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

Bought this cooler for my daughters PC, we were upgrading from an i5 (stock cooler) to an i9 with this bad boy. Went to install the new processor and this cooler and the PC would NOT boot! I thought I had messed something up, went through the whole install again and same result.

At first I was going to do an AIO route for this second build and decided on the Noctua NH-U12A Chroma.Black for the simplicity and quiet operation to cool down my Ryzen 7 5800X.

Good quality, all black cooler, works fine for LGA1700. Keeps i9-12900K cool enough at stock setting, should be good enough for moderate overclocking. Easy to install, premium all black Noctua fans, just wish Noctua would include NT-H2 thermal compound instead of NT-H1. Strongly recommended if you want non-RGB, high performance air cooling for your CPU.

Loud, ineffective. As simple as that, get the NH-D15 if it fits your case. Huge difference.

I have a 9900k running at 5.2ghz on all cores and the U12a keeps my temperatures between 58-65c. Even on CPU bound games like Battlefield 2042 my temps stay cool. Pair this with some Thermal Grizzly Kryonaught Extreme and call it a day. No issues with RAM clearance and it’s a breeze to mount. Well worth the money.

Macht was es soll und kühlt meinen 12 Kernen sowie die neueste Grafikkarte sehr gut, überschreitet nie die 70 Grad Marke und ist meist unter 60 Grad

Received this CPU cooler to replace the original NH-U12A. Not sure what Noctua did, but the fans are quieter than the original brown/tan ones that came with the NH-U12A. I have these Chromax fans set to 1500rpm max through the ASUS AI Suite and they perform FANtastic and are super quiet. I was running some of the new PHANTEKS T30 fans on the replaced NH-U12A the past two months and they were very good as well, but the colors arent black enough to match this Chromax version and they made an annoying mechanical sound above 1200rpm. This CPU cooler is a win!!

naja, preis viel zu teuer, meinen R7 5800X hält er grad ma 10 grad kühler als mein einfacher bequiet kühler für 30€

The chromax u12a loves up to the typical noctua quality you’d expect, which is great. Noctua has the easiest mounting system I’ve used in 20 years of building pcs. I also look it looks great but I also think the ram and brown looks good too.

The UH-12A is a fantastic cooler that is quite impressive given it’s size. I’m very happy with the temps and low noise I’m getting while using it with a 5800x3d. It looks pretty sleek as well.