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Computex 2026 might house all kinds of fancy GPUs, handhelds, and gold-plated mice, but let's get down to what we're all here for, shall we: the humble PC fan. These under-appreciated little spinners do keep our entire gaming PCs—and therefore our entire hobby—churning along as it should, so credit where credit's due. And there's now a new and potentially very formidable player in this space: Thermal Grizzly.
I know as much because our Jacob Ridley, who is on the Computex show floor, has beamed us back some rather enticing pictures of the new Thermal Grizzly DeltaMate Purrformante fans. These are of course sat alongside Thermal Grizzly's cornucopia of water cooling and other gubbins.
The company hasn't made straight-up fans before, but it does feel in the right vicinity for the der8auer co-led business. That's because the Grizzly bizz has previously focused on careful engineering of all kinds of thermally related paraphernalia, from die cooling tools to thermal pastes and electrical monitoring devices. So why not add fans to the pile?
Well, one reason a company might hesitate is because fans are perhaps surprisingly difficult to get right. Noctua, for instance, took years to make the best PC fan.
Still, if anyone can stand a chance at giving Noctua a run for its money, it's Thermal Grizzly. Both companies have a well-earned reputation for focusing on serious, no-frills engineering.
But let's talk specifics. The DeltaMate Purrformante is apparently "optimised for low-speed, high static pressure applications." This presumably means the fans should be good to use in small cases or even as liquid cooling radiator fans. They also feature "integrated rubber decoupling for vibration isolation." Ie, they use rubber to keep them from rattling and vibrating where they're mounted.
That mounting system is apparently "hidden" and has "magnetic corner covers." This means you can slap multiple of the fans together seamlessly, which you might want to do because they are daisy-chainable "via custom USB interconnects."
There is, of course, RGB, too.
We can't say anything about it for certain until we've tested it, but competition from a company that seems to genuinely care about engineering performance can hardly be a bad thing. Well, not for us consumers, at least—I can't speak for other fan companies.
1. Best overall:
Noctua NF-A12x25 G2
2. Best midrange:
Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700
3. Best budget:
Arctic P12 PWM PST
4. Best RGB:
Corsair iCUE LINK QX120 RGB
5. Best budget RGB:
NZXT F120 RGB Duo
6. Best for radiators
Arctic P12 Pro
