{"video_id":"5bHWrE6zL2E","title":"Noctua NH-L12 Tiny CPU Cooler","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2015-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":318,"segments":[{"start_s":0.199,"end_s":7.56,"text":"we never actually intended to do a review of this cooler originally I was","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.92,"end_s":11.679,"text":"just going to use it to upgrade the stock cooler that I installed in edel's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.639,"end_s":17.16,"text":"upgraded workstation back around the time I originally built it almost a year","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.36,"end_s":20.56,"text":"ago since our whole room water cooling project is a thing now though Ed won't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.0,"end_s":25.16,"text":"need an air cooler in his workstation anymore so when Luke asked to borrow","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.96,"end_s":29.24,"text":"this for our MSI Nightblade review I was 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like sure take it and then apparently you guys liked it so much that you wanted to see a alone review so here we are with the purchase of a qualifying Intel processor SSD or knck you could instantly win an Intel gaming Jersey and be entered in the draw for the ultimate system click now to learn more let's start with a physical tour of the unit you get the usual awesome noct TOA accessories thermal compound splitter cable two fans two low noise adapters a mini ITX mounting kit a case badge and their standard suu firm mounting hardware more on that later then you get the heat sink itself which actually comes with both the nf12 pwm 120 mm fan and the nfb 992 mm fan pre-mounted to it now the challenge with this little baby was keeping it narrow enough to avoid potential interference with nearby memory slots or vrm Solutions on Tiny MX motherboards while keeping height low enough for half height or unusual size computer cases and then achieving both of those things with adequate cooling for you know high performance quad core processors so Noctua went with an aluminum fin array soldered to four copper heat pipes then soldered those again on the other side to their as always beautiful and shiny base plate they then put a clean looking nickel coating finish over the whole thing and I mean that's tidy it looks nice and all that but it's not exactly groundbreaking no the really cool stuff with this cooler happens when we start looking at fan mounting options you probably noticed I said it comes with both 120 mm and 92mm fans that are pre-mounted now you can leave them both on there giving the cooler a 92 mm total profile or you can actually remove that top fan for reduced performance but a mere 66 mm profile which gives you some great flexibility in terms of mounting options speaking of mounting options I guess it's time to hand off to Luke to give you guys the performance skinny get it it's a joke cuz it's a slim cooler anyway uh sorry the performance and mounting rundown on the NHL 12 in both our standard test bench and MSI's night blade small form factor barebones PC where we originally showed it to you installation of the nh- l12 was incredibly easy and I was kind of surprised you don't actually have to worry about that bottom fan you can just leave it installed because all you have to do is uh Drive feed your screwdriver through the little hole ho on the heat fins on the top and it goes in between the fins of the fan down below and lets you screw in a pretty elegant solution and they definitely thought about this while they were designing it okay so fairly obviously it gets crushed in the C70 because it's going up against some pretty big dogs some dual rad coolers and really big towers when we put it in the night blade against the Intel cooler it crushes there as well and something to notice here is the zero on the Intel cooler under load isn't because the Intel cooler is Magic given to us by some crazy demon it's because it totally failed it hit TJ Maxx under load and I had to stop it before bad thing started happening or it throttled itself to hell so and that that processor was not even overclocked the only overclocked one was on the C70 where we were doing our standard test at 1.3 volts 4.0 GHz with uh small ffts running on Prime 95 and combuster so I don't know pretty good job for a small cooler and a really good alternative in a small case to a stock Intel cooler but but if you have a full-size cooler maybe not but you probably knew that already speaking of fans I am a fan of the way Ting provides their customers with affordable and reliable wireless coverage they claim that they're pay only for what you use model will save 98% of people money on their monthly cell phone bill but you don't have to take their word for it if you head over to lin.com you can find their savings calculator where if you enter your information from the last three Wireless bills you've had they'll let you know what you could have paid if you were on Ting they have amazing customer service since they actually employ humans like human beings rather than robots which is kind of sucks and they let everyone know that their service runs on the Sprint network so if you check out how Sprint coverage is in your area you'll know what kind of service you'll have and how reliable it'll be with tting and the last and best part is that if you Lo use the link in the description down below when you sign up that's listing.com you'll get $25 off an awesome new device or $25 off service credit that's a decent payout and thanks for watching this video so check out ting.com and check the link in the video description for a discount I'll see you guys next time checking.com"}