Noctua NF-A8 FLX, Premium Quiet Fan, 3-Pin (80mm, Brown)

Used on Synology and it makes a noticeable difference.

I used this fan to replace the stock cooler in my Behringer iNuke 3000 amplifier. The stock cooler was extremely noisy, even at base load. I have the amp setup in a home theater app so the loudness of the stock fan couldnt be tolerated. I swapped the stock cooler for this Noctua. All I can say is WOW. The fan is completely inaudible at base line AND under load. Granted, I dont think it moves quite the CFM as the stock cooler, but Ive had no thermal overload issues so far. Id definitely recommend this for someone looking for a high quality cooler that is SILENT.

Great fans!

Love these guys, super quiet, ended up not being fast enough those for most 80mm application. Usually when I come across a 80mm its ether got to force air through a whole case (like in a server a NAS setting) or its used in the basement of a case (big area of empty space) this works better for the later because it will evacuate the hot air to a point, but its not going to do much to cool any components in there, more just like maintain the status quo. Thats to be expect though with a 80mm 2500 rpm fan. I will say it is so damn quiet at 2500 rpms. I use them in my gaming case to keep the harddrives from getting too hot. But its not fast enough for my nas build to cool off 8 drives. For that you need something that can force more air like 4000-5000rpm.

Lots of engineering, documentation went into this fan and the support is just as good.

Quiet and well made

Quiet, well built, comes with cable extender and rubber pins if you need/want to use those. I really dig the color scheme also. Id read that Noctua makes good fans and so far that seems to be true!

The fan really is a premium fan. It really is quiet with rubber cushions. I will always use this as a upgrade from now on.

These are the best 80mm fans you can get that are both quiet and have surprisingly good pressure, even at low rpms.

Noctua fans; pricey, but well worth it.