NV-FS1 Desk or Room Fan

The main product from the Noctua Home line is their NV-FS1 which is their desk/room/multi-purpose fan set. This is the product that everyone saw with the Noctua Home introduction. It is also the biggest box out of all of the lineup and it didn’t get the black box treatment, this has its own dedicated box design. The front of the box has a large picture of the fan across the middle with the black to grey fade in the background. Up top the model name is in a small font with the more descriptive name being the big visible font. The side of the box has a specification listing on it. The left side has three pictures that show off the way the airflow amplification works. Then on the back, there is a small picture and a copy of the product description. When you open the box up there is a cardboard flap holding everything in place with a window letting you see inside. The fan sits down inside and under that is a tray with all of the accessories inside, this has a line drawing of the fan on top as well as a listing of the accessories inside.

The NV-FS1 comes with a few different accessories for it to work. All of these we have seen with some of the other products already touched on. You get the NV-PS1 power supply along with the three different swappable AC adapters to make it work in most locations around the world. Because the NV-FS1 comes with the NV-FM1 stand, you get the same bag as the stand when sold individually. That includes the four long zip ties, four wall anchors, for screws to go with the anchors, and four fan screws which in this case you don’t need because the fan is already installed but I’m guessing they just keep the bag the same to keep things simple. There are two cables, one PWM 4-pin extension cable with a female PWM connection on one end and a male on the other end then you also have the barrel to 4-pin adapter that adapts the barrel connection from the power supply to your fan.

The only accessory that is unique or different with the NV-FS1 that didn’t also come with one of the other Noctua Home products is the in-line fan controller model number NA-FC1. This isn’t new or exclusive to the Home lineup, this is a product that they have had around for a while, in fact, I took a look at one back in 2017. That said it does play an important role with this setup, allowing you to control the fan speed/noise. It has PWM 4-pin fan connections on both ends with one female and one male connection so you can plug it in line with this or any PWM fan. There are two status lights, one amber and one green. Then there is a button on it as well. The button and the green light work together, the button turns on no-stop mode to keep the fan from dropping below 300 RPM. The amber LED changes brightness depending on how far you turn the speed knob in the middle to give you a visual indication of the fan speed.

Then we have the NV-FS1 itself. This combines a few of the other products into one design. You have the NV-FM1 Stand and with it a Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM chromax.black fan mounted to it. The NF-A12x25 is Noctua’s best fan, it runs anywhere from 450 RPM and 2000 RPM. It has SSO2 bearings and at full speed they have it rated at 22.6 dB. It’s Noctua’s next generation fan and uses LCP to keep the fan as ridged as possible so they can have a tighter clearance between the fan and the housing. The fan then has the NV-AA1-12 Amplifier mounted to the front and on the back they have a wire fan grill just like on the NV-FS2 Fan. The combination of everything gives the focused airflow that we spoke about when talking about the NV-AA1-12 Amplifier and the multiple mounting options with the NV-FM1 Stand. It looks like a desk fan and that was part of their goal, but the entire Noctua Home lineup is also designed for other situations where you would want to keep equipment cool while keeping noise under control like with AV equipment and consumer network equipment.