NH-D14

Doomedspeed · 13 Feb 2013 at 19:56

I recently got this cooler for my birthday and just wanted to share with you people some of my findings, also a little help with my overclocking.

I am in love with the D14; i upgraded from an old H50 (push/pull SP120's) .

Before:

After:

The temps are so much better, had it running at 4.4 on the H50 though the temps were a bit high.

The D14 has no problems with it.

Nearly 15C less.. Crazy.

And i went higher

4.5Ghz

4.6Ghz

Just playing around with my OC settings at the moment.

Apart from 4.6Ghz, All the rest were tested for around 4 hours each, the 15 minutes bursts you see ae just to show you the top temps, as i found the top temp was normally reached in the first 15 minutes of testing.

What do you all think? On your way out to buy a D14 yet?

wazza300 · 13 Feb 2013 at 20:00

already have one,its a great cooler,i swapped my fans for two akasa apache's though,i found the non pwm fans too loud for me

panyan · 13 Feb 2013 at 20:07

Doomedspeed said:
On your way out to buy a D14 yet?

can i really justify getting a third?

sorry, i couldnt resist *smug face*

greenbrucelee · 13 Feb 2013 at 21:30

yep I have one, I idle at 24 degrees c in BIOS at full load 2500k 4.5GHz 58 degrees c in prime 68 in IBT.

hardkore · 13 Feb 2013 at 21:47

Damn decent temps for air. My water loop gets to 63c at 4.7ghz on the hottest core. How fast have you got the fans?

Doomedspeed · 13 Feb 2013 at 21:52

hardkore said:
Damn decent temps for air. My water loop gets to 63c at 4.7ghz on the hottest core. How fast have you got the fans?

NF P12 - 1300
NF P14 - 1200
NF S12 - 1200

That's full for all of them.

Amazingly quiet too considering.

Though my front intake fan (only other fan) is at Half speed as it's damn load on high.

hardkore · 13 Feb 2013 at 22:20

Good stuff

Uncle Petey · 13 Feb 2013 at 22:21

Nice one.
Fwiw, a single TY-140 or 147 at 1000rpm in the centre of a K2 keeps my 2500k @4.5ghz/1.368-1.376v* at 62c max in prime.
Since the K2 and D14 are virtually the same performance wise, it might be worth a £5.99 punt

*Auto voltage coz I'm lazy...

doyll · 14 Feb 2013 at 01:38

I think TY-140 series are great fans.. and with the TY-147 at the bargain price of £5.99 how can you not use them? NH-D14 looks good in black and white

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-104-TR&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=1816

MOOGLEYS · 14 Feb 2013 at 02:20

I have a D14 with PWM fans cooling my 2500k. Such a fantastic and quite cooler really cannot be beaten tbh.

Uncle Petey · 14 Feb 2013 at 02:46

There you go. Just one of these fans works a treat

Doomedspeed · 14 Feb 2013 at 16:23

Great temps Petey. I bet that's quiet.

j.col · 14 Feb 2013 at 17:11

Have had a D14 for a couple of years now, will never replace it if i can help it.
Also Noctua has brilliant customer support.
OP has just found out what us D14 owners already know, its just a brilliant piece of kit.

Rubicant · 14 Feb 2013 at 17:42

That is a great result but my goodness you pay for it in case space. And i thought my Tranquillo was large!

wazza300 · 14 Feb 2013 at 17:52

Rubicant said:
That is a great result but my goodness you pay for it in case space. And i thought my Tranquillo was large!

you wanna see a thermalright silver arrow,its taller than the noctua d14,i only just sqeezed it in my case

Geeman1979 · 14 Feb 2013 at 17:57

j.col said:
Have had a D14 for a couple of years now, will never replace it if i can help it.
Also Noctua has brilliant customer support.
OP has just found out what us D14 owners already know, its just a brilliant piece of kit.

Agreed! had mine for a similar length of time. Wont be changing mine anytime soon unless I decided to go for a full water cooling setup.

Rubicant · 14 Feb 2013 at 18:38

wazza300 said:
you wanna see a thermalright silver arrow,its taller than the noctua d14,i only just sqeezed it in my case

Tbh id rather have a large heatsink, at least until closed loop water coolers like h80i are as quiet or silent.

Silence > Heat

Sycho · 14 Feb 2013 at 19:57

Do you guys know if this case fits fine in a Raven 2? how does it compare with this too http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-020-AL ?

Nice temps by the way and i am not that impressed with my Megahalems....needs two vipers on full speed to make load temps good.

Uncle Petey · 14 Feb 2013 at 19:59

It'll fit and they perform about the same.

setter · 14 Feb 2013 at 20:01

Uncle Petey said:
There you go. Just one of these fans works a treat

Hopefully be getting a pair of TY-147's next week to try out on the k2. Should be interesting to see how they compare to the piranhas.

@Sycho, the k2 is a cracker of a cooler. Max temp of 69c on my old i7 920 @4.2ghz, using the stock supplied fans. I got the k2 as a replacement for the super megahelims, also had vipers on it. 77c max at 100% load.