Getting rid of my NH-D14

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It's served me well for the past two years but I want something different. I'm not too bothered about performance but I hear great things about the H100i and it'd free up a lot of room for airflow in the case than it has now. (Plus when i was cleaning one of the fans on the NH-D14 I accidently broke one of the fins and now I've lost the clips. still even with one fan the cooling hasn't changed at all.)

I've also been toying with the idea of getting a black Prolimatech Megahelms and completely revamping the case colour scheme to a nice black and white type deal once I get my new motherboard next week.

Thing is, everyone says the H100i is a minimal step up from the DH-14, is this true? I've looked around and I can't seem to find anything to prove is substantially.
 
The megahelims could actually be a downgrade from your D14. I replaced a prolimatech super mega with a dual tower cooler, (alpenfohn k2). The k2 is about equal to the noctua. Got a 9c drop in temps with my old i7 920 @4.2ghz. The megahelims was a lot louder too as it needed high speed fans to get the best from it.

Cant comment on the H100i as i havent used it. But there are reports that the stock fans are a bit loud. And replacing theese adds more cost to what is already a pretty expensive peice of kit.
 
Really no point in upgrading unless you want to downsize the whole case, the performance difference is 5c while being a fair bit quieter than the h100i. You could always ask the company for a replacement clip & buy a new fan.

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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/h100i-elc240-seidon-240m-lq320,3380-12.html
 
mjones1 said:
Really no point in upgrading unless you want to downsize the whole case, the performance difference is 5c while being a fair bit quieter than the h100i. You could always ask the company for a replacement clip & buy a new fan.
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See, I was considering that, but I don't have my original sales invoice, unless they'd accept a screenshot of the order from my account on here. I dunno, I've got a week or so to think about it yet.

Thanks for the Tom's Hardware graph, after a week of googling I don't know why I didn't stumble across that. :confused:
 
Stick with the D14 any change will either be a downgrade or a sidegrade just not worth it.
 
C64 said:
Stick with the D14 any change will either be a downgrade or a sidegrade just not worth it.
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Agreed. The NH-D14 is excellent - mine replaced an original H100 which was only any good with higher fan speeds which I felt were too loud.

I also had a Megahelms in my previous machine, it's good but the NH-D14 is better.
 
E-mailed Noctua about some replacement fan clips, should have a reply in a few days. I think I'll get a couple of those TY-147s to put on it, they sound too good to pass up to be honest.
I think my DH-14 will just need a thourough clean as it looked pretty caked with dust when I opened the case earlier (Stock fan on my HAF-X bearings are going I think, only had it a month. =/).

Any suggestions with that? Ciompressed air doesn't seem like it's going to get rid of everything, even if I go use my neighbours air compressor.

Was thinking of completely disassembling it and blasting some water through it and letting it dry naturally for half a day unless there's some other solution to get everything between the fins.

Thanks anyway guys, you just saved me £99.98.
 
Ive washed tower coolers with a shower on power setting. Seems to be the only solid way to get dust out from between the fins. Dry it overnight in an airing cupboard or put it on a radiator.
 
TY-147 great fans. I'm running their ugly older twin brother TY-140 and have for long time.

If you put a TY-147 in back exhaust you could us a PWM splitter with molex power to run cooler and rear exhaust on same PWM signal.. and exhaust would run same speed as cooler. ;) I run my intakes that way as everything in my case is PWM
 
setter said:
Ive washed tower coolers with a shower on power setting. Seems to be the only solid way to get dust out from between the fins. Dry it overnight in an airing cupboard or put it on a radiator.
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Yeah, warm water is good. Be sure to dry it out thoroughly else it may tarnish
 
I haven't seen any new Silver Arrows in long time. Silver Arrow SB-E is maybe 1c better than stock NH-D14.
Put same fans on both and which will be best???
 
Silver Arrow is a win for me ;) Pointless for me to get SB-E because it no difference to my old silver arrow, just swap the fans and it all done! I had Noctua NH-D14 here. And silver arrow beat Noctua by 6c degree off
 
Indeed.
I have an old Cogage Arrow.. Same beast. Wonderful cooler. Would be using it now if I hadn't been given TC14PE a year ago, and a SA SB-E Extreme for Xmas.

Thinking of getting some TY-147's just because they are so cheap. Nothing I know of compares for £6.00
 
^This.

Also, Spectre fans are crap on heatsinks :) I've tried those very one's and they compared poorly in terms of noise and temps compared to the stock Alpenfohn 120mm's. The same would apply in comparison to the stock Noctua fans.

Edit: on a K2, but it's virtually the same thing.

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Should've been 147's. Got sent the wrong ones and couldn't be bothered to send them back...
 
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Doomedspeed said:
Why don't you think the 140mm will fit?

The Standard Middle Fan is 140mm..
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I dunno, I know the middle fan is 140mm but has 120 mounts, the Spectre 140 is a 140 mount. I'll probably just get a couple of TY-147s tomorrow, now I need to find my TIM cleaner. Ha.

Although,the Corsair SP120's have just caught my eye..
 
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