whoo wud of thought of that

called 'Desert Owl"

Hoo would watch that?

It would be a hoot.

Ah...no

At my college we use noctua fans to cool our FSAE car’s radiators. I think they actually sponsored us

except for the brown color - yeah

Seriously though. If Noctua made cases, power supplies, AIOs, etc. in addition to a full line of Nvidia and AMD GPUs, that would be amazing

Yes please

@@akumarus keep the color and troll the shit out of everyone!

Built in the Fractal Torrent.

Custom build the case. Get a sheet metal case and spraypaint or dip it in noctua colors.

Yes please the dream

And I WILL dislike it if it doesn't have the original colour theme.

Steampunk, with Brown and burgundy colortheme

Lol I want to see that video now

@@jasonstephen7564 That’s just what Linus posted this afternoon.

Thats What i have been doing all these years

@@jasonl5433 ^^ This. When the MSI 7950 fans died on one of my Crossfire boards, I strapped two NF-12 variants on it, put it in the second slot and called it good. I knew it would work because I had done this on a previous generation NVidia boards in SLI. As a test, I ran one 7950 by itself with this fan configuration and it outperformed anything I had seen tested and was in liquid cooling territory. A side mounted case fan blowing directly over the two GPUs in Crossfire also helped. Hitting 7970 performance was even easier although the stock fans would do it with a noise penalty. I had intended to put the boards under water but there was no point with this approach, and noise was far less than the stock cooling solution. Brackets to pull this off have been on the market for many years. It is not a new concept, just not something the major manufacturers have adopted. There are slim fans that work well too (15mm Noctua come to mind).

It's a common hack even in small form factor PCs. Deshroud the GPU and just put 2x120mm fans right by the heatsink. Some cases like the NR200 you don't even have to ziptie the fans, the case naturally puts the fans right there. Can get very competitive temps or even better than ATX builds. No deadspace, all airflow.

I wonder if they saw the memes and said "f-it" or was this yhe plan all along

Some ppl dont like the brown on Noctuas. I think it gives them character. I like it.

@@aaaaeeeeffffeeeekkkkssss i generally just dont like the colour brown. I need rgb fans anyway so its a shame noctua dont make some to satisfy a wider aspect of customers. I would definetly buy noctua rgb fans!

@@aaaaeeeeffffeeeekkkkssss yeah I agree, you can also stick any 120mm fans in there

I bought all chromax fans for my latest build but if I had this GPU I would have happily gone with the brown versions. I think the biggest issue for me is clashing color schemes. Honestly, the thing I would be most concerned with is that they would never make another collab card again and then I'd be stuck with brown fans with a colorful and/or black GPU and would have to get chromax ones later anyway.

Actually, the Asus Strix branding from a few years back had a robotic owl as its mascot.

Are they particularly quiet owls?

@@Fattoxthegreat Ever been overtaken by an owl in the night time? i could hear it 1-2 meters away.

@@Fattoxthegreat An owl that's not quiet isn't going to eat.

@@Fattoxthegreat Yes, they hoot quietly, just like the fans.

It is very cool but 4000 series cards already have great temps so kinda overkill. Still pretty cool

They also have a Chromax Black NH-D15. I just bought one for my build.

@@JeffRyman69 yes, they do black colored fans, but their signature colors are that brownish/tan, pretty much like Nvidias color is green, Intel blue, etc.

@@Aki_Lesbrinco Yes you are correct. If the black version were not available I would happily have used their well-known brown cooler.

The "odd" coloring is two-tone brown because its the colors of the Little Owl (Athene Noctua). Noctua's logo, company name & coloring scheme are based on that owl.

​@@JeffRyman69 Just a heads up I have 4 none chromax with the oldest being 7.5 years old with 65000 hours on it. They really make the best fans and I will use nothing but Noctua anymore. You get used the the brown mostly because I never have to mess with them and I do not care what color they are because I never see them.

