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

As title, there is not enough room for 2 memory sticks on the motherboard if you want to keep both the fans on; U12S might be a better option

Honestly the fact that there is a single tower cooler with the performance of a dual cooler setup was perfect for me. I have never used Noctua before so I had no expectations. I waited for the Chromax edition of the NH-U12A to become available as I had a specific black and white theme going. Mounting was super easy with instructions, and this particular model came with the universal mounting bracket for 12th get intel boards and CPUs which was awesome. It was also much easier to mount than the CM Hyper 212 Evo which has been my go-to previously. There was just so much less guesswork than you get with the spring mount on that cooler.

Keeps my 7950x3d around 50c-60c

Pour linstant cest bien

Great cooler. Nice and quiet. Keeps the temps good as well. Size fits perfectly in a standard ATX case.

Sehr guter Kühler. Kühlt meinen 5800X3D echt gut und ist dabei mit optimierter Lüfterkurve nicht sehr störend. Im Idle nimmt man ihn überhaupt nicht wahr.

super ventirad, très facile a installer refroidis mon processeur 12700k sans problème sans overclocking sinon passer avec un watercooling pour un overclock. je recommande sans hésitation ce ventirad

Fans are a bit obnoxious to get back on during the install but aside from that i cannot find anything else to nitpick

You better have a big enough ATX case for this cooler. I used it for almost 6 months. I got decent temps with the Noctua, CPU 43-45c at idle. However, I made two changes that dropped temp almost 10c on both CPU and GPU,. 1) AIO cooler for CPU and 2) Vertical riser and custom fans for GPU. The Noctua was like having a base board radiator in the case and it was heating the air in mid-case and restricting air flow. Maybe a bigger air flow case would have been better for the Noctua.

Ive been an avid nhd15 user. No more. I will now be using the u12a for future builds. I just built a 5950x system with a u12a and it keeps it from loosing its cool. Mid 80s when PBO optimized, same as the nhd15 i tried on the same system :) In my mind, its quieter and is not an eye sore in my case blocking the pretty ram that Ive got or causing me to loose skin trying to pull out my video card. As stated before, the temperatures seems like its the same as its bigger counterpart. The only negative thing that I can think of is that I did have a couple of bent fins but they were easily bent back into shape.