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

Title says it all. Cools my 5800x better than my 280mm AIO from NZXT. Absolutely silent as well. 10/10

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.

Qué decir de ésta bestia. Construcción excelente, cero ruido y buena disipación.

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!!

Really easy to install n works great in my gaming pc

Looks nice and attaching the heatsink to the motherboard is easy. However, the fans will not stay firmly attached to the heatsink with the flimsy steel clips provided. Maybe if the motherboard is lying flat and the heatsink is pointed straight up instead of out to the side (which most builds would have it) then maybe it would work, but even then, I would be worried the clips would come loose and the fans fall away from the heatsink. Would be better if there was the option to bolt the fans to the heatsink. Pretty much a loss at this point.

Ryzen 5700X ran in high 50s C with the original Wraith fan.

It works very similarly to D15S on 12700K but it is a lot smaller and better looking and comes with two flagship NF-A12x25 fans that cost $44 each. I am not worried that this would bend the board and break off during movement either. It feels much more stable because of its size. I think most people should skip D15/D15s and buy this instead. The installation is also easier. I also had a chance to try Scythe Fuma 2 Rev B which cost almost half as much. It is similar in size and performs well but not good enough for 12700K imo. It was definitely running hotter during benchmarks. But if you want to save on cost, I would recommend that, not D15S. This is not twice as good as Fuma 2 overall, more like 20% better. Overall I think the heatsink itself is not anything special, its the 2x NF-A12x25s that make it work. I think if you buy two of those and put them on a cheaper tower cooler, it would perform similarly. Most of the money here is going to those two fans.

I opened the box and could not help but laugh at the size, this thing is huge and must weigh over a pound . My first thought was that it was comically large. In the pictures you can see it sitting on the CPU, and it size compared to the I/O plate of the mother board, the second pic is it sitting next to the stock AMD Cooler that came with my Ryzen 5700G. The instructions recommend you take off the cooler before transporting it because you dont want that weight bouncing around while attached to the MB. Its big.

Works great for my gaming computer and its quiet.