Noctua NH-D14 - What a monster!
Published by Marc Büchel on 22.04.10Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| With the NH-D14, Nocta presents a very powerful and very well manufactured aircooler which also comes with a lot of accessories. So much high-end comes at a price, that's for sure but these days you wont find many other products available on the market that are able to compete with the NH-D14. Also regarding the cooling capacity Noctua shows what is actually possible with aircoolers and takes the first place in our comparison tables. | -
Performance - Manufacturing quality - Delivery |
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| Installation | + | - | |
| Reflecting the mounting process, Noctua comes up with a solution which is suitable for this very good cooler. By using different backplates for each socket it is possible to mount the cooler quickly and very safely on all recent platforms. Furthermore two fans can be installed on the cooler. Compared to the NH-U12P for example Noctua has also improved the fan mounting. Now the fans and the cooler carry antivibration rubbers and even the clamping mechanism is much easier to use now. | - Perfect fit | - Incompatibility first DIMM-Slot | |
| Performance | + | - | |
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If you drive the fans with 12 volts they are subjectively slient. As we drove the fans at 7 Volts, with 1'000 rpm respectively 900 rpm resulting, we could see that the performance decreased way less then with all the other coolers in our comparison table. Therefore you see that this cooler has been optimized for fans with low rotation speeds. Furthermore with the fans at lower rotations speeds the cooler becomes subjectively very silent. |
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Cooling capacity - Very silent |
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| Recommendation | + | - | |
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With the NH-D14 Noctua designed an aircooler which is almost on a level of its own. According to its price this absolute high-end cooler is suitable for PC-enthusiasts, gamer and overclocker who want to have a very silent system or get even the last MHz out of their CPU. |
- PC-Enthusiasts - Gamer - Overclocker |
You can buy the Noctua NH-D14 at Digitec.ch to a price of CHF 114.- (EUR 81.-).
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Author: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch
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