Comment by Zak
1 day ago
I imagine a white PC fan would look terrible if not cleaned daily or used in a room with very filtered air.
1 day ago
I imagine a white PC fan would look terrible if not cleaned daily or used in a room with very filtered air.
Well, I have a bunch of lower-end black fans, some of them quite old, from before transparent cases were a thing. They're actually pretty much gray if I don't wipe them off.
Noctua's signature... brown-orange? Whatever that color is, it has the same issue. The blades are basically gray if I don't wipe them.
Haven't seen anybody start a gray craze, though. Though I have a grayish motorbike that also shows dust and dirt like nobody's business (it's a bike I use strictly on paved roads).
Silver is the ideal color for hiding dirt. I had a silver car once. Unless you drove it down a dirt road during a rainstorm, you basically never had to wash it.
They never did catch you riding dirty.
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Noctua also makes silver fans
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I found that having a positive pressure setup with an intake filter practically eliminated the dust buildup on my fans.
If it were about performance and not marketing, they'd try to optimize for resistance to dust adhesion and resource consumption: energy, cost, durability, etc.
What makes you think they don't?
Okay, I'll bite.
What is it you think they're doing wrong?
Does another vendor satisfy your criticisms?
Why do you think they don't optimize for things like performance when they often win performance competitions against other vendors for both sound mitigation and airflow?
Do you know they have a specific high efficiency line?
Have you ever had a noctua fan fail where you think another vendor fan would not have?
I have them. They get dusty at about the same rate as a pure black fan (which also shows gray/brown dust quite easily). I need to clean mine about every 6-9 months to keep them looking good enough to "show off". I generally run a Winix HEPA filter in each room of my apartment.
I don't think matte white is worse than matte black in terms of showing dust. They both do.
I suspect there's a reason brown is Noctua's signature color.
All white builds are common. There are a lot of white GPUs, motherboards, RAM, cases, and fans.
If you need daily dust cleaning you should invest in a room air filter.
Common? Less than 5% of the market. Is that common?
They typically don't require any custom one-off parts to be made, just mass-produced off-the-shelf stuff, so they're common enough.
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Black cars show road dust immediately. White cars don't. I image it's similar for computer fans
White cars get filthy just as readily.
Dust can actually be more visible on black than on white.