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

Hands down the best CPU air cooler design and performance wise. The NH-D15 is a tiny bit better at cooling, but is massive which would work in my setup. After dealing with mounting pressure issues with my 12700K and Asus Z690-A with 2 reputable 240mm liquid coolers, I decided to try this out. Cant ask for a better performance per square inch. This thing keeps my 12700K @5.0 GHz P-cores and 4.0GHz E-cores nice and cool averaging 65C during gaming. Definitely worth the extra cost.

I have always used noctua products. Typically a little more expensive, but you get what you pay for. The same applies to this cooler. Keeps my OCed 13600k @ 5.5ghz all clocks to around 65c while gaming, and around 35-40c while idle.

works amazing keeps Temps under control. I was running idol at 40 to 45 and when gaming 89 to 99 on my old cooler. but after installing this cooler now my pc is running 30 to 33 idol and 50 to 56 wail gaming. instalation is easy and great instruction. would recommend

Honestly there’s nothing I dislike about this system. It’s amazing!!! I’m running a 12th Gen Intel with this and it’s kept it cool under a long gaming sessions no problem, and I’m talking 10-14hrs no break.

Great cooler for anyone looking for something simple and easy to install. Keeps my 5900x idling at 35-45c reaching a max of 75c under 100% usage. The Noctua fans that this cooler comes with are so quiet at 100% power that I can only notice they make sound if I turn my corsair case fans off to listen, and thats without the included noise reducing cables. Highly recommend this over an AIO. I’m giving it 4 stars because of the lack of color options for the fans, and that the $20 chromax magnetic cover for the heat sink is a separate purchase when I feel it should be included in the already expensive price.

Had it professionally installed, as it was my first i9 installation with a non-Intel cooling fan. Runs like a pro. Will use same on all i9 installations. Dont want to take a chance of over-heating. Dont like to cook hot dogs over the CPU.

Easy to install used it with an asus Z590E mother board and works well and looks great with this mother board. Also running an intel i7 11700K processor and Corsair Vengeance RGB Memory. This fan clears my memory and really like the black color Very quiet at lower speed gets a little loud when running fans at high speed but is doing a great job of keeping things cool. The cooler is a little pricey but very happy and will be installing in second computer build. Using an old Corsair 200T case and clears the side window just fine. Radiator is much thicker than the Noctua NH-U12S and Noctua NH-U12S sat right up to my ram so returned it. Would highly recommend the Noctua NH-U12A Looks nice with my RGB fans and clears ram with heat spreaders and clears side window by about an 1.5 inches!!! Hope this helps.

Initially had gotten a unit that was broken through shipping. Luckily had gotten a replacement for it and have been fairly happy about it. There were still a few bent fins but, not hard bending them back and was only a couple of them.

i9 9900k idled at 100c with a kraken m22 AIO.

I bought this as a replacement of a failed AIO cooler in my computer. I have used multiple Noctua air coolers and they are all built like tanks. They are easy to install and I have to admit my computer is far quieter with an air cooler than I ever was with the AIO.