9. SoccerBallPenguin. • 2 yr. ago. You'll have to measure the amount you'll have to move up the fan and add that to the CPU cooler's height. I know the 500 dx (and other cases with a 140mm rear exhaust mount) should have a fairly large CPU cooler clearance. Alternatively you could remove the fan / mount it to the back.
These are my temps on cinebench. "Best turbo/overclocking headroom", so yes. "Standing 158mm tall, the NH-U12A is short enough to fit most modern mid- or high-end tower cases." U12A absolutely fine for me on a 12700K. Admittedly, I am using a high airflow case (Corsair 7000D) but am also only running 2x intake and 1x exhaust.
It's simpler to install and more reliable. Water cooling would get you a little bit better temps for the noise. For Ryzen 7000 a water cooler probably isn't a bad option, but then neither is a D15 or U12A. If you're going a 7900x or 7950x I would heavily weigh up water cooling. 7600x or 7700x I would probably tend toward high end air cooling
Your results are similar to others comparing the NH-D14 and NH-D15. Bottom line is NH-D15 brings Noctua back on par with other top coolers like PH-TC14PE, Silver Arrow IB-E, Cryorig R1 Ultimate, etc. Considering the age of NH-D14, being only a few degrees warmer than newest releases is impressive.
I've upgraded from an i7-4790K to the i9-12900K a couple of months ago and have reused the NH-D15. While the previous processor was happily sitting at about 60 degrees at full load, the 12900K is quite a bit hotter, topping out at 90 (idle about 30 while regular workload seems to be around 50-60). I understand fully the 12900K is a power hungry
The Noctua NH-D14 is still a great air CPU cooler that offers a great performance. The performance difference between the Noctua NH-D14 and the newer NH-D15 is approximately 2 degrees Celsius. This means that if you already have the NH-D14, then upgrading to the NH-D15 purely for a performance gain is not a good idea.
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