I do like their products !
Not an actual fan? This is not OnlyFans?
Noctua was expensive from the start already 😁
Fantastic fans though.
They’re expensive, but also the only manufacturer now making high-end 80mm fans with PWM.
And awesome warranty and customer support. Plus free mounting upgrade kits if you upgrade your CPU
Edit: the upgrade service:
https://www.noctua.at/en/forms/mounting-kit
I used it once, and I received the new mounting hardware without any issues
Cases are a bargain these days because no one has a use for them
They are also heavy and large, so expensive to move around and store.
these are the components that people cheap out on but give the most bang for the buck when you increase quality.
It’s the only thing keeping me cool.
I just had to buy a replacement 9800X3D yesterday because the previous one from early 2025 fried Saturday night. I paid $10 less for the new one, was very surprising. This post caught my attention because I had to remove and reinstall my Noctua cooler.
Bought a new pc today. It’s just a case packed with fans but it looks TIGHT.
I’m sorry to tell you but the copper for those heat exchangers just got more expensive.
Noctua coolers are already pretty expensive and not the pinnacle of cooling tech any more. If they went up in price, I think people would just go with a different brand. Like Thermalright, which “borrows” from Noctua’s designs but are a fraction of the cost. You can even get them in that ugly brown and off white color scheme.
Getting Doom to run on just 3 coolers would be pretty awesome, tho.
i mean, lets face it.
Unless you are overclocking, a Hyper212 will do almost the same same job, for 20-30 dollars, that a 120-190 dollar Noctua HSF will do. and the couple of degrees of difference you might have sure as fuck aint worth the 6x price increase.
and lets be real, if you are overclocking…why keep it always on? the CPU probably already boosts to those overclocked speeds under load anyway, so why add the extra stress and shortened life?
20 years ago I would understand why. 20 years ago I overclocked as well, because you got actual, legitimately, daily use improvement out of it… But with modern CPUs auto-overclocking themselves with boost (And it being under warranty to boot), I just don’t see the point anymore for everyday use.
I mean many modern cases have circuitry in them, such as RGB controllers or PWM fan hubs.
Let me remind you the requirements for DOOM modders to get DOOM running:
- Circuitry (optional)
I vaguely remember reading that they have literal ARM cortex chips in some of the most modern case RGB controllers
If we can get to an SPI and connect some kind of display, it’s conceivable that we could run DOOM, right?
People have been doing that already, on those LED fan displays, for example
I feel like the military intelligence industry community conspired to introduce RGB components so that windowed PC cases would become industry standard, thus making it easier for them to power up any PC that is connected to a power source via BIOS bypassing line of sight technology.
Is there a reason asides from branding that Noctua makes all of there gear in prune binge shit peuce? I’m not an RGB gamer boy, but I would love it if they had some options in black or charcoal.
They do. Chromax exists.
TIL! Thanks for the heads up.
Shut the fuck up you little fuck. They’re gonna be upping the price to $90/ fan blade and also firing all the people who make the damn blades if this gets out.
Okay this will probably sound dumb, but has anyone ever tried to use this in tandem with a liquid cooling system?
