okay so I'm having a look at another nocta cooler the reason that I'm looking at both of these is they both launched
fairly close together and the reason for that is that nocta just launched their
140 mil fan so this is an updated version of the NH c12p and it is the
se14 which as you may or may not have guessed stands for special edition 14 cm
fan okay so there you go so let's get this open this is not a tower heat sink
this is actually a more traditional uh blowing down style of heat sink and the
reason for that is not everybody has room in their case for these giant Tower
heat sinks that go out of the side of your motherboard I mean the one that we
unboxed recently the the D14 is just huge and you don't always have space for
that you don't always have clearance so a more top down design is good for that
and it's also good if you need more cooling for the surrounding components
around your motherboard because the fan will actually contribute to mosfet
cooling as well as RAM cooling all that other stuff the tradeoff is that it
doesn't cool the CPU quite as well which many people are happy to make so let's
dive into the accessories here first we have a metal noock case badge very
classy very stylish then we have their low noise and ultra low noise adapters
so 7 and 5 volts basically then we have a couple of fan clips and a tube of
their nt1 thermal compound which you will need to spread on the CPU then we
have the AMD mounting hardware okay so their SKU firm mounting system includes
both AMD and Intel this Intel mounting hardware you can see by all the
different mounting holes here is actually good for 775 1156 and 1366 it
uses all thumb screws and stuff very nice I love to see that and then they've
done their classy little manual thing here where you open it up and you got
the Intel instructions in one side and the AMD structions instruct AMD
structions AMD instructions in the other side very cool it's all colorcoded I
should probably just do a quick uh show that really quickly here so they show
you all the different steps and colors should be quite simple to install like
all of their coolers have been in the past okay so let's get down to the c12p
se14 here if I can figure out how to get
the Box open then that will be a major stride for me okay so it actually
ships okay with you able to see the 140
mm fan through the front now this 140 mm
fan is a pretty new product for Noctua unlike all of the other 140 mil fans on
the market it uses a circular frame and the reason they've done that is because
it actually has 120 mm mounting holes
now if you buy the uh the fan Standalone you can actually get 140 mm adapters but
it's pretty cool that they allow you to mount a larger fan on a smaller uh
mounting hole okay they ship it with a little piece of plastic I like attention
to detail like this I love to see this between the fins and the fan so that
nothing get scratched you don't get any plastic junk uh residue coming off on
your fins keeps it nice and pristine looking so let's have a look at the
cooler itself you've got okay a nickel
plated copper base which will do the uh the obligatory finger shot to show the
uh the shininess now it's not particularly reflective but Noctua takes
great pride in how flat their bases is their bases are all your base something
either way reflectiveness is not necessarily an indication of flatness so
we have six heat pipes coming into the bottom here which are all oriented to
come up into their sort of radiator
array here now I'm not sure why they've made this design decision where they're
leaving out some of the fins here but I'm sure there's a very good reason for
it and I just want to give you a couple more angles here before we wrap up our
unboxing so you can see the noct to a branding there oh I see why they've done
it because these ones are connected directly to the base I'm sorry I totally
missed that wow blonde moment there okay so thank you for checking out my
unboxing and product overview of the NH
c12p se14