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now this is a product that I've been excited about ever since I heard about

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it Noctua uh needs absolutely no introduction they make some of if not

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the best air coolers on the market all

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right so this is a brand new product from them that is a bit of an evolution

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on their NHC 12 and it is called the nhc1 14 so as you might well imagine

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that means we've gone from a 12 CM fan to a 14 cm fan it uses a c type Flow

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Design which means that this is a d draft cooler and you know what I I know

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this one pretty well so I don't need to really talk too much about what's on the outside of the box and I know there's

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going to be lots of mounting accessories and fans and all kinds of stuff inside

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here that we're going to have to have a look at so I'll have plenty of time to

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yak about all the different things about this product so the first box inside we

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find a set of Intel mounting hardware and I've said this before but it's been

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a long time since noct's released something new so I'm going to say it

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again I love Noctua mounting hardware it

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is some of the best on the market and here I'm just going to show you guys

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something I mean even though their coolers are big and heavy their mounting

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hardware is built like a tank I mean look at this thing it's got a thick

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thick rubber coating so no matter what kind of uh components are mounted on the

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back of your motherboard PCB they're not going to pierce through there and make

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contact with the metal and short anything out they've got a removable

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rubber piece here so that makes room for an integrated back plate if your CPU you

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has one all right uh so for example LGA

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1156 does have one so you'll have to pull that out and then you put this on

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the rubber makes contact with the back your board very nice the overall build quality of all no to a products is just

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outstanding all right let's move along here we've got more like solid solid

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metal pieces once you attach this thing it's not coming off no matter what okay

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here we have a manual which shows you Intel and AMD mounting instructions it

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is a color some semic color manual all right very very detailed it's very easy

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to install these things I could pretty much do it with my eyes closed despite

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the fact that they are massive coolers here we have the AMD mounting hardware

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real simple for that one and then we have the shared pieces so in here you're

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going to actually find a lot of different accessories that are all very

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useful in their own ways and I'm going to tell you all about them so first we

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have uh low noise fan adapters as well

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as ultra low noise fan adapters so those are uh 7 and 5vt fan adapters depending

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on how quiet you want your fan and how

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much cooling you want out of it next we have a splitter so that's so you can

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plug both fans because this is a dual fan cooler into the single CPU

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motherboard header then we have some anti vibration mounts for a fan we have

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some non- antiv vibration mounts for a fan and we have some anti vibration

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little brackety guys here I'm not actually sure what those ones do I

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haven't seen those before noct to a case badge even nocta case badges are like

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better built than anyone else look at that it's like metal it's like a thick

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piece of metal awesome okay next we have

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packing okay oh cameraman somehow ended up on the

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other side of me I'm not quite sure when that happened while we were filming this

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video all right now this is it I I haven't seen this in

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person yet so I'm I'm actually like pretty stoked right now so I can already

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see there's H six heat pipes built into

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this cooler sorry about that Esther filled up my

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memory card and I didn't realize it was full because I didn't know that there

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was a bunch of footage on my camera so I deleted all her stuff hopefully she

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didn't need it and I'm just trying to figure out how to get this box open love

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environmentally friendly packaging and you can see that Noctua has not a single

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piece of foam in their entire package it's all perfectly recyclable corrugated

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cardboard love it all right so the first thing we see is the bottom view of the

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heat sink where we will find six heat pipes this is not a heat pipe direct

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touch heat sink although that's never stopped Noctua from being at or near the

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very top of the performance charts in the past because they do use a very high

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quality heat pipe as well as the pretty

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much the best manufacturing that I've seen everything is always really really

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really tight to whatever their specification happens to be just looks

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really sharp okay so right on the bottom you can see we've got our six heat pipes

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we've got the whole base is uh s soldered together all right you can see

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there's a small fin on the bottom so I guess you'll get a tiny tiny bit of

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cooling out of that you actually got trying to figure out what that is but uh

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hold on oh okay it looks like it can actually be removed somehow okay okay

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sorry guys sorry guys I got I got a little distracted there okay so the noct

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toell mounting mechanism that I that I love so much so it's a solid piece of

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metal that's actually screwed in here I've seen some of their coolers in the

