the NHD 14 has rained for over four
years as one of if not the king of the
castle for dual Tower heat sinks but nocta hasn't been sitting on their
thumbs and finally we have a successor the nhd15 is
here for the ultimate no compromises
compact gaming PC look no further than the obsidian series 250d from Corsair
click now to learn more now to fans of
previous nocta products the family resemblance between the D14 and the D15
will be fairly obvious they both feature six heat pipes soldered onto a flat
shiny base they both feature two large towers with stacked aluminum fins and
they are both intended to run in a dual fan configuration with high quality fans
included in the Box in this case static pressure optimized
nf5 140 mm pwm fans with integrated
antivibration mounts and they are both capable of
mounting a third aftermarket fan for even better performance when we look
closer though we start to notice some differences first up is that the fin
Stacks have been widened this allows the six heat pipes to have more spacing
between them for better efficiency next we see that the bottoms of the fin
Stacks have actually been cut away for better memory compatibility this gives
you a ton of options you can populate both sides with fans and lowprofile RAM
you can populate the center with a fan and put high-profile RAM on both sides
of a dual Tower heat sink something I've never seen before or you can throw two
fans in and have high-profile RAM on one side one last option is that you can
actually raise the outside fan if you need a little bit more space for RAM
just make sure your side panel is far enough away from your motherboard for
this to work cuz it's going to stick up above the top of the heat sink Inside
the Box aside from the high quality included fans with their six-year
warranty you'll find low noise adapters for the fans that reduce them to from,
1500 to 1200 RPM a y cable so that both
fans can be pwm controlled off of a single motherboard header a tube of nth1
thermal compound and knock to us
legendary oh that's not as exciting as I thought legendary SKU firm 2 mounting
hardware which they're renowned not only for creating but also for upgrading for
free for existing customers when new sockets come out with only a couple of
exceptions noct's mounting hardware is so much better than everyone else's that
for once I really do wish that everyone would just copy their design so the
entire industry could have better mounting hardware okay so I guess all
that's really left at this point is how does it actually perform I will leave
that to Luke to cover he will be putting the nhd15 up against the very best
all-in-one liquid coolers on the market for a a battle royale of topend air
cooling versus topend liquid cooling and and I think that you guys will be
impressed by the results spoiler alert
I'm still an OCTA Fanboy all right guys so for the test environment we have a
4820k running at 1.3 volts at a speed of
4.0 GHz we also have a GTX 580 in there
overclocked a little bit running combuster just to heat up the place on
the CPU we run Prime 95 to heat up everything there so that this is a very
stressful environment and we're testing the cooler while under loadad in a
really harsh kind of above the top situation we also have a C70 as our
standard test benching case we run all of our coolers in this case and that's
what this run was done in as well in terms of mounting the cooler with noct
to skirm 2 mounting hardware it's pretty
freaking easy uh judging by the size of the cooler you expect it's going to be
really difficult but once you mount the anchor points in and with the custom
screwdriver that they give you it's it's it's honestly a breeze I had no
complications installing this cooler at all in terms of noise level it did great
but then everything we test here does great because we standardize on KN to of
fans all the other coolers we test get a nice little Advantage because we add
value by adding aftermarket fans to their cooling setups these aren't
aftermarket fans for Noctua because they're Noctua fans the exact ones that
we're testing with are the ones that come in the Box because they're the exact same model before I jump into
performance I would highly suggest opening a new tab not closing this one
checking out Techquickie and watching Linus' video on liquid cooling radiators
it's a really good watch and it'll help inform you about a few things about liquid cooling if you do know about it
continue on watching and we'll talk about performance so the
nhd15 performs really well I was kind of surprised that it beat an h110 although
that being said noctu has been sitting on this for a really long time so I was
kind of expecting Excellence from them um it doesn't Beat It by a lot though so
it's an interesting kind of tradeoff if you need that being able to put it
somewhere else in the case because you're worried about sizing because this cooler is fairly tall Maybe you need an
aiio but if you're not worried about that and maybe you're a little bit scared of liquid being in your case
maybe this is the way you go let me know what you guys think in the comments down below and I'll see you guys next time
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