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more welcome to my unboxing event seriously did you leave your plus minute
vitamins on the table um of the nhu1 14s
which is part of their award-winning U
series which basically was what the Germans used to win the war Wait no
that's probably not funny they're Austrian okay hold on uh so the nhu1 14s
is a single Tower heat pipe cooler so
not like the D series so their D14 is the Dual Tower one it retains the same
performance as their previous U series coolers but does some does it a little
bit differently so it has a Slimmer profile that allows the nhu1 14s to be
installed on a motherboard even an LGA 2011 motherboard with fans with full
height ramed and not have any interference so
let's go ahead and pull this bad boy out of here as always noct toa's packaging
is um excellent if a little bit plain so
it's just plain cardboard packaging fully recyclable which I do actually
like to see inside we see that they've included one of their NF a15 fans which
is a 140 mm fan that actually uses 120
mm mounting point so this gives it pretty good compatibility however this
particular fan design you can tell just by looking at it was pretty much
optimized for this cooler you can tell
because you see right here the vibration reducing pads that are on the four
corners of the fan are set up perfectly to sit on here you go this piece right
here on the outside of the NH
u14s now when it comes to product quality if you guys have been watching
me for any period of time you'll already know what I think about the NH q1 14s
what I thought about it before I even opened it it is the utmost Pinnacle of
product quality Noctua makes excellent gear they back it up with a six-year
warranty which you might say well on a heat sink that doesn't matter well on a fan it does they're saying their fan
will not die for six years or they'll deal with it for you they use some of
the best actually I would go as far as to just call their mounting mechanism
the best in the industry uh you can see right here it comes in either this box
right here for the Intel mounting system so it's going to have like you know
Wicked solid hold down pieces that are made of like thick old steel it's going
to have all the little screws and a nice little package here it's going to have a
thick back plate I mean look at that thing it's rugged and it's going to uh
it's going to have the option for you to upgrade it for free later in all
likelihood because nocta has done that for years now offering existing
customers new mounting hardware for future sockets so there's the AMD stuff
in here as well as all the accessories in this box right here so this is where
you'll find your see even their case badges are better than other people's
case badges they include a gorgeous metal case badge as well as noise
dampening strips so if you don't want to use nocu a fans they do include a couple
of rubber strips so you can use different fans but you should probably use the Noctua fans a couple more metal
retention clips for mounting different fans to the heat sink as well as their
nth1 which is good I mean it's not the
best thermal compound on the market unlike everything else about the product which does happen to be as good as it
gets but it's not bad at all they've
also got some additional Corner mounts that's kind of interesting for the fan
presumably so that's kind of neat and then they've got a screwdriver so you
don't actually even have to have any extra Tools in order to install the nhu1
14s speaking of installing it on the
base right here you will find that it is actually not that shiny of a base so
we'll do the obligatory finger shot there you can see you can't make up my finger that clearly guys the the
shininess of the base does not actually necessarily tell you anything about the
thermal performance of it this has been true for years swifttech was one of the
ones that had trouble with this because they used to do a very uh flat look on
the bottoms of their blocks but it was flat even though it wasn't shiny and
they sometimes got flat for that versus other manufacturers highly polishing the
bases but they weren't actually flat which is not conducive to it being a
better cooler this particular base doesn't happen to be completely flat
it's a little bit bowed which has been shown with the high mounting pressures
we use today to give slightly better performance than a completely flat base
and you can see right here at the bottom they use six heat pipes and it should be
noted that even though they're quite small heat pipes they're not you know super pipes like ASUS actually here I
haven't happened to have it right here is using a 10 mm heat pipe on their
latest GTX 780 cards you can see by contrast the 4mm pipes don't look that
big but quality of heat pipes is actually terribly important where the
size of them is important but is not the only Factor the overall manufacturing of
it is of course perfect it has no blemishes on it whatsoever the fins are
all completely straight exactly like you'd expect from noct's excellent
packaging and check it out more on that hold down I mean look how thick that
piece of Steel is on the top of this
cooler so what is the advantage basically they've taken the U series
they've upgraded it to 140 mm giving you better performance well the same
performance performance but giving you better performance in a Slimmer form
factor than what you can get elsewhere allowing you to use a nice high
performance cooler to fans and full-size
memory modules meaning that you can actually cool your memory directly with
the fans on your CPU heat sink as well without further Ado I'm going to sign
off and hand you guys over to Slick to talk about the performance of the NH
u14s on our standard test bench so we're going to start with Idols at 20° C so if
you want to see more details about our ambient temperatures and the rounding
and everything that's going on you can check out the Google Doc that's Linked In the description but these are our
temperatures at 20° C for idle so I was
kind of surprised at how well it actually performed and now a few of you
going to be looking at the zman results and be a little bit confused but what's
going on there is I have that fan turned down to 1100 RPM and that fan actually
naturally runs a lot faster now we can't replace the fan on that cooler so in the
review of that cooler will'll have a couple of different RPMs going on there
but I was really impressed with its performance on idle and we're going to move on to load now on to load
performance which I'm a lot more interested in because honestly I know
the cooler is going to work on idle it's load that I'm really kind of worried
about and I'm interested to see how things will play out so that you can see
the H Ai and this Elman reserator 3 kind of fight with themselves down at the
bottom and then the interesting race is a little bit higher than that with this
guy and the Corsair h100i again we'll have more numbers as time goes on
because I have to rerun a lot of things but I was really impressed with it it
did quite well and it makes sense because of how big it is and because of
the fact that it has a much larger higher performance fan but I was still
quite impressed like this video if you like it dislike this video if you don't
like it and in the comments what are you going to go with now uh aios have been
here for a while but there's still some perceived Terror over them now are you
going to go with an AO or an air cooler that's up to you and if you like this
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