Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4, Premium CPU Cooler for AMD AM4 (Brown)

Installation instructions were crystal clear but when it comes to the springs for mounting with the screws, I had quite a bit of trouble with it. Overall, still a great product.

Keeps my 1800x nice and cool @ 3.7ghz.

Easily the best 120mm tower fan cooler out their. Easy installation for the experienced, very high quality, dead silent even at moderate speeds, and has provisions for an additional fan. Does not interfere with ram at all on pretty much any standard motherboard. This is as big as I will go for air cooling, as it weighs over 800 grams which is more than the recommended amount by AMD and Intel socket retention systems. Anything more can stress the board and moving the computer with larger tower coolers is a big no-no (even Noctua acknowledges this). Has tons of headroom for my overclocked Ryzen 2600. Unless you are doing some extreme overclocking on the higher-end chips, you dont need anything more.

I built an upgraded high end creator/gaming PC in the Thermaltake Commander (C34 model) and outfitted it with 2 Noctua 200mm / 2 140mm and 3 120mm fans (two on Noctua U12 cooler). My overclocked Ryzen 9 has zero problems with heat with no water cooling, and is still very quiet.

Short review

I use this cooler with my Ryzen 5 1600. Overclocked to 3.8GHz at 1.35v, I saw temperatures drop from 73c on stock cooler to around 61c in Aida64. I briefly OCd to 3.9 at 1.4125v and saw temps at around 64c. Very happy with this cooler.

I swapped from a case that had less ventilation, so the stock wraith prism was having to work harder.

So overall once I was able to get it installed , which alone was a little tricky but not impossible its been just the bees knees . Excellent cooler not loud at all even at full power , in my opinion . Only thing I have to be upset about is the fact I didnt get the dual fan cooler ! Replaced my stock stealth AMD cooler with this one , while gaming Im seeing easily 10°c cooler then the stock AMD fan .

Love this CPU Cooler! Pretty quiet, Great Quality, Keeps system pretty cool when in hot ambiant temperatures. With the Ryzen 7 2700x idles around 35c in 28c ambient. And when stress test for about max time on Ryzen Master stays stable around 65c. No overclock done just set to auto. Only thing I dislike is just the color. Should definitely get duo fans for best results.

Great heatsink, but the fan clips constantly come loose. I have watched videos to verify I am installing the fan correctly; I think that my fan clips are ...slinkier?... than they are supposed to be.