Noctua NH-U12A, Premium CPU Cooler with High-Performance Quiet NF-A12x25 PWM Fans (120mm, Brown)

My Ryzen 5 5600x was consistently hitting 90-degree temps on AMDs stock cooler, even in undemanding games. But with this beefy Noctua cooler, I havent seen so much as a peak into 75 degrees, even on my most CPU-intensive titles. So it does its job beautifully, and its incredibly quiet to boot (even without the noise reducing add-ons). But I cant give this cooler the 5 stars it should otherwise deserve because of the absolutely abysmal fan-mounting solution. You get two 120mm fans that attach to the heat sink with incredibly flimsy aluminum brackets, such that when the case is stood up and the cooler is now parallel to the ground, the fans sag and actually hang about half an inch below the bottom of the heat sink. I imagine it has only a marginal affect on the cooling, but it looks and feels incredibly sloppy, especially for a $120 cooler.

I gave up on making pretty with lights and colors and decided to go just plain ugly with these brown and tans but I love them and they are engineered to really high specs. So high, it has been hard for them to make it in black plastic with the same characteristics. I will say this was a breeze to install compared to even AMDs coolers.

Its a really good heat sink, however, the price is way to dam high it should be 80 but other than that, is one of the best coolers I ever had in my life.

Da nach dem Aufrüsten auf den Ryzen 5900X auf Gigabyte Aorus X570 Elite die Kühlleistung meines be quiet! Pure Rock nicht mehr ausreichte (Stapel-Export von ca. 500 RAWs nach JPG aus Lightroom erzeugte Temparaturen > 100° C) habe ich eine neue Kühllösung gesucht, die zusätzlich auch noch in mein Gehäuse (Cooler Master Silencio 452), welches nur eine maximale Kühlkörperhöhe von 158 mm zulässt. So bin ich dann zuerst eher zähneknirschend beim Noctua NH-U12A gelandet. 120 EUR sind für einen CPU-Kühler schon ein stolzer Preis.

My cooler did not come with the lga1700 bracket which is a bit disappointing. The description makes it seem like it’s supposed to come with it but mine definitely did not which is the reason for 4 stars instead of 5.

All temperatures in Celsius.

Piazzato su una MSI MAG B650M MORTAR WIFI Micro ATX coricata (orizzontale) dentro quel cubetto del thermaltake core v21, raffresca senza problemi un Ryzen 9 7950X che arriva tranquillamente a 5,8 MHz e segna punteggi Aida e Cinebench in linea con quelli dei test online. Qualche ventola qua e la per aiutarlo a smaltire.

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Great product, if you’re thinking about buying it DO IT!!!

the cooler is quiet and does a great job on cpu cooling / thermals. amazing!