Noctua was expensive from the start already 😁

Fantastic fans though.

I mean many modern cases have circuitry in them, such as RGB controllers or PWM fan hubs.

Let me remind you the requirements for DOOM modders to get DOOM running:

• Circuitry (optional)

Cases are a bargain these days because no one has a use for them

Always a fan.

Noctua was never cheap. They are gloriously overbuilt in a world of rifle bearing, built-to-fail bullshit at end of warranty schlock. Pay now or pay later.

Yeah because I could never afford a Noctua fan in the first place.

Maybe thats because anything from Noctua has always had stupidly high prices.

I'm a fan

hell yeah. got myself a new case, psu and a shitload of fans to prepare for my future graphics card upgrade. when the prices drop. a few years after the bubble pops.

I'm sorry to tell you but the copper for those heat exchangers just got more expensive.

It's the only thing keeping me cool.

...yet

I just had to buy a replacement 9800X3D yesterday because the previous one from early 2025 fried Saturday night. I paid $10 less for the new one, was very surprising. This post caught my attention because I had to remove and reinstall my Noctua cooler.

Noctua coolers are already pretty expensive and not the pinnacle of cooling tech any more. If they went up in price, I think people would just go with a different brand. Like Thermalright, which "borrows" from Noctua's designs but are a fraction of the cost. You can even get them in that ugly brown and off white color scheme.

Getting Doom to run on just 3 coolers would be pretty awesome, tho.

these are the components that people cheap out on but give the most bang for the buck when you increase quality.

Also peripherals like DACs, monitors and such.

Isnt that a Noctua cooler pictured?

At this point I'm expecting doom to run on ball on string attached to cup

Bought a new pc today. It’s just a case packed with fans but it looks TIGHT.

Don't jinx it! /s

Also, I'll jump on the Noctua fan train, love their stuff. I also recommend Be Quiet fans.

i bought it when the falcon guide told me to in 2012, thought it didn't work, bought another, got BOTH to work, and my setups have been cool ever since.

I can still buy AT era motherboard studs for the same price?

Shut the fuck up you little fuck. They’re gonna be upping the price to $90/ fan blade and also firing all the people who make the damn blades if this gets out.

Is there a reason asides from branding that Noctua makes all of there gear in prune binge shit peuce? I'm not an RGB gamer boy, but I would love it if they had some options in black or charcoal.

Meanwhile, people have bought up the remaining optical disk drives, making them more expensive.

Have CPUs or motherboards gone up much? At that point you just lack RAM. Can you boot an OS with just CPU cache?

Also if you want Doom, just about any second hand machine will be fine.

Peripherals are dirt cheap now. I remember when I built my first pc and watercooling would cost as much as the CPU and the case as much as the psu (and that was just a basic metal box, before windows became standard)

Been using my same hyper 212 from my old i5-750, now it's on my i5-8600k. Love it, makes a significant difference.

Too bad Doom:TDA is locked behind having specific graphics hardware :(

Okay this will probably sound dumb, but has anyone ever tried to use this in tandem with a liquid cooling system?

Noctua sent me new mounts for my 11 year old CPU cooler for free so I could put it in my upgraded desktop.

Real MVPs there.

The top of the market sucks but I've been building am4 systems for people for about 400$. 3700x or 5500 is good enough for most people and as long as they don't break their motherboard they can drop in an upgrade.

My fastest pc right now is probably my 5700x3d and 4070 super. So I feel like I have 2 years to find an upgrade.

PC hardware got more expensive (as well as everything else) only in terms of fiat notes. If you measure it in hard assets like monero, ₿ or gold it keeps getting cheaper.