We review two coolers from Noctua, the NH-D9L and NH-U9S CPU coolers. These can be used with any motherboard and CPU combo but focus on Micro ATX and Mini ITX. They are small, deadly silent but do p... Review: Noctua NH-D9L and NH-U9S CPU coolers
I personally like to see Noctua make GPU Coolers aswell. We already have Arctic Cooling, which is the Noctua of GPU Cooling, but id like to see Noctua themselves give it a go.
Just on time when i'm searching for new cooler for my Mini ITX build I noticed that the test only tests the NH-U9S with two fan. i wonder what's the performance of NH-D9L when it comes equipped with 2 fans? I can imagine that the front fins doesn't get much pressurized air hence lower performance. I do think that NH-D9L should perform better because of the alignment of the heatpipes is perpendicular to the Long and vertical Ivy Bridge/Haswell die which will make its heat get spread out better.
I don't think the NH-D9L is a very good design as it will always drag cool air over one side of the heat sink and push now warmed air over the other.
Noctua's MITX coolers really have only been the only ones worth it in my experience. I've tried others from Zalman for example, and they just don't keep temps down well enough in that small of a case.
this Noctua CPU coolers has a really nice design, sadly the performance/price ratio isn't generally good in this brand. the air cooling segment have remain untouched for years, i really hope to see something different soon, you know... y love noisy computers.
im sold i want one for my next build those are as good if not better then temps i get with my HSF setup only in much smaller packages. Then again that is also more expensive then most coolers
Pretty interesting little cooler. Decent, considering the size. Ps: Why are the graphs mirrored? It messes with my head massively lol .