Your name is familiar.. from the 3d printing discord maybe? :P

imagine a fractal torent noctua owl edition

Maybe power supply should be next

@@spawntohell the airflow would be too powerful, it would take flight

Yeah it's just too bad that no one but YT influencers/reviewers and scalpers are the only people that will ever get one.

Depends. It's usually 25C for scientific testing, at least in chemistry.

@@thecoffeegod Because chemists are wimps?

@@hunzhurte 25-27C helps in Kelvin calculations, mostly.

Jay's in SoCal, 68F is like 0Kelvin to them

@@thecoffeegod not just in chemistry, across most of science room temperature is almost always considered to be 25°C.

Soo... Did you pre order 😂?

Tis brown and beige muck eww don't worry

You better grab that mud-brown GPU

So what you're saying is... You need it?

I NEED IT

this ^

All Brown HOOT HOOT Build

My most recent build has a Noctua Cooler and all Noctua fans, does that count? I guess I should get this GPU? (LoL where would one get a GPU???)

YES PLEASE

Jay should work with a case vendor to get case with the beige color of years past but with the design queues on latest cases???

Umm excuse me but the rock I've been living under is dark, and its pro. Also it be quite!

a Dark Rock maybe! :P

@@wadud92 Nice!

Asus has used Owls in their strix products too. Also, for those nerds out there, Athene noctua is a species of owl.

@@tristanwelsh2282 I just realized how it all makes sense, cause owls basically silently cut through a cold night's air, hunting efficiently with great performance. 0v0

@@tristanwelsh2282 isn't strix the latin word for owl?

Noctua is a species of owl, so no. Pretty sure it's on purpose.

@@tristanwelsh2282 Even nerdier: "Noctua" is Latin for night bird or owl. Athene is Latin for Athena: Greek goddess of wisdom, who's symbol is an owl.

Heck ya. We need more people to refuse paying scalpers

All my mates bully me for having a brown noctua fan, instead of an aesthetic aio cooler, my temps are better so fuck em

I like this card because I can stick in it my rig and not worry about it for 10 years. Low heat =long life.

@@typingwords You can always get a non transparent case, and then you wouldn't get any critics !

@@typingwords Ask them when they're going to get proper water cooling, that'll show 'em 😋

i feel like they did it more like a meme thing for the lols. they know that black would ve been the better option.

Name of the game is brand recognition. As soon as someone (who knows about PC fans) spots the brown and beige scheme, instantly identifies it with positive qualities: "Noctua, great brand, enthusiast, silence, performance, quality". I don't think it's a meme but a (quite good IMO) strategy.

Yep, I love it, on some other GPU's that the fans failed, I have ziptied normal fans to the card and gotten better cooling and lower noise, just plugged into the mobo fan header and let that fan ramp with GPU temp.

Noctua claims that the brown color is due to the material they use on their fan blades. It's a lot harder to achieve same results with black color.

@@kimnice I believe thats correct. The brown fans are quieter than the chromax ones

it would also fuck up sound an cooling, and decreases life spam of the fans...

@@KenTheSteak Eh not if you balance it. ;d

stick some good old ippc-3000s in this baby and I a 3090 will have plenty of oc headroom with this

Zotax tried some years back but it never caught on

Yea, it is pretty common for fans to be the first components to wear out on a gpu

He could literally just pop of the shroud and replace them with grey fans.

How about 2 blowie matrons

Or chocolate. Or together with green (earth and plants) Or... (Just google things that are brown)

@@poldelepel dirt

Yes, that would be perfect for this card.

The Outhouse build. Somehow that doesn't quite sound right...

Wait if it was a ups card... wouldnt it come damaged and a week late?

I kind of wish they had gone with the browns they use on their fans instead of making the shroud a darker brownish red

Agreed, it really caught my eye.

Let me release you of that burden, hmmmmm? 😅

@@panda8bamboo161 lol exactly methinks I'm fine with a color-mismatched 3080 dont hate me tho,it's the only decent financial decision I made last year

@@mapsofbeing5937 Awesome name. Reminds me of Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson. Maps of Being is such a good name. Props to you for it ! 3080 is a sexy card. Enjoy it ! I still remain faithful to my GTX 1060 6GB, still carries me with grace. I still wait for the GPU market to stabilize. Out of stock and prices are such all over the place, is too chaotic. Have a wonderful day !

