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Price: $26.95 MSRP / $22.43 USD (NCIX.com) / $25.80 CND (NCIX.com)

The Noctua brand has an interesting background. Noctua isn't really a single company, rather a group of specialized companies that are banded together with one goal in mind. That goal is to create "sound-optimized components" that rely on quality and performance instead of a slick marketing campaign to sell. The Noctua brand is comprised of a partnership of Rascom Computerdistribution Ges.m.b.H of Austrian decent and Kolink International Corporation which originates in Taiwan. This partnership is also integrated with the Austrian Institute of Heat Transmission and Fan Technology also known in their native language as ÖIWV.



All three groups in this partnership provide an integral aspect to the business as a whole. Kolink International is responsible for manufacturing the high quality and extremely advanced products while Rascom Computerdistribution takes care of distribution and ensuring that users are satisfied in their needs. The ÖIWV steps in by providing technical know-how and instrumentation that allows development of these extraordinarily components. To say this is a unique group effort is a slight understatement.



The Noctua brand is home to a number of efficient products aimed at noise-minded consumers. The Noctua NC-U6 is another example of one of these products. The passively cooled chipset heatsink is obviously silent in operation and is manufactured to provide effective and efficient cooling without adding noise to the system. The NC-U6 isn't the largest of passive designs out there but the heritage it comes from is huge so I expect big things from this little cooler.