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I have this cooler. It is a beast. Probably going AIO for my next build because 5090 is dumping to much heat into the heatsink and I want to get some fresh air to the CPU, but this a phenomenal air cooler.
Yes you can, but need to get an additional adapter
Gonna be selling mine soon. Never used it, so I'm hoping I can clear at least $100 after shipping costs. Yay for tariffs!!
yeah, with noctua, everyone buying it knows that they are paying a hefty premium. I paid like $80 for a single tower NH-U12s a few years ago, but it has definitely paid off. Specifically, that cooler I can use on any system since Noctua supplies mounting hardware, LGA 775, 1366, AM2-AM3+, it supports it all, and its "free" in the sense that you paid for that convenience up front. This is in addition to the high quality fans and stuff.
I have a nh-u12s, it's a bad cooler considering the huge price, in terms of performance it's no better than the venomous x from 2010.
They are price gouging. They are $125 ea when you buy a case of them. But depending on the processor its not going to be any better than the older model once you stick a better fan on it.
All that metal hanging off with the right kind of backplate is no big deal at all. I worried about this too until I tried it.I went back to my old Noctua Fan NH 12A or whatever when I bought this thing I didn't know about putting SVID behavior on Typical in the Bios.
Sure I get some hotter temps but at least my RGB Ram is visible I plan on upgrading to better Ram. I ran a 4 minute Intel XTU stress test I didn't get any throtting warnings and the highest temp was 83 c I was getting about the same on the Noctua G2 it has better temps but do you really want all that Metal hanging off the MB
A lot of it is going to be marginal since the surface area increase is not that much and the thermal paste composition is much more critical and there is a lot of junk that they sell in syringes now that remind me of the cheap putty stuff you had to add alcohol to to make it pliable again to spread it. What I find interesting in that department is if you apply the classic white stuff that is used everywhere else correctly their improvements they claim are marginal. But mass of heat sink with the stock metal back-plate is not a big deal. If the heat sink weighed 50Kg then there might be some worry about warping the board.I went back to my old Noctua Fan NH 12A or whatever when I bought this thing I didn't know about putting SVID behavior on Typical in the Bios.
Sure I get some hotter temps but at least my RGB Ram is visible I plan on upgrading to better Ram. I ran a 4 minute Intel XTU stress test I didn't get any throtting warnings and the highest temp was 83 c I was getting about the same on the Noctua G2 it has better temps but do you really want all that Metal hanging off the MB
Yep.. I like Thermalright haha..
This is fine unless you're one of those wastrels that likes to RGB their ram or have stupid heat spreaders. If you max out the ram the board can take you don't have to chase all the MT/s.
They don't really have any consideration for the board it gets put in.
This makes no sense, please elaborate.
You're not going to get 8000 MTs with 48GB DIMM, instead 6200-6400 if you're lucky. The fancy ram won't fit under the gigantic tower coolers either.
I will say I had a nh-c14s mounted to an Asus Z270 Prime-A for years and I most certainly did have some noticeable warping. Everything worked with it, but it was deformed noticeably.
On a cheap quality board like that, its mostly caused by uneven torque mounting. That would have a tendency to warp overtime anyways. Because they are about half the thickness of a quality board.
that seems fine, and normal use shouldnt ever get that high. maybe during game shader comp...