@@Feezwa thanks, I'm glad the name sparked something, it's the hopeful aim! Found Peterson late in my game and realized I'd read most authors he quoted, tip of the hat to him indeed, I might have saved 10 years if I read him earlier, but in the end it's about walking the path either way. As they say in Spanish, "Caminante, no hay camino, se hace el camino al andar" (Traveler, there is no path, the path appears by walking) Best wishes!

calm down there Mr.Cowboy

no graphics card series ever had coolers big enough for this, but since 30 series cards are so massive it became realistic to stick 120mm fans on them. It also helps that nvidia's in-house design for these cards were short and wide

@@EMETRL absolute nonsense , linus even madea video zip tying noctua fans on the 2000s series cards. Its not about size but price

@@C3l3bi1 This, and even if they're too small for 120mm fans, there're 80s and 92s aswell.

I hope Noctua and Asus make more in the future. That petformance is insane.

People have done this before by deshrouding and just using Noctua fans

I was gonna post this. You posted your card on reddit right?

This man's a Mcguyver right here

Yup, me too, but without zip tie, they are on Morpheus II

Didn´t post it to Reddit since I didn´t want people to know of Frankensteins monster in my PC case

I have 1070 with an Arctic heatsink and three NF-A9 Chromax, only ever need to run them at 700 RPM, and keeps the card at 51C.

This would open a whole new market, which would be good.

It's more difficult to standardize, in part because memory configurations tend to vary a LOT from model to model, and generation to generation. However, it shouldn't be hard to at least enable easy mounting for standard sized 92mm or 120mm PC fans. I would love it if 120mm case fans became the standard for a lot of videocards.

Underrated comment!

hahahahahah god

Well done Sir, well done...

Didn’t the old strix I think 9 series had a owl looks?

Noctua is actually the little Owl on Athena "Athene noctua" (Little Owl in English)

LGR, chanting: woodgrain vinyl wrap, woodgrain vinyl wrap, woodgrain vinyl wrap

Wow, that's an awesome idea!

I remember a build where he used a wine barrel as a case. I think that this would be perfect for his build

I Think DIY Perks and This Does Not Compute have done something like that a few times.

@@triadwarfare I saw a Whisky barrel build with a Woodford Oaked bottle as the coolant res, copper pipes and it was amazing.

Still looks like sheit if you build with a cream/diarrhea sheme

dead space build

Does it look similar to this 3070 one that Jay got here? Four slot card? As Jay said, “I heard you wanted a little card with your cooler!” 😄

@@jimmyrichards5595 I actually never measured, but i think its like a 2,5 slot card, but it looks really thick

@Jonxu Ryu Im gonna make a short video and upload it for you 👌🏽

My WC 2070 runs cooler....

Water cooling can do better. Most people just use shitty fans

@@mattymattffs yeah you really can’t compete with water cooling but AIOs need to step up their game!

As an ex 970 strix owner it does indeed

Strix and Noctua literally mean "owl" in Latin. I'm surprised it took them this long to collaborate.

@@romxxii wow

I installed the hybrid kit on my FTW3 Ultra. Does the job very well.

Cool thing is you could also add fans from other companies (not that you'd want to).

It may be due to the color psychology; "Some of the key characteristics associated with brown in color psychology include: A sense of strength and reliability. Brown is often seen as solid, much like the earth, and it's a color often associated with resilience, dependability, security, and safety." -the internet

*boom* *boom* i fix it *another boom*

same mate i like his ad,s so cool.

Instantly after "I'm playing World of Warships" I got an yt ad yelling "Why aren't you playing AFK Arena?!"

He actually really play it even on stream and he can get really into it haha

I'd say the ifixit mini is the best. This man should be in charge of official commercials for all these products

I understood that reference

😔

Also my exact thoughts.

