Noctua NH-C12P SE14 140mm Fan Heatpipe CPU Heatsink Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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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
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fairly close together and the reason for that is that nocta just launched their
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140 mil fan so this is an updated version of the NH c12p and it is the
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se14 which as you may or may not have guessed stands for special edition 14 cm
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fan okay so there you go so let's get this open this is not a tower heat sink
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this is actually a more traditional uh blowing down style of heat sink and the
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reason for that is not everybody has room in their case for these giant Tower
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heat sinks that go out of the side of your motherboard I mean the one that we
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unboxed recently the the D14 is just huge and you don't always have space for
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that you don't always have clearance so a more top down design is good for that
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and it's also good if you need more cooling for the surrounding components
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around your motherboard because the fan will actually contribute to mosfet
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cooling as well as RAM cooling all that other stuff the tradeoff is that it
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doesn't cool the CPU quite as well which many people are happy to make so let's
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dive into the accessories here first we have a metal noock case badge very
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classy very stylish then we have their low noise and ultra low noise adapters
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so 7 and 5 volts basically then we have a couple of fan clips and a tube of
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their nt1 thermal compound which you will need to spread on the CPU then we
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have the AMD mounting hardware okay so their SKU firm mounting system includes
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both AMD and Intel this Intel mounting hardware you can see by all the
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different mounting holes here is actually good for 775 1156 and 1366 it
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uses all thumb screws and stuff very nice I love to see that and then they've
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done their classy little manual thing here where you open it up and you got
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the Intel instructions in one side and the AMD structions instruct AMD
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structions AMD instructions in the other side very cool it's all colorcoded I
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should probably just do a quick uh show that really quickly here so they show
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you all the different steps and colors should be quite simple to install like
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all of their coolers have been in the past okay so let's get down to the c12p
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se14 here if I can figure out how to get
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the Box open then that will be a major stride for me okay so it actually
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ships okay with you able to see the 140
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mm fan through the front now this 140 mm
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fan is a pretty new product for Noctua unlike all of the other 140 mil fans on
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the market it uses a circular frame and the reason they've done that is because
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it actually has 120 mm mounting holes
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now if you buy the uh the fan Standalone you can actually get 140 mm adapters but
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it's pretty cool that they allow you to mount a larger fan on a smaller uh
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mounting hole okay they ship it with a little piece of plastic I like attention
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to detail like this I love to see this between the fins and the fan so that
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nothing get scratched you don't get any plastic junk uh residue coming off on
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your fins keeps it nice and pristine looking so let's have a look at the
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cooler itself you've got okay a nickel
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plated copper base which will do the uh the obligatory finger shot to show the
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uh the shininess now it's not particularly reflective but Noctua takes
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great pride in how flat their bases is their bases are all your base something
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either way reflectiveness is not necessarily an indication of flatness so
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we have six heat pipes coming into the bottom here which are all oriented to
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come up into their sort of radiator
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array here now I'm not sure why they've made this design decision where they're
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leaving out some of the fins here but I'm sure there's a very good reason for
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it and I just want to give you a couple more angles here before we wrap up our
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unboxing so you can see the noct to a branding there oh I see why they've done
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it because these ones are connected directly to the base I'm sorry I totally
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missed that wow blonde moment there okay so thank you for checking out my
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unboxing and product overview of the NH
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c12p se14