Season 7 of The Fan Showdown is here — and we’re kicking things off with a huge change. This season, builders are no longer limited to a single Noctua A12x25. Now you get two. Two fans. Twice the creativity. Twice the chaos. To celebrate the new rules, we’re going back to our roots and testing real cooling performance on the legendary Noctua U12A air cooler. But instead of slapping on two normal fans, I decided to start this season completely unhinged — by building a push/pull squirrel-cage style fan powered by dual A12x25s. Will it cool better than a traditional setup? Or is this just a 3D-printed disaster waiting to explode? Let’s find out…