Thermaltake Copied Noctua?

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What happens when you copy the best PC fan design in the world?

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[PegassiLampadati]

I mean "take" is written in their name 🤷‍♂️

[sakkidis]

Fingers crossed, noctua rushes to release black Noctua A12x25

[danohaffey]

I mean if ur gonna copy someone's homework pick the smartest kid in the class

[abshope]

In Taiwan, there’s a saying that “buying from TT (thermaltake) will cause you to T.T (resembles a crying emoji)”. Sums up how infamous thermaltake is

[vjn]

The biggest thing that stands out is the difference in expected lifetime and the warranty. Whereas the Toughfan is only rated to last 40, 000 hours, Noctua’s spinner is rated to almost a four-fold of that, and it comes with an impressive six-year warranty. It’s clearly a fan that’s intended to last a few builds.

[conrl]

Thermaltake: can I copy your homework?
Noctua: yeah just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied

Thermaltake:

[chairs-dimension]

Maybe Thermaltake can take another page out of Noctua's book and copy their good QC and customer service as well as copying their products.

[muhammadzinc]

Now watch Noctua release a black color fan in span of weeks after mauling over it for years :)

[CarthagoMike]

As we Dutch say: "Better to properly steal something than to design it badly."
_"(Beter goed gejat dan slecht bedacht)"_

[MrUli]

I saw these fans by pure chance and decided to try them out for my latest build. At least in my case there was no diference in performance between my noctuas and these toughfans. They push lots of air and are whisper quiet. Have them in push/pull set up. Definetly reccomend them for people who cant stomach the noctua color scheme.

[suprltve]

thermalTake designs from other companies

[screes]

Thermaltake has a VERY long history of copying other people's products. It's the reason i refuse to buy anything from TT.

[poot]

This is what happens when Noctua doesn't respond to the market in time, someone will come along and eat your very well made lunch.

[TechLevelUpOfficial]

i actually remember commenting on their FB post when they revealed this and said hey if you can't beat em copy them lmao
the admin didn't bother replying but people knew what i was talking about lol

[KAAAARP]

That small difference at 1000rpm is actually what kills these thermaltakes. That rattling is what annoys people way more than anything.

[MarkLangdahl]

I think I would go for the P12... I really like the look and as the performance is very close I prefer to not support a copycat. Also my current Arctic Freezer 33 eSports One CPU cooler does make me slightly biased towards anything Arctic.

[joejia]

I feel like some dude bought a NF A12, scanned it, re-built it in cad and gave it to the TT engineering team.

[gctdonyre]

3:25 Yeah, that rattle is a no go for me. That might as well be a AIO pump noise.

[yasunekanayake]

I mean, the a12x25 looks pretty similar to the gentle typhoon which has been around for ages at this point. For some reason Noctua though that it was a good idea to basically charge double for that fan here in Oz. If I can get 2 toughfans for 1 nf-a12, that's an easy choice.

[jadoei]

Thermal take your design, first caselabs, now this. Oh well, at least it's a clear brand image :P