Noctua nh-d14 New king of coolers?

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Installation of the mounting bracket and cpu cooler was quite easy, however its not a five minnute job as you have to remove the motherboard, gpu ect.
Instructions clear and consice
It just say fits in my antec 300 case height wise.
It also covers a few ram slots.
I fitted it with the noctua thermal compound provided. a screwdriver is also provided.
Ok lets get down to some benchmarking!!!
Im going to compare the results against my corsair h50
Room ambient temp 29 degs

No load
corsair h50 42,39,45,38
noctua nh-d14 35,30,37,29

20 runs linX 8threads max mem available

Corsair h50 76,75,76,72
Noctua nh-d14 69,67,70,64

The noctua on average with no load is 8.25 degs lower than the h50
and on the linX test is 7.25 degs lower than the h50.

IS THE NOCTUA NH-D14 THE NEW KING OF AIR COOLERS?
 
Mine comes tomorrow :D
Hopefully my results will be as good as yours, nothing to compare them to though.


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Jason_AJB said:
Mine comes tomorrow :D
Hopefully my results will be as good as yours, nothing to compare them to though.


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You will not be disappointed.
The h50 is about on par with the mega but since the n14 blows away the h50 i cannot see the mega fareing much better.

I just thought i mention you can change the mounting bracket so you can exshaust through the roof of you case. not sure if if block any of the ram slots though.
 
Picture needs to be bigger,
It only just fits onto my 2x 24" screens :/

EDIT: You can't really compare the H50 to that feasibly. The NH-D14 is the size of a small child...
 
That thing is HUGE!!!

Looks like using RAM with tall heatsinks would be a no-no with fans fitted on the RAM side of the heatsink?

Really nice temps though, is this with your chip running at 3.8GHz?
 
Good benchmarks but if it covers even 1 ram slot with a fan on that will stop a lot of people from buying it.

If you want the best temps you'll want to use 2 or probably 3 fans on it, and you won't want ram slots covered.
 
That is one beast of a cooler, definitely wouldnt fit in my rig due to my ocz reaper ram, temps are very similair to what i get with a lapped TRUE black at 3.8ghz, 70-65-67-64, rising 2-3c when at 4ghz.
 
Jason_AJB said:
http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=faqs&step=2&products_id=34&lng=en#13

^ Specifys the dimensions and ram compatability.

Using the geil ram myself so won't be a problem for me, can see how it will stop a few others buying it though.
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You can raise the fan covering the ram by uncliping and moving it up provideing your case is big enough. If think i could move the fan up by about 15mm(antec 300) dont know what effect this will have on cooling though.
If you turn the cpu cooler around so the top exit is the exsuuast i dont think it will any of the ram slots.
Going to try this at weekend and see if any temp differences aswell.
 
Aye was like that a bit when i built outside the case, some of the board mounting screws hadnt been tightened down properly.
 
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