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

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Noctua is the best, but unnecessary if you dont have an overclock-able CPU.

Incredible, excellent quiet cooling, but the 3 prong motherboard connection puts out only 30% fan power at 90 degrees C and 100% output (mining), causing computer shutdown when the processor overheats. The fans must use more power than anticipated by the motherboard. Dont plug it into the motherboards cpu fan connections, but get an adaptor to power it directly from the power supply, if you want to use your processor at 100% for mining or gaming. There are two fans to plug in, so get two 3 prong connectors adapted to a 4 prong molex when you order it, if you want the fans to run at full power for heavy computer processor use.

A very quick installed. Quiet Fan and more reliable than my liquid cooler.

I recently upgraded to an i9-9900k from an i5-9400F and was heavily leaning towards an AIO to ensure enough OC head room for the CPU to hit the high notes if the need ever arises. the 9900k is purported to be very OC friendly and is capable of hitting the high 5Ghz in auto settings with ease without really going past the 30 C mark (so far). Either I got lucky and hit the silicon lottery or Noctuas NHU-S12A cooler is stupidly efficient. Having no prior experience with their product since the 9400F was a fairly efficient CPU that didnt require any insane cooling since it ran reliably well with a Cooler master 212, I wasnt really sure what to compare.

Hands Down if your deciding from Water cooling to Aircooling - Seach on youtube, countless number of times Aircool has proven best.

Montage avec Ryzen, ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI), barettes Crucial Ballistix 3600, faut juste prendre le temps de lire la doc (une page dédiée à chaque processeur). Montage à plat avant de fixer la carte mère (je monte tout à plat, processeur, ram et ventirad pour éviter les flexions, sur certaines cm ça peut peut être poser des pbs). On peut facilement enlever les ventilateurs et les remettre ce que jai fait pour visser la carte mère au boitier. Pour la hauteur max des barettes cf spec des Crucial Ballistix ça vous donnera une idée, avec ce ventirad jai encore de la marge, assemblé avec les deux ventilateurs.

This thing runs my 5900X and 5600X amazingly cool. I came here from the scythe mugen 5 and boy does it make a difference. I dont think its just the fans either. The actual design on the cooler makes a huge difference. I used the NF-A12x25 fans on my mugen 5 and it did help but still felt like it wasnt adequate. However, on the u12A it feels like its been so optimized. I might officially be a noctua fanboy now.

I could have gone with the Chrome version, to make the PC more attractive. This giant brown cooler keeps my CPU nice and cool. I was about to buy a water cooler AIO, but the tests show this cooler can keep the PC as cool as water cooling. You cant even hear it while the computer is under load. Well packaged and arrived on time.