Koelerfabrikant Noctua is ten years ago, founded as a joint venture between an Austrian and a Taiwanese company. The company, well-known by the use of the color brown, released in 2005, its first cooler.
In 2006, Noctua are first free mountingkit upgrade when the AMD AM2 socket introduced. Since then, the company continue to do that, also for Intel sockets, and so can the old NH-U12 and NH-U9 also now in combination with the LGA1151 platform of Intel can be used.
The name Noctua comes from Athens Noctua, the Latin name for owl. The company was founded in 2005 as a joint venture between the Austrian Rascom Computerdistribution Ges and the Taiwanese koelerfabrikant Kolink International Corporation.