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they finally did it 10 years ago i complained to noctua that

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their products were great but simply too ugly to use for my own personal projects

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well back in 2015 we partnered with them to launch their first all black consumer

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fans which was a big step in the right direction and now

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four years later we're back at it with something even bigger

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not this this is ugly meat the ltt editions of noctua's first ever

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lineup of all black coolers the first 5

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000 units of each the chromax black nhd15 and nhu 12s will have some special

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extras included and will help support us here at ltt

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so in today's video we're going to give you guys a close look at them and

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also make sure that they match both the excellent thermal performance and

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low sound levels that we have come to expect from noctua's ugly products

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now it's no secret that i am a huge knock to a fan boy

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sorry puns aside any fandom that i have

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of any company is going to be out of respect not because there's like an

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emotional attachment and there's a reason that i hold noctua in such high

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regard their secu firm 2 mounting system

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which by the way like the fan included and the heatsink

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itself is now all black down to every

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single mounting plate and screw is still by far my favorite solution

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when it comes to keeping a large heavy tower cooler firmly planted on a cpu and

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as we showed in our recent video their performance is on par or better than aio

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water coolers in the same price bracket or in some cases even higher ones and

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their ugly fans are the standard that other fans are measured to from a

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performance perspective anyway the only reason that their products have

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been relegated to test bench duty for me is that

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i confess i like a little bit of flash with my

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dash and until now they haven't had

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anything in their cpu cooler lineup that's even

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close enough to the visual appeal of other solutions to justify the couple

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degrees of better performance or few decibels of lower acoustics

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at least until now

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let's open it up

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it looks so good there's nothing on it

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that isn't black wires sleeving heat shrink connectors

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screws even the retainers here are black which

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has gotta kinda make you wonder if

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this was such an obvious problem

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and such an easy solution why didn't they hurry up and do this

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before well because as it turns out it's actually

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not an especially easy solution now there are lots of different ways to

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attach heat pipes to a cpu cooler's base and the heat pipes are what are

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responsible for quickly moving the heat away from your processor to the cooling

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fins which are responsible for dissipating the heat to the surrounding

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air but no way of attaching them is as reliant

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or performant as soldering them

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now soldering heat pipes is already a tricky matter because

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think about it for a second these are sealed tubes with fluid inside that are

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designed to transfer heat away from where it's being applied so doing it

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safely without them exploding isn't as simple as whipping out a torch and just

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going for it so then wait

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you want to put a coating on these things adding yet another layer of

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complexity for what just for looks are

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you crazy that's a very knock to a way of thinking

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but i and the thousands of other enthusiasts

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who sadly do care about these things

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finally got through to them so much of the r d for this product went into

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finding a way to manufacture the chromax black lineup with the same performance

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and consistency as the regular versions

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that don't have to deal with that added layer of complexity here and

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noctua claims that they did it so to

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validate their claims we have both the big boy nhd15 dual tower cooler and for

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the more space conscious of you we also have the nhu 12s with a single 120

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millimeter fan and a heck and ton of clearance for your pci slots and your

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ram there's an extra little note in the box a little letter from ltt as well as

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some ltt stickers for the hubs of your fans or you can throw them on your case

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if you want and these sexy orange rubber

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anti-vibration pads of course the original black ones are also included in

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the box there's also an nhd9i but there's no ltt edition of that one

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so that was some movie magic right there we have replaced the stock black pads with

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the orange ones so you can see what they're going to look like in their ltt

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edition goodness now let's head over to the workshop and

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make sure they're actually worth buying compared to the originals so step one of

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putting these things through their paces is building up a test bench that is

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really going to challenge them so this right here is intel's furnace of a cpu

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the extreme edition 9980xe18 core and we're going to be

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using ida 64's stress test to compare both the

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ognhd15 and u12s

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to their new all black counterparts

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so for the sake of simplicity we actually tested our

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products as they came in the box so that

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is with only one fan installed and no low noise adapters

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this way we can also have a look at how much benefit there is to having two

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cooling towers versus just a single one

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all right so now it's time for the results guys first up thermals each of our coolers

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was allowed to run for 10 minutes to hit thermal equilibrium and we repeated the

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tests three times remounting the coolers between each run

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so between the two u12 s's our black cooler actually came out on top with an

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average temperature 1.7 degrees cooler than the raw version with the nhd15s

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however we saw the opposite with the raw cooler beating out the black version by

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about 1.3 degrees now here's the thing guys

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considering the 20 variability in rpm from one knock to a

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fan to the next that's their manufacturing tolerance and the variance

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that we saw from run to run particularly on our nhd15s we think it's safe to say

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at this point that buying black versus raw is not going to yield a performance

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difference one way or the other but that doesn't answer the question of

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how they compare acoustically the problem is we have no way of testing

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that here i mean even somewhere like this empty workshop has you know this

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transformer you hear that buzzing that is so much

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louder than these coolers that we would have no way of getting an accurate

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measurement of them fortunately we've got friends in high places and our

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buddies over at simon fraser university graciously gave us access to their world

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class satomo antenna testing chamber this chamber is normally used to map the

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transmission patterns of antenna designs for all types of devices from tiny iot

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things all the way up to satellites and it's actually a happy little accident

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that it happens to work so well for acoustic testing as it's designed to

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prevent radio waves from reflecting around the room as well as preventing

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any from entering from the outside it's actually one big faraday cage so we're

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back and the data is really interesting

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so once again there is a difference between our silver and our black

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heatsinks but this time the superior performance

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actually goes completely the other way around which appears to validate our

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previous theory that the temperature differences that we observed yesterday

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pretty much came down to the fans spinning a little slower or a little

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faster depending on the manufacturing tolerances

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so then bottom line they're as good as they're

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supposed to be so how do you get one great question

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the first couple batches of units out of noctua's manufacturing facilities are

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all going to be ltt edition with the extra stickers the orange mounting pads

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and all that good stuff and these will exclusively be available on noctua's

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official amazon stores while supplies last

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after october 22nd 2019 knoxville will begin shipping regular ones that are

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just all black and those may end up being mixed in with the ltt edition ones

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at the amazon warehouse after that time you'll need to check noctua's ebay store

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where they're going to try and keep a few of these around even after that date

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for anyone who's a little late to the game

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the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys i hope you're

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as excited about the ltt edition coolers as we are if you're looking for another

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video to watch maybe check out the one where we actually compared the raw

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versions against water coolers with some pretty surprising results