Noctua NH-U12A chromax.Black, 120mm Single-Tower CPU Cooler (Black)

Substitui water cooling na perfeição.

Was expecting nhd15 levels of performance, at best. What I got was far superior cooling. I cant guarantee there wasnt an issue with the mount of my nhd15 to my i7-12700k, however, temps are a solid 8c cooler during Aida or p95 stress tests. You can tell this cooler was engineered very thoughtfully. Its densely constructed with a thick copper base. Heat pipes saturate every point of contact with the IHS. If I had to nitpick, the fans can get quite loud at full chat, but they perform excellently even at idle. Cant fault this cooler in basically any way, its very impressive. Installed in Fractal Torrent Nano.

For what you pay for this cooler, decent is not the standard when it comes to AM5 7000 series. 7900x to be exact. Im sure if youre running AM4 or last Gen Intel this is a great cooler its probably the best 120mm cooler for the situation. If youre running higher 7000 series CPUs spent that $120 towards a decent 360+mm aio and youll be just fine. I settled with a 420mm AIO, best move I made.

It replaced a Noctua nh-9Us. A necessary move upgrading from a R3 1200 to a R7 5800x. Temps went from almost immediate thermal throttle at normal gaming use and upper 70s regular web browsing (I have it set to throttle at 80c even though they supposedly run well into the 90s by design) to it hangs out in the 50s-60s. It will slowly creep up to 83 under a stress test when I temporarily turned the throttle to stock (which compared to reviews of the 5800x Ive seen, is really good, lots of low-mid 90s from what Ive read), but it has never passed 70 otherwise. Nothing against the nh-9Us, that kept my 1200 under 45c under any circumstance, its just the 5800x runs real hot and regularly clocks itself at 4.50+ instead of the 3.8GHz its rated for. Some sort of self overclock? Either way, this helps keep it at bay. Like I said, most situations keep to the 60s now instead of 80 or higher with the nh-9Us. And that cooler was 15c cooler than the stealth that came with my 1200. Never tested the stealth on the 5800x because it was already too much for the 92mm. Only reason for 4 stars is because its louder than my (admittedly single fan) 92mm same brand predecessor and cost over 100 bucks. Forgot to add that the system temps for both is ~30-35c, however probably due to more heat dissipation by new cooler, it now occasionally hits 40c. Current case is ThermalTake T-100 minitower iTX. Vertical config with heat exiting top of cooler to top of case Noctua 140mm fan for exhaust case fan.

It was great. Instructions are clear. Cooling is excellent. Quality is very good.

For almost two hours, my friend and I were not able to understand how to attach these clips. At one point, I thought of returning it, which would be very tedious, since we ordered it from overseas. However, my friend managed to get the clips in place. He said this is a very nice cooler and we must not return it. Anyway, I think it would be better to have 4 long screws with amortization for peace of mind. No complaints after we managed to set the clips in place.

Refroidissement excellent, design parfait, je recommande.

Best CPU air cooler on the market hands down. Whisper quiet, lowered my cpu temps by a lot, and installing it was super simple. Couldn’t recommend this product more.

Absolutely the case -- This is the second-best air cooler on the market at the current time, with only the Noctua NH-D15 upping it for first place, but at a much larger form factor. There is absolutely NOTHING bad to say about this fan. It may not have RGB lighting, but boy does it do its job. I am running a 12900K, which has a tendency to get particularly hot. But with this cooler, I havent even hit 150° yet, and I render video in 4K and game in 2K.

The noise level is quite low and the cooling performance you get out of this CPU cooler is fantastic. My one gripe with the product is that its a pain in the butt to screw the heatsink to the motherboard after mounting it. However, once that process is finished then the then the rest of the installation is simple.