** NOCTUA NH-D15 & NEW EXTREME PERFORMANCE SECTION **

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Simon42 said:
I tried both the NH-D14 and the Phanteks PH-TC14PE and cooling was very similar, but more importantly the Phanteks sounded quieter or smoother, something I put down to having two identical size fans out of the box.

I see the NH-D15 comes with two of the same fan so that may resolve that issue without an expensive fan swap. However I don't think that's enough for me to overlook the colour issue!
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I always hear this about the fan noise with the noctua and phanteks will be interesting to find out how the NH-D15 sounds if its that annoying whoosh or just a calm sound!
 
I agree with Rich (rjk) as I remember I use to have NH-D14 bolt kit as one of it was broken pin and I had contact Noctua and they sent me a new replacement bolt kit free of charge and arrived within 5 days first class.

Noctua is the best warranty service come across with it. But, indeed I get rid of brown colour fans and use a viper fan instead, all is fine! The DH-D14 is very easy to installed, straight forward much easier than Thermalright Silver Arrow.
 
Yeah that's correct. I use 1900RPM viper fan, just one fan with PWM as it look more sexy with black/yellow fan.

I just wish Noctua can stock CPU Cooler without ugly brown fans to save money and can purchase viper fan instead.

I think there is a new viper fan with 140mm (not sure thought)
 
yes the new viper fan it awesome!

perhaps even better for your current NH-D14 cooler if you still use it?
 
While on the subject, do you simply rip off the fan mounts of the stock Noctua fans, or is there a way to tenderly remove them, and use them on other fans? I genuinely hate that my Noctua fans aren't PWM.
 
I think if you're really worried about the looks cos your pc has window you're more likely to just use an AIO water cooler anyway, rather than a huge chunk of metal; i have noctua PWM fans on my phantek cooler...so much quieter.
 
smilertoo said:
I think if you're really worried about the looks cos your pc has window you're more likely to just use an AIO water cooler anyway, rather than a huge chunk of metal; i have noctua PWM fans on my phantek cooler...so much quieter.
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Surely the other way around? AIO coolers look horrendous, I'd sooner see a nice air cooler any day than any closed loop cooler.
 
MonsterMoshi said:
You on something? :rolleyes:
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Are you? I've never understood the attraction of closed loop coolers, give me something from Prolimatech, Thermalright or Phanteks any day! Proper water cooling, sure, that's on another level in every way and I'd much prefer a custom loop to air or closed loop, but taking that out of the equation I would never consider closed loop myself, and a large part of that would be because IMO they look terrible.
 
looks good, fans are weird, but that's their thing, you can always change them.

performance should be good, although not sure it'd offer enough of an upgrade over me k2 to really be worth it. good for a new buy though.
 
I really must applaud Noctua. I've just fitted an NH-U12S and not only was it the easiest cooler to fit that I've ever had the temps are insane. Even though mine is one of the smaller ones. Clearly a lot of thought has gone into the whole package. I know they are pricey but IMHO it's worth it.
 
Seems I'm getting some abuse here....

rjkoneill said:
lol.

a good air cooler is better than an AIO every single day of the week.

reserve your roll eyes smilie for when it is absolutely 100% necessary please.
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Performance wise, there is no way I could argue that a top air cooler is more efficient but a closed loop system looks far tidier than a huge air cooler imo which was the point I was trying (albeit potentially failing) to make
 
Who cares about looks and windows on cases. Jesus people may as well buy the pc a manbag and put it in skinny jeans. Cooling is what's important and how well it does it.

This is better than a H100i does not need the noisy fans replacing and is cheaper. People need to man up get rid of the poncy windows and use a decent cooler and overclock.

:D
 
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