Noctua's Computex booth looks exactly as you'd expect it to, with the brand's signature brown color sticking out like a beautiful sore thumb in a tech conference that's bursting with RGB, bizarre PC cases, and massive demo spaces. But this brand's showing might be the most impressive I've come across. There are revolutionary cooling innovations to be seen, but I never thought one of them was going to be for my hand, in the form of a gaming mouse.
Honestly, I saw so many cool things at this booth that I'll need to write a whole other article just to touch on them all, but Noctua's upcoming gaming mouse is the thing that made my jaw hit the floor.
Made in partnership with Pulsar, it's a new edition of the Feinmann F01 mouse. It has a lightweight design (73G), and in case you're not aware of this particular rodent, its original model also has an open, cage-like design for its upper chassis. That means open space within the mouse for a lighter feel, potential for airflow, and a perfect testing ground for Noctua to do its beautiful, beige magic.
Inside the Noctua Edition of this mouse that's estimated to drop either in June or July 2026 is a tiny, upward-firing fan. To be specific, it's a tiny Noctua NF-A4x10 5V PWM fan, hooked up to a motion sensor within the mouse so that as soon as you start to move it around, it'll immediately start cooling the palm of your hand down. Take your hand off, and it'll spin down again, saving power draw for the next time you actually need it.
When I say I smiled from ear to ear upon testing that thing out, I cannot tell you the amount of giddy joy it gave me. I hate to admit it, but I have pretty clammy hands at the best of times - it's something I've always been self-conscious about. Having just tested a very expensive gaming mouse in the form of the Asus ROG Harpe II Extreme Edition, which does not respond well at all to sweaty gaming sessions, Noctua's little inventive gadget seemed all the more impressive.
It was so quiet as well; even putting my ear closer to it, any and all noise seemed to be blocked by my hand covering the fan. Noctua has allowed the fan speed to be controlled by the mouse buttons, or through a web driver in five distinct levels. So if you're in a heatwave in the heart of summer, or just in a particularly competitive round of your favorite game, it's all adjustable.
As a mouse, it has an XS-2 42000 DPI sensor and an 8K polling rate, as well as a standard USB port for charging and wired use.
As silly as this thing might seem, Noctua does not do anything by halves - I fully expect this to end up as a fan favorite when it becomes available. Not only is it a polar opposite to the RGB, gamer-looking mice on the shelves most of the time, but it's got the chops as a clicker to actually be what competitive gamers require. Honestly, cannot wait for it.
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