Noctua NH-L12S, Premium Low Profile CPU Cooler with Quiet 120mm PWM Fan (Brown)

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Like all Noctua fans, the supplied NF-A12x15 features an MTTF rating of more than 150,000 hours and the entire NH-L12S package comes with a full 6-year manufacturer’s warranty. The second point about the fan pushing air upwards is the affect it has on motherboard/system cooling. Other changes include an increase in height of the heatsink up to 70mm (was 66mm) to allow fan clearance above standard height RAM. With CPUs rated at more than 100W of heat output, single graphics boards carrying similar ratings (and people want to run two! Unfortunately, mainboard manufacturers tend to change certain components and heatsinks without pointing it out by using corresponding revision names.

Passionate about testing and reviewing, AMD overclocking using AM3 990FXA and AMD FM2 A85X test systems and building modding projects. multiple hard drives the norm, lots of memory and mainboards covered in heatpipes to combat toasty core logic and PWM circuits, a PC appreciably warming up a room when it’s working hard is no joke. This cooler features the typical for the company silver/brown/pink colour scheme which when placed inside entirely black case, doesn’t really fit well but this is just my point of view.This way, it is fully compatible with chipset coolers and RAM modules with heat-spreaders of up to 48mm in height (vs.

While it provides first-rate performance in its class, it is not suitable for overclocking and should be used with care on CPUs with more than 95W TDP (Thermal Design Power). and when it is used with the fan the maximum airflow level that NF-A12x15 PWM can achieve is 70,8 m³/h with noise level of 16,8 dB(A).

The NH-L12S also matched the temperature of the Big Shuriken 2 when using the same fan (Noctua A12x15 PWM), but not quite when compared against Scythe’s own fan, although it should be noted that Scythe’s fan achieves this at much louder noise levels. With 8 cores and 16 threads under the hood, the 1700 doesn’t get that much use, so here you will have excellent CPU temperature numbers. The built-in fan supports the automatic regulation of the rotational speed by pulse width modulation (PWM). Replacing the NH-L12, (instead of being sold alongside like the NH-L9a-AM4 above) the NH-L12s takes advantage of the new slim 120mm fan that Noctua recently released.