Noctua NH-U12A, Premium CPU Cooler with High-Performance Quiet NF-A12x25 PWM Fans (120mm, Brown)

This air cooler has far exceeded my expectations, I have a i9-9900k and I ran a stress test using AIDA64. my lowest idle was about 33 and highest was 75 at full load, (temps in Celsius). This air cooler is worth what I paid for. Also, I dont have much case fans yet, (still looking for ARGB fans). I highly recommend this Noctua Air Cooler. Since I live in southern California, expect hot ambient temperatures. There is clearance for my ram memory. (In picture attached, the ram closest to the air cooler is the first ram slot, dont mind the wires, Im still cleaning it.)

This cooler definitely performs very nicely.

Delivered fast, clear instructions and comes with all the needed parts. However, heatsink fins had some bents.

Awesome cooler, I replaced my H100 with this as I wanted a near quiet experience at idle.

I am running an AMD Ryzen 5800X and had the massive Noctua NH-D15S for a while and while it is an exceptional cooler its absolutely massive (I was only able to have one fan installed on it otherwise it would have blocked the GPU fan below (see picture).

Im sold to NOCTUA since Im able to afford-it. I Use only Noctua product in my last rig.

I had the NH-D15 before and whilst it was excellent at cooling, it was load at times. Due to changing the GPU to vertically mounted I had to change the cooler as the NH-D15 would no longer fit and tried the NH-U12A instead. I wish I had bought this to begin with! The cooling is a match for the NH-D15, but even though it uses 120mm fans instead of 140mm it runs quieter and there are no install problems from its size. Highly recommended

Sehr gut und laut wenig wie das Stille...

I used it for my pc. it is quiet and cool.

My Ryzen 5 5600x was consistently hitting 90-degree temps on AMDs stock cooler, even in undemanding games. But with this beefy Noctua cooler, I havent seen so much as a peak into 75 degrees, even on my most CPU-intensive titles. So it does its job beautifully, and its incredibly quiet to boot (even without the noise reducing add-ons). But I cant give this cooler the 5 stars it should otherwise deserve because of the absolutely abysmal fan-mounting solution. You get two 120mm fans that attach to the heat sink with incredibly flimsy aluminum brackets, such that when the case is stood up and the cooler is now parallel to the ground, the fans sag and actually hang about half an inch below the bottom of the heat sink. I imagine it has only a marginal affect on the cooling, but it looks and feels incredibly sloppy, especially for a $120 cooler.