Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 chromax.Black, Low-Profile CPU Cooler for AMD AM4 (Black)

I purchased this to go in a mini ryzen 5 PC. The performance has been top notch, keeps my temperatures well within reason and does it while hardly making a sound at all. This cooler has met and exceeded my expatiation with its outstanding level of quality and performance. The black version also looks super cool

Excellent cooler. Im so glad I purchased this. I thought I was going to need to buy some thermal paste but noctua actually included a LARGE tube of thermal paste. Excellent!!! Easy installation, cool temps, and the black looks nice!

this small ff cooler packs a punch

Cant go wrong with a Noctua cooler, this one is super quiet and keeps temps low under a decent load. Only complaint is the installation of this one, you have to remove your motherboard if you are adding this to an existing build and it requires you to kind of blind align the cpu and heatsink to get the screws to thread from the back.

System: Gigabyte X570 I Aorus Pro, AMD Ryzen 5 5600g, 32gb G-skill Ripsaw Ram 2400Mhz, 500 gig PNY SSD and 1T WD SSD. Ram at advertised 2400Mhz and cpu over clocked at 4ghz. Heat problems right off the get start. Turned ram down to 2133 and cpu to stock 3.9 and heat problems still, exchanged out with stock heat sink and fan, turn ram back up to advertised and over clocked the cpu and no more heat problems. Gave 2 stars because the Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 chromax Black, Low-Profile CPU Cooler for AMD AM4 just would not do the job. Made from great materials. I will save for my next build which is going to be an F2+ socket, AMD 6800k down to a mini itx case. Ill update if it keeps that one cool.

I purchased this initially for a 3600x which I exchanged for a 5600x for a SFF build (which turned into a micro ATX build).

Extremely silent.

Very nice in person wasnt expecting something so well made

What more is there to say? Every other fan I looked at had reviews comparing the fan to Noctuna fans. Skip the hassle and just buy Noctuna.

Lowered my temperatures right away, from 42 idle on stock cooler to 36C on my Ryzen 5 5600G and while gaming my temps went down from 86C to 69C, it would be even lower if I hadn’t decided to keep the build in a tight space.