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

Recommend doing the install out of the case if youre building a new PC. Check noctuas page for motherboards that work with this cooler. Some of the heatsinks on Asus and other makers are too big and will not mechanically work with this air cooler. This cpu fan is new and out of the box works with lga 1700 ie alder lake without a special adapter which is really convenient. Some people with other fans have been surprised and had to wait for a free adapter kit or pay for one from noctua. Pcpartpicker is not yet up to date with compatibility issues so keep that in mind.

I bought it with ryzen 5900x and I love it.

Lo uso con un 13600k y anda perfecto. Solamente configurar bien la curva de temperatura en la BIOS para sacarle buen rendimiento al procesador. Hay que encontrar el punto de la curva de enfriamiento y se convierte en una bestia.

Im running a Ryzen 5800x in a cooler master nr200p with a panel extension bracket for the glass panel. Theres a ventus rtx 3080 sitting right underneath this cooler. The NH-U12A chromax.black is set in the intake configuration with 2 top lian li unifan sl120 fans for exhaust and 2 arctic p12 pwm slim fans for intake at the bottom. My pbo boost settings are PPT 125, TDC 82, EDC 130 , with frequency curves set with 2 best cores at -15 and all other cores at -30. Running cinebench 23, I have all cores at 4.625 and max temp never went above 79C. The fan curve was set to around 1750rpm at max above 75C. It idles around 37C. A week before I got this cooler, I tried the thermalright peerless assassin 120A. Its a nice svelte yet beefy dual tower cooler. I used lian li unifans on that instead of the stock ones. Unifans are rates at 2.50 H2O/, stock only had static pressure of 1.5 H20/ so I didnt even bother with them. I also used noctuas h2 thermal paste for both of these coolers. With the same pbo settings, in Cinebench 23, it had all cores at 4.5ghz and a max temp of 82C. Unifans were also set to 1750 rpm. The unifans were much louder at even 1500 rpms than the noctua fans at full blast. I was perfectly fine with the thermalright. Unifans looked really nice on it and putting 1 fan in the back instead of the front allowed me to still see the Corsair platinum dominator ram and performance was decent enough for this CPU in a sff case. But I was one of those who were waiting on the NH-U12A chromax.black for 6 months. So when it came out a week later, I just had to check it out. Im so glad I did. It is so much quieter, temperature drops down way quicker and idles 6C cooler. I shouldve tried the noctua fans on the thermalright heatsink but didnt real think about it. But considering the $46 thermalright price and $60 for the Unifans, youre right in the area of the NH-U12A chromax.black anyway. This cooler was worth the wait and the hype is real. Highly recommend.

Oui ce ventirad est cher, mais quelle bête. Tout respire la qualité et la robustesse, les finitions sont impeccables et le bundle vraiment tres bien fourni.

Lowered the temps on my ryzen 7 3700x by only about 5 degrees compared to the stock cooler. You can get coolers just as good for 1/3 of the price. It is very high quality and the silent, but it should be for the price, the fan splitter included was also broken.

The Stock Cooler on an Intel i7-8700 was not cutting it when pushed hard. When importing point cloud scan data the CPU would constantly hit thermal limits at 99-100c hindering performance and putting the hardware in a dangerous temp zone. The U12A keeps an average temp of 62c with individual core peeks at 78c during extended 100% cpu utilization. CPU performance now remains consistent and no more loud fan noise ramping up and down. Good investment to prolong the useful life of my existing hardware. The Cooler, Fans & contents of installation kit are exceptional and well worth the money.

Excellent all around cooler. Extremely good performance for such a small size. I love that it does not block the RAM, PCI slots nor the GPU; nor does it interfere with the case side panel.

After doing some research and trying to find a cooler that is not a AIO this fits the bill perfectly. it is quiet, easy to install, and comes with everything you need in the box for a LGA 1700 and you do not need to worry about reaching out the the manufacture for parts.

Primero, me di cuenta que la caja había sido abierta, la pestañita estaba un poco sobada lo cual ya me hizo sospechar que algo pasaría.