...The Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) prototypes exhibited at Computex demonstrated the progress Noctua has made in its ANC project with RotoSub®. While the 120mm ANC fan for watercooling radiators is still at an earlier stage, development on the 140mm CPU cooler project is almost completed. Based on the award-winning NH-D14, the upcoming R-ANC cooler promises to deliver substantial performance improvements over Noctua's current flagship model. Noctua is now working to implement the RotoSub® ANC system in mass production and aims for a release in Q2/Q3 2014...
I use the D14 2011 version myself (The older model, not this new upcoming revision of it.) and I can barely hear it even though I run it at 80% most of the time to improve cooling performance.
(The little fan on the motherboard however can be heard quite easily even at 50% power.)
A little bit off-topic but Noctua has unveiled their NH D15 CPU cooler.
(Aside from it's size and in part it's weight I really liked the D14, of course if these things start becoming even bigger then going for a water cooled solution might be worth considering.)
I haven't been impressed with Noctua to be completely honest. I bought their NH-u12p a couple years back and it was abysmal - lousy CPU cooling and the unit had to be RMAd twice. On the third replacement with the same >50c idle "cooling" (on a 3.6Ghz E7200 for fuck's sake!) I just gave up and threw the thing in a draw. It wasn't cheap either, so that was their one chance to impress me and they blew it - despite all the reviews and previews and user opinions saying it was the bestest thing in the whole wide world ever omgz0r
This DH14-2011 is actually the first Noctua fan I'm using, previously it was usually Zalman but I decided to try Noctua just because I heard a lot of good things about them, had to lower the RPM fan warning in the bios since the fan ran at such a low RPM and still cooled it down very well, even stopped at times so now just because I keep it locked at 60% speed.
(Which is a bit audible but it cools the CPU really well and I'm not too fuzzy about noise.)
EDIT: Of course that also mean I do not really know how their other products perform and spending upwards of a 100 dollars or so on a fan is still a bit steep.
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