- excellent cooling - easy to install - easy to clean - cools my 5950X and 3950X builds nicely sub 30 C
keeps my ryzen 5800x at a reasonable temperature. Installation brackets are high quality and easy to install.
- Pretty quiet. - Keeps my 9700X (I know I should've gotten 7800X3D, but here we are) that is undervolted to -15mV to at most 75 degrees celcius while gaming. - Easy to install on AM5 socket.
- hefty, solid design - quiet - nicely packaged
I have a home server that I recently upgraded from a Celeron to a low power i5-4590S CPU. I used the stock Intel cooler but I was seeing idle temperature in the 40's and maximum temperatures during heavy CPU usage hitting low 90's (Celsius). My server doubles as an HTPC in a theater room so I required something cooler, something quieter. It's common knowledge that Noctua makes some high quality, high performing, and very quiet cooling solutions. I've used Noctua fans in the past but never ponied up the money for one of their heatsinks until now. My server case (Fractal Design Node 605) is height limited. A larger cooler will not fit and smaller coolers don't perform well or are too noisy if they do. This heatsink fit perfectly into my limited space server case. In my situation, the NH-U9S dropped my server/HTPC CPU idle temperatures but more importantly a Prime95 burn test maxes out the CPU at 67 °C. That is 25 °C lower than what I was getting with the stock Intel cooler. Better still, I cannot hear anything from this cooler even during the Prime95 burn testing.
It was a little larger than I expected and should do a very good job cooling most CPUs. The fan and radiator looked good, and the pipes were sturdy, not cheap or flimsy at all.
keeps my 12600k nice and cool looks nice easy to install
Super easy installation. Very quiet. High quality. Worth every dollar.
Assembly was easy and a Youtube video let me know what to expect both in its assembly and aesthetics
Clears RAM without issue and does not interfere with GPU in the top PCIE slot. Several mm away from top of 4u case
- Does not block any RAM slots on an ASRock B360 Pro4 motherboard unless your RAM sticks have cooling fins. - Fits in a 4U rackmount case with about an inch of space between the lid and top of cooling fins
Bought this for my X470 Ryzen 2700X, but I realised I threw my AMD stock backplate away and couldn't install this. Contacted Noctua and they quickly sent a backplate free of charge over to me from Austria. This is just fantastic service. Installed it after that, works like a dream. Sounds like a Chinook flying next to me when I am playing heavy duty games, its awesome.
Colorful, Full range RGB w/ configurable areas on the fan (Logo, fan, ring), quiet when I want it to be, low profile, fits perfect on lower cpus even if designed for Ryzen 7-9, probably cools better too.