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we never actually intended to do a review of this cooler originally I was

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just going to use it to upgrade the stock cooler that I installed in edel's

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upgraded workstation back around the time I originally built it almost a year

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ago since our whole room water cooling project is a thing now though Ed won't

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need an air cooler in his workstation anymore so when Luke asked to borrow

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this for our MSI Nightblade review I was like sure take it and then apparently

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you guys liked it so much that you wanted to see a alone review so here we

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are with the purchase of a qualifying Intel processor SSD or knck you could

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instantly win an Intel gaming Jersey and be entered in the draw for the ultimate

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system click now to learn more let's start with a physical tour of the unit

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you get the usual awesome noct TOA accessories thermal compound splitter

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cable two fans two low noise adapters a mini ITX mounting kit a case badge and

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their standard suu firm mounting hardware more on that later then you get

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the heat sink itself which actually comes with both the nf12 pwm 120 mm fan

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and the nfb 992 mm fan pre-mounted to it

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now the challenge with this little baby was keeping it narrow enough to avoid

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potential interference with nearby memory slots or vrm Solutions on Tiny MX

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motherboards while keeping height low enough for half height or unusual size

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computer cases and then achieving both of those things with adequate cooling

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for you know high performance quad core processors so Noctua went with an

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aluminum fin array soldered to four copper heat pipes then soldered those

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again on the other side to their as always beautiful and shiny base plate

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they then put a clean looking nickel coating finish over the whole thing and

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I mean that's tidy it looks nice and all that but it's not exactly groundbreaking

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no the really cool stuff with this cooler happens when we start looking at

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fan mounting options you probably noticed I said it comes with both 120 mm

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and 92mm fans that are pre-mounted now you can leave them both on there giving

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the cooler a 92 mm total profile or you

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can actually remove that top fan for reduced performance but a mere 66 mm

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profile which gives you some great flexibility in terms of mounting options

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speaking of mounting options I guess it's time to hand off to Luke to give

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you guys the performance skinny get it it's a joke cuz it's a slim cooler

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anyway uh sorry the performance and mounting rundown on the NHL 12 in both

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our standard test bench and MSI's night

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blade small form factor barebones PC where we originally showed it to you

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installation of the nh- l12 was incredibly easy and I was kind of

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surprised you don't actually have to worry about that bottom fan you can just

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leave it installed because all you have to do is uh Drive feed your screwdriver

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through the little hole ho on the heat fins on the top and it goes in between

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the fins of the fan down below and lets you screw in a pretty elegant solution

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and they definitely thought about this while they were designing it okay so

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fairly obviously it gets crushed in the C70 because it's going up against some

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pretty big dogs some dual rad coolers and really big towers when we put it in

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the night blade against the Intel cooler it crushes there as well and something

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to notice here is the zero on the Intel cooler under load isn't because the

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Intel cooler is Magic given to us by some crazy demon it's because it totally

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failed it hit TJ Maxx under load and I had to stop it before bad thing started

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happening or it throttled itself to hell so and that that processor was not even

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overclocked the only overclocked one was on the C70 where we were doing our

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standard test at 1.3 volts 4.0 GHz with

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uh small ffts running on Prime 95 and

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combuster so I don't know pretty good job for a small cooler and a really good

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alternative in a small case to a stock Intel cooler but but if you have a

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full-size cooler maybe not but you probably knew that already speaking of

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