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

Super quiet. I cant hear it even when its at full speed. It dropped the ambient temp and the temp under full load by 20C over the stock cooler. I increased the PBO max on my 5600X to 4.85 ghz and it doesnt crack 70C at max load on all cores. This destroys any AIO on the market that Im aware of. Youd probably have to do a custom watercoooling setup to get better temps than this can provide.

Easy installation. Went from overheating after a few minutes (90°c +) to barely breaking 60°c. Very impressed.

I just removed my NZXT kraken 360 AIO becuase I really wanted reliability and simplicity. I put this Noctua NH-U12A Air cooler on my intel i9 9900k. Let me tell you it is amazing, ram clearance is perfect, cooling ability is great with 100% load at 4.7ghz on all cores. Everything they say about these fans are true they are very quiet compared to other fans I’ve owned. Highly recommend.

Works well and quiet on idle. Fits well so I can reach the gpu. I returned the bigger 140mm coz couldnt reach gpu, but this one is perfect.

Sono passato dal stock cooler di amd ryzen 5 1600. Lo stavo aspettando da un anno e devo dire che è valsa la pena.

i7 8700k

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

I have this on my Ryzen 5 5600X overclocking at 4.5mHz and my CPU doesnt get over 50C while doing stress tests. For the size of the heatsink and fan Im very impressed with how well it performs.

If youve wanted a Noctua CPU fan for as long as I have, just buy the damn thing. Just make sure you have a case big enough to use it and show it off. Way cooler and more unique than water cooling, in my opinion.

I rate it 5 by quality.