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Jacob Ridley

'Still a slight risk of critical deformation': Noctua isn't happy with its next-gen 140mm fan so it's pushed until Q2 2024 at the earliest

Noctua's next-gen 140mm fan on display at Computex.

You're going to have to wait a little longer for Noctua's next-gen 140mm fan. Despite positive signs out at Computex this year that had suggested the fan would head to mass production by the tail-end of 2023, that plan has been scuppered by late issue. This means it has to go through a lengthy validation process all over again, and now we're looking at a Q2 2024 release, if not later again.

Noctua pushed back the fan's release date on its product roadmap around a month and a half ago, but I've reached out to company spokesperson Jakob Dellinger to find out exactly why.

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