NH-U12S

Coojeekitten · 27 Nov 2019 at 13:01

I'm aiming to get a tower cooler for when I build my new pc.

Asus Prime X299-A II, i9-10980xe, Lian-Li 021 Air. Maybe a very mild oc for the hell of it.

I'm new to tower coolers, is it possible to set the cooler fan to that it aligns to the case flow? ie front fans blowing in, rear fan blowing out?

cyber69 · 27 Nov 2019 at 15:30

I've just built a new AMD Ryzen system using the Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4 which is the AMD only version of the cooler. As you can see with my pic it's quite a compact cooler yet powerful and you could add another fan to the rear
of the cooler making it a push > pull dual fan config.

orbitalwalsh · 27 Nov 2019 at 15:55

Coojeekitten said:
I'm aiming to get a tower cooler for when I build my new pc.

Asus Prime X299-A II, i9-10980xe, Lian-Li 021 Air. Maybe a very mild oc for the hell of it.

I'm new to tower coolers, is it possible to set the cooler fan to that it aligns to the case flow? ie front fans blowing in, rear fan blowing out?

shame Master is £100 - Stronger 70amps phases vs ASUS 60amps

Coojeekitten · 27 Nov 2019 at 18:31

orbitalwalsh said:
shame Master is £100 - Stronger 70amps phases vs ASUS 60amps

Not sure what you mean, is Shame Master a brand?

Coojeekitten · 27 Nov 2019 at 18:34

cyber69 said:
I've just built a new AMD Ryzen system using the Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4 which is the AMD only version of the cooler. As you can see with my pic it's quite a compact cooler yet powerful and you could add another fan to the rear
of the cooler making it a push > pull dual fan config.

That's a very tidy install, nice work! I see you have Noctura case fans too? Which graphics card is that in there?

Coojeekitten · 27 Nov 2019 at 18:42

Coojeekitten said:
Not sure what you mean, is Shame Master a brand?

Gotit, Gigabyte. They do one for £100? I need 3x M.2 sockets.

orbitalwalsh · 27 Nov 2019 at 19:22

Coojeekitten said:
Gotit, Gigabyte. They do one for £100? I need 3x M.2 sockets.

Aorus master x299 (new version ) is £350 odd

doyll · 27 Nov 2019 at 19:27

Coojeekitten said:
I'm aiming to get a tower cooler for when I build my new pc.

Asus Prime X299-A II, i9-10980xe, Lian-Li 021 Air. Maybe a very mild oc for the hell of it.

I'm new to tower coolers, is it possible to set the cooler fan to that it aligns to the case flow? ie front fans blowing in, rear fan blowing out?

Well, your Lian-Li 021 Air only has room for 155mm tall coolers .. so most (if not all) 140mm fanned towers are to tall to fit in case .. even some 120mm fanned coolers are too tall.

Scythe Muge 5 and Fuma 2 are 154.5mm tall and are quite good.

Too bad Thermalright isn't in more retail outlets. They have Silver Arrow 130 that is only 130mm tall and Macho 120 is 150mm tall.

cyber69 · 28 Nov 2019 at 08:21

Coojeekitten said:
That's a very tidy install, nice work! I see you have Noctura case fans too? Which graphics card is that in there?

The gpu is a GTX1070 which will be swapped out for my RTX2070s after i’ve done initial testing etc

Coojeekitten · 28 Nov 2019 at 08:39

cyber69 said:
The gpu is a GTX1070 which will be swapped out for my RTX2070s after i’ve done initial testing etc

Thanks

Coojeekitten · 28 Nov 2019 at 08:41

doyll said:
Well, your Lian-Li 021 Air only has room for 155mm tall coolers .. so most (if not all) 140mm fanned towers are to tall to fit in case .. even some 120mm fanned coolers are too tall.

Thanks, I have another thread about this, I found it out watching a video yesterday - it's a bit if a bummer. I like Lian-Li cases.

Relentless81 · 2 Dec 2019 at 18:26

I would recommend the Dark Rock 4 none Pro over the U12S

Cheaper and performs very similar

doyll · 2 Dec 2019 at 19:14

With near the same performanceNH-U12S is £56.99 and Dark Rock 4 is £62.99. But the problem is Lian-Li 021 only has room for 155mm tall coolers so neither will fit. If it was a case with 171mm of CPU clearance I would suggest TRUE Spirit 140 Power. It cools or better than any cooler as well as is just as quiet .. and for fifty quid it is the lowest priced top tier cooler made .. but it's fins also reach 77.5mm both sides meaning it blocks PCIe sockets on some otherboards.