Noctua's... Hmmm, fans... s fans have long lamented the company's firm stance on color. Of course, the original beige and brown palette is still popular, but when the Austrian company began offering many of its coolers and fans in black, PC aesthetes hoped that white would soon be an option. However, according to a reply to a post on X, all development has been halted and there are no plans to resume.

Indeed, the fact that Noctua first announced a white-themed project in 2019, with little significant news of it coming to market, indicates that Noctua was not that keen to ramp up development. White PC components are a small niche compared to the vast sea of items painted in black, but vendors such as Corsair and Lian Li are happy to offer white versions of their regular models.

Noctua is a small company and its fan and cooler portfolio is similarly small, so it clearly felt that this project was not worth investing in, as can be confirmed by tweets:

For a long time, the best air coolers for CPUs and in PC cases For the quietest fan, Noctua was almost the only choice, and one of their heatsink and fan combinations was still at the top of our list as the best high-end air cooling solution.

However, Thermaltake and DeepCool also have coolers that rival Noctua's best in terms of performance, and in the former's case, their products are considerably cheaper. With the market becoming more competitive, it makes sense to discontinue development of white fans and coolers.

Or would it? I mean, how difficult would it be to develop a white version of a fan?" The color pigment does affect the physical properties of the plastic, but not to a significant degree, and since Noctua's design does not rely on ultra-high speeds to get the cooling right, there is no significant stress on the plastic Noctua's design does not rely on ultra-high RPMs for proper cooling, so there is no significant stress on the plastic.

The fact that Noctua took four years to reach this conclusion suggests that it was not particularly interested in this project in the first place.

In other words, the display of white fans and coolers at the 2019 Computex show seems to have been for marketing purposes, not serious development. At least in my eyes. If you've been waiting for a white NH-D15, it's time to look elsewhere, as I strongly suspect that Noctua will not be restarting development in the near future.