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past where you actually have to attach this piece but um what you'll have to do

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is you install the mounting hardware around the outside of whatever your CPU

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uh type is and then you just screw these two onto the mounting hardware that goes

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onto the motherboard so how are you going to do that you might ask because

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clearly looking at it you're not going to be able to to to screw that in very

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easily but there is a solution nocta has thought of everything so I'm going to go

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ahead and show you guys how this works and I actually really like their system

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for mounting fans too it's uh quite a bit easier than a lot of the other ones

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that I've seen you just do that okay so

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they've actually built in holes here and they give you an included screwdriver

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that is long enough and slim enough to

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reach that's it that's their solution to the problem so you can reach all the way

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through even with that fan installed you can access the screw and then you can

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screw it in from the top just like

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that very very nice love noct to his

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design now they've got a huge cooler here for what is a downdraft CPU Cooler

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they've got very thick fins and they've actually used what is um traditionally

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Noctua uses a wider spacing on a lot of their coolers but they've got a very

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narrow fin spacing and I think the reason they've done that is they've got

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two High Press fans so while these are not high RPM fans these are NFP 14

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and they are designed along the same lines as the original uh 120 mm version

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of this fan and that means that they've got optimized static pressure whereas

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they're not optimized for high air flow where there's no resistance to the air

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so what that means is that if you've got a very high density heat sink you've got

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two fans that spin at low RPM but are optimized for lots of pressure you're

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still going to be able to push air through those tight fins so I'm actually

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going to remove the other fan and I want to talk a little bit about the advantages of using a downdraft CPU

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Cooler versus something like the D14 which is um as far as I know to this day

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the Undisputed performance king of CPU

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coolers so the advantage of this is that

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we get most of the performance of a monster like the D14 in a form factor

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that is a more likely to be compatible with your case because you don't have to

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deal with um any clearance issues with the side panel cuz the D14 is huge I

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mean it's like like this tall right off the CPU socket you also get the

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advantage of cooling all of the components around your CPU now what that

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means is that depending on how you position this you're going to be able to

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cool your vrm you're going to be able to cool your North Bridge you're going to

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be able to cool your RAM that sits under it and that makes for maybe not quite as

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good CPU temps like I said it doesn't perform as well as the D14 but it makes

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for much better temperatures for all of the other things

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that are around it so you're looking at better overall system reliability if you

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can keep everything well within spec and running nice and cool nocta also builds

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in like I've seen some pretty cheesy approaches to anti vibration I mean

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nocta is all about silence so they build in these little rubber mounts that are

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going to uh to stop the fan vibrations from being passed along to the heat sink

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and then by extension the CPU motherboard and then case so that's a

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really nice touch that I've seen on a lot of no to heat sinks and oh I figured

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out what that uh what that screw is so that screw bolts in this bracket which

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seems to provide some kind of uh additional support for the oh oh I get

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it okay so I guess if it's on this way it makes it so that it has a little bit

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more support and doesn't put pressure on the heat pipes from uh from the weight

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here in shipping if it gets bounced around that's another thing NC ships a

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lot of PC systems and one of the ones that we've had the most success with

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when shipping or transporting systems is Nota that's when some of the reasons I

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like their mounting system so much so I

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want to look at the Box quickly see if there's anything I missed high clearance

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mode oh yeah high clearance mode versus low profile mode haha that's smart so

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you don't have to mount two fans on here you can do one or two so you can

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actually do one on the bottom and that turns this Extreme Performance heat sink

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into a very lowprofile solution so you can fit it even in some htpcs as long as

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you've got enough clearance or you can put it in up on the top if that works

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better for you let's say you've got something under it like tall RAM modules

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down here that you need to make room for so now you can put the fan on the top

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and then if you've got lots of room all around then you can put on both fans so

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there we go we've covered that particular aspect of it and then we've

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also got dual fan configuration yeah

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yeah we've talked about that and I think that's pretty much everything on here oh

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yeah they include their nth1 thermal compound which is pretty good stuff

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I totally missed that as we were unboxing all the accessories so thank

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you for checking out the unboxing and first look at the Noctua

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