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I imagine a white PC fan would look terrible if not cleaned daily or used in a room with very filtered air.
by Zak 5mo ago
I imagine a white PC fan would look terrible if not cleaned daily or used in a room with very filtered air.
- nerdsniper 5mo agoI 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.
- Zak 5mo agoI suspect there's a reason brown is Noctua's signature color.
- layer8 5mo agoDust can actually be more visible on black than on white.
- malfist 5mo agoBlack cars show road dust immediately. White cars don't. I image it's similar for computer fans
- kevin_thibedeau 5mo agoWhite cars get filthy just as readily.
- vladvasiliu 5mo agoWell, 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).
- ufocia 5mo agoIf it were about performance and not marketing, they'd try to optimize for resistance to dust adhesion and resource consumption: energy, cost, durability, etc.
- esseph 5mo agoOkay, 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?
- jaapz 5mo agoWhat makes you think they don't?
- devilbunny 5mo agoSilver 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.
- cluckindan 5mo agoThey never did catch you riding dirty.
- devilbunny 5mo agoI don't know why someone downvoted you. For an offtopic joke, this one is pretty good.
- esseph 5mo agoNoctua also makes silver fans
- Aurornis 5mo agoAll 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.
- esseph 5mo agoCommon? Less than 5% of the market. Is that common?
- SAI_Peregrinus 5mo agoThey typically don't require any custom one-off parts to be made, just mass-produced off-the-shelf stuff, so they're common enough.
- esseph 5mo agoIt seems that common means something very different to you and I. Less than 5% of something is common? To me that sounds like the definition of uncommon!