A Japanese Company Has Made Noctua-Cooled GPUs Themselves

A Japanese Company Has Made Noctua-Cooled GPUs Themselves

The collaboration between ASUS and Austrian cooler manufacturer Noctua has found themselves an unlikely opponent: a Japanese company which goes by the name Sycom has designed GPUs of their own that features the same Noctua fans with the cooling power to match, according to Videocardz.

While the ASUS card involves plenty of R&D hours and designs to make the design and engineering stick, Sycom’s methods are admittedly way more straightforward. Sycom teamed up with Nagao Industrial to develop a special frame to fit these standard Noctua fans in it. In theory however, it should fit just about any fan with reasonably standard designs so long as the sizes match. The GPUs in question are RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 Ti (in both variants) – using either the A12x25 LS-PWM or NF-A9x14 PWM fan to deal with cooling.

Sycom as a company is not an AIB partner of NVIDIA – thus, they get their supply of GPUs from various OEM partners. This “Silent Master” lineup, while touted to operate under 40dBA of noise, is considerably thicker than the standard counterparts. The RTX 4070 in particular measures at over 3 slots thick, while the RTX 4060 Ti measures over 2 slots thick.

As mentioned – under load, the GPU never exceeded 40dBA, and GPU temperatures are controlled within 65°C. The RTX 4070 fared even better results, with temperatures never exceeding 60°C in all conditions. That’s a noise level low enough that Sycom says once put inside a case, it’ll be silent enough to be considered nearly imperceptible. Keep in mind that Sycom never sells beyond Japanese market, so you’re unlikely to get one of these cards unless you’re specifically hunting for it in Japanese websites.

Pokdepinion: Hot swappable GPU fans seems like a neat idea – if we can slim down the thickness, that is.