we never actually intended to do a review of this cooler originally I was
just going to use it to upgrade the stock cooler that I installed in edel's
upgraded workstation back around the time I originally built it almost a year
ago since our whole room water cooling project is a thing now though Ed won't
need an air cooler in his workstation anymore so when Luke asked to borrow
this for our MSI Nightblade review I was like sure take it and then apparently
you guys liked it so much that you wanted to see a alone review so here we
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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
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