The Noctua AIO will come in 240mm, 360mm, and 420mm sizes, all in the industry-standard 30mm radiator thickness. There's no specific price or release date quite yet, so keep your eyes peeled for any announcements.
If you’ve been craving an NF-A12x25 G2 , but don’t like the beige-and-brown colorway, your prayers will be answered: Noctua is unleashing the black variant of the NF-A12x25 G2 to the world in Q2 2026. Or at least, so says the roadmap.
The NF-A12x25 G2 is a fan that pushes the limits of what is physically possible in the 120mm x 120mm x 25mm form factor, and it does so by using Sterrox Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) for the impeller. This gives it extra tensile strength so that the blades don’t bow outwards at high duty, which is critical because the impeller is spaced at just 0.5mm from the frame.
But, the reason why it’s taken a while to come to market is that changing the color pigment in LCP has some funny ways of interacting with the molding process; you’d think, simply change the pigment, inject the substance into the same mold. Bob’s your uncle. But the reality isn’t that simple. With most fans, this wouldn’t be an issue, but due to the 0.5mm spacing, there is zero room for error.
As a wrap for Q2, Noctua is teaming up with Pulsar for a Feinmann Noctua Edition gaming mouse. The Feinmann is a rather unique mouse — it’s built with a magnesium alloy shell that’s filled with holes to deal with sweaty hands. If you’re someone who suffers from Trypophobia, this mouse isn’t for you. But Noctua saw it and thought, “Hey, we can put a fan in there,” and so they did.
Due to the magnesium alloy shell, the Pulsar Feinmann is ultra light, weighing in at just 46 grams. The Noctua edition is probably a few grams heavier – the fan that’s due to be mounted inside weighs just under 9 grams without a cable. Even with that, less than 60 grams would still be extremely light. For context, anything under 100 grams is considered light. For comparison's sake, the Logitech MX Master 4 weighs in at 150 grams.
The sensor inside the mouse is the PixArt PAW3950 , which offers a 39k DPI resolution, can cope with up to 50G acceleration, and tracks at up to 75 inches per second. With polling at 8,000 Hz, the Pulsar Feinmann is already an incredibly attractive gaming mouse as is.
Add some Noctua colorway touches, and this will be one of the most unique pointing devices to exist. Considering the original, non-Noctua edition costs $180, and adding some Noctua tax, it wouldn’t be surprising if this mouse costs north of $250.
As with other Noctua collaboration products, expect limited production of the mouse. The chances are that over time, this will gain collector value among diehard Noctua enthusiasts.
With all the releases slated for Q2, Q3 is set to be a little less exciting. We can expect a 140mm desk fan, a USB fan controller to pair it with, and last but not least, a Seasonic Prime PX Noctua Edition power supply.
The advent of the Seasonic Prime PX Noctua Edition is particularly interesting, as it brings a Noctua Edition power supply to a more mainstream power envelope.
Currently, Noctua is already selling a PSU in partnership with Seasonic – the Prime TX-1600 Noctua Edition , which, as its name implies, is a very beefy unit capable of delivering 1,600 watts nominal. That is a huge amount of power, and not everyone needs this.
The Prime PX HPD series will come in envelopes of 850 W, 1,000 W, and 1,200 W, which is much more appropriate for the masses.
To give some context to this statement, Even The Stout Owl, a fully handmade wooden PC with 100% Noctua G2 fans, which packs a Core Ultra 9 285K, 96 GB of DDR5 CUDIMM memory, 4 TB of SSD space, and a Noctua RTX 5080, only typically pulls around 500 watts under real-world loads. With synthetic loads, this figure gets pushed to 800-810 watts, meaning even that PC could make do with the smallest PSU of the lot.
But keep in mind that PSUs operate at peak efficiency around 50% load (generally speaking, this is a good rule of thumb to go by), which gives a good argument for slightly oversizing a PSU. Oversize too far, and you’ll end up with unnecessarily higher idle draw and never reach peak efficiency. For more on PSU bottlenecks and sweetspots, we've done our own testing last year with the RTX 5090 .
The Prime PX series is also a short power supply, barely fitting a 120mm fan. This makes them fit in pretty much all but the smallest cases. Of course, the Noctua-Edition Prime PX’s will also come with an NF-A12x25 G2 fan installed, a brown shroud with Noctua’s signature intake-noise-reducing shape, and Noctua-themed cabling.
One of Noctua's most anticipated products is the elusive thermosiphon cooler .
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cooling/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cooling/analyzing-noctuas-roadmap-new-psus-fan-equipped-mice-the-elusive-thermosiphon-and-disappearing-prototypes#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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