Noctua NH-U12S chromax.Black, 120mm Single-Tower CPU Cooler (Black)

Es bastante compacto y al tacto se nota de mucha calidad.el ventilador apenas se escucha ni puesto al 100%. Bajó la temperatura de mi ryzen 5 3600 de 88° jugando (cooler stock)y sin tenerlo en modo turbo...solo a 3600mhz a 65° de pico maximo con temperatura ambiente de 27° y con modo turbo activado a 4200mhz. Me encanta el diseño en negro y no toca los modulos ram que para mi es un puntazo. Hay que tener cuidado y mano firme a la hora de atornillarlo ya que los muelles son duros y hay que hacer bastante presión.

Prometto che avevo un dissipatore scadente quindi avevo urgenza di cambiarlo.

Combined with the ProlimaTech PK2 Nano Aluminum Thermal Paste , cut down my wifes heat output from 90C to 42C at peak usage. Phenomenal, and breathed life into an old FM2+ chipset! (Note, similar review left on the ProlimaTech product as well, as both items are phenomenal!

The fan works pretty well but it is very expensive, especially if you want to customize it further, or add an additional fan like I did to get the temps where I wanted them to be. The Noctua service was lacking. Its nice to see some of the other big brands getting back into Air Cooling.

Easy to install, keeps my cpu about 10-20 degrees C cooler than the crappy thermaltake cooler I had before. And its quiet.

I ordered Noctua NH-U12S Chromax Black after doing some research pointing me to Noctua NH-D15 as the best CPU cooler. Every website listed NH-D15 as the best. It might possibly be the best but it is also huge and probably not needed unless you are overclocking which Im not. I accidentally found NH-U12S so after looking at the reviews and the size, I ordered it. I didnt even realize that I already had the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition RGB CPU Air Cooler, SF120R.

Recently I bought a prebuilt PC. In it, was a competitors 120mm AIO cooler. I figured, sweet, this will keep the 9700K, nice and cool. WRONG. I was hitting 90C-98C any time I tried to play a game. Changed out the thermal paste (twice), adjusted fan curves, checked drivers, PSU support, etc. Nothing worked. Picked up a new set of fans and it helped a little.

Ive been running a Ryzen 7 3700X with the stock Wraith Prism cooler. It was doing an okay job. Most of the time my max running temps were in the upper 60s or low 70s, with the occasional split-second spikes up to high 70s or even low 80s while gaming. So the stock cooler was doing well enough, and Im not OCing my CPU.

My CPU was getting too hot with my previous cooler and this one brought it down 20 degrees. It sits at 32° while idle and 62° during gaming. Im using a Ryzen 5600x btw.

Just the best