Yup yup. But they have to reveal it. It all sucks

This card had paper launch in Sweden

@@Gamingtechgg i didn't see come up in the UK

That’s pretty stupid because as you can see the cards are very thick and most people don’t need cards like this so it’s better if more companys produce their own aftermarket coolers for reference cards like Arctic does

@@stiegelzeine2186 I have not seen a single good aftermarket airflow-based GPU cooler. Either they are made for a /very/ specific card, or they only cool the gpu core and maybe the memory - neglecting vrms and other components. If every card's cooler was made from the factory to mount standard fans, it would make GPU cooling much better overall. Most people also only have one PCI card installed at a time - a GPU. Might as well make use of the extra wasted space below it. The thicker the better imo. Most atx cases have 7 expansion slots - so that's 5 expansion slots of wasted space in most PCs. You could fit a 120mm tower cooler there if you wanted to, and they should.

@@stiegelzeine2186 Well its not stupid, its doing the reverse of making a 3 fan card. Instead of being longer, its thicker with better cooling and quieter.

Not just for NVIDIA and Asus ether if they did something like this my XFX 6700 would go good Godlike

I have a zotac twin edge oc and its really *really* loud. I absolutely want a noctua replacement shroud for it

I have a zotac 3090 and I would buy an noctua cooler for it in a heartbeat.

Lol

that's Jay releasing his inner Marine. Hoo AHH!

I fuggin hate the way he pronounces it, but I'm glad he gives them love. Noct-you-ah gang for life!

I noticed he pronounces Jensen strange too. It's hard to describe, but I always wondered if anyone else noticed.

It's been 30 seconds and I'm fkn plastered. You ruined my weekend

Front mounted GPU incomming PCIe riser to the actual slot and mount the card like a 360 radiator XD would be fun to watch tho

I'm just trying to imagine this not being vaporware that only reviewers and scalpers can get at anywhere in the same realm of price as MSRP.

@@jtjones4727 it most likely will be, just like the mining cards that noone can buy but nvidia claims exists but only reviewers knows about.

Bro it would be so big you would have to install a support bracket just so it's big balls Dont snap the mobo

@@moncery_na bigger is always better as they say in 'merica.

If they dont sell out in .0000001 seconds im going to try to get one too.

I don't hate it, I just don't like that it never matches anything else

@@kaldo_kaldo Wouldnt look terrible in a black case with alot of brown noctua fans

I like it too.

Same here. I grew to like it after 2 APU builds I made and it feels like a badge of quality when you see it.

Do a ghetto mod.

not gonna lie, that idea of modularity is cool, i dig it

Why... do you not see how massive this thing is, you start limiting the cases this thing can fit in, you start limiting the motherboards you can use with it.

@@Kirinketsu_ You could always screw on the garbage thin profile fans if you REALLY want them....

​@@Kirinketsu_ There are a bunch of people in ATX cases where the only thing they have plugged in their PCIe is a GPU. Removing the shroud from the GPU and using standard 120mm fans is also essentially what many people do in the CoolerMaster NR200 anyway. That's an ITX case. And as I said, you could still use thin fans for a triple slot card like the more powerful cards are anyway. Also, you don't have to do that. As I said, this would just be an option. If you want a card with a shroud I wasn't going to stop you. I never said to stop making cards with shrouds. Just give us the option to remove the shroud and install standard 120mm fans or let us just buy a card without a shroud. The only difference is that the box would have to make it clear a few times that the end user is responsible for installing their own fans. I am now realizing why they don't sell GPUs without fans. Users will completely ignore the part where it says they need to install fans and then blame the company for releasing a GPU that doesn't work... Anyway, they could still put 120mm fan mounts on the cards for the more advanced user.

How would that be environmentally more friendly ? You would still have to order can, which come in a box with plastic and everything. Anyway that could be a product I'd buy (if there was not a shortage).

New Tundra 1794 edition?

I have a PC case made from a 1939 Philco radio. I swapped out all the externally visible fans to Noctuas, and they look really good with the wood case!

why would it be? better fans = better fans. on hotter cards with big coolers the performance delta would probbably be higher