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Is it moved 8mm to one side for more gpu backplate clearance?
As far as actual measurements who knows, as you said no detailed spec pdf on their website. From the product photos it does look shifted in a similar fashion.
I meant this
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Is it moved 8mm to one side for more gpu backplate clearance?
System Name | Firelance. |
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Processor | Threadripper 3960X |
Motherboard | ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming |
Cooling | IceGem 360 + 6x Arctic Cooling P12 |
Memory | 8x 16GB Patriot Viper DDR4-3200 CL16 |
Video Card(s) | MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Ventus 2X OC |
Storage | 2TB WD SN850X (boot), 4TB Crucial P3 (data) |
Display(s) | 3x AOC Q32E2N (32" 2560x1440 75Hz) |
Case | Enthoo Pro II Server Edition (Closed Panel) + 6 fans |
Power Supply | Fractal Design Ion+ 2 Platinum 760W |
Mouse | Logitech G602 |
Keyboard | Logitech G613 |
Software | Windows 10 Professional x64 |
Try undervolting it, from what I heard that will also prevent that chip from killing itself.I have a 14900k and a D15 gen1, for 250watt it's hard to keep it under 90c with excellent mounting and thermal paste application. And limited PL 1 and 2 to 253watt and ICCMax 307A with plenty of case ventilation.
Already did. I use Typical Case Scenario on SVID behavior (which lowers ACLL to 0.4mohm). DC LL is level 4 (1.0mohm). Disabled Synch AC/DC LL calibration (stupid default settings on recent z790 BIOSes).Try undervolting it, from what I heard that will also prevent that chip from killing itself.
I found where does the buzzing come from on my sample and how to easily fix it.I just identified that one of the lowest large fins buzzes in this spot on my sample:
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If I was keeping the cooler I would just bend these little ears so that they touch the fin above:
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Noctua is not only good for thermal performance, material quality, ease of installation and quietness are all additional great aspects. In addition to great customer service.Extremely expensive for what it offers. TR PS 120 Evo which is 1/3 the price of Noctua only 1 degree hot. Very bad price/performance ratio for Noctua. I wonder what will happen when TR release Royal Preytor Ultra. Not a good buy for conscious consumers.
Noctua is not only good for thermal performance, material quality, ease of installation and quietness are all additional great aspects. In addition to great customer service.
Did you just rewrite a sentence from Noctua brochure?Noctua is not only good for thermal performance, material quality, ease of installation and quietness are all additional great aspects. In addition to great customer service.
System Name | Mean machine |
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Processor | 12900k |
Motherboard | MSI Unify X |
Cooling | Noctua U12A |
Memory | 7600c34 |
Video Card(s) | 4090 Gamerock oc |
Storage | 980 pro 2tb |
Display(s) | Samsung crg90 |
Case | Fractal Torent |
Audio Device(s) | Hifiman Arya / a30 - d30 pro stack |
Power Supply | Be quiet dark power pro 1200 |
Mouse | Viper ultimate |
Keyboard | Blackwidow 65% |
Yeap, that's the whole point. People look at the price but forget this thing is going to outlast the user. You buy it once, you have it for life.I already using 13+ year my old Noctua D14 still original fan working silent, I even receive free mounting kit to AM4 currently using it with Am5. And his is oldest part in my PC![]()
What? You are saying that a cooler being designed and engineered and scrapped and started again from scratch several times is going to be expensive? Oh lord, who would have thoughtNoctua have never been about value. This is the best air cooler you can buy and the graphs confirm it. You can't use more than 1 cooler on a CPU, so the amount of coolers you can get for this is somewhat irrelevant. This cooler was never going to be about value, it was about Noctua engineering the very best air cooler, and they achieved that.
You're paying for the engineering that has gone into making this the best air cooler you can buy(R&D isn't cheap). You're also paying for top notch customer support, and if the past is anything to go by, future socket support at no-cost. That being said, this costs a bit too much with how close to the competition it is. I think a more reasonable price would be $100-130, and I think it'll get down to that ~$130 within the year.
Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D |
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Motherboard | ASUS B550M-Plus WiFi II |
Cooling | Noctua U12A chromax.black |
Memory | Corsair Vengeance 32GB 3600Mhz |
Video Card(s) | Palit RTX 4080 GameRock OC |
Storage | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB + 980 Pro 2TB |
Display(s) | Asus XG35VQ |
Case | Asus Prime AP201 |
Audio Device(s) | Creative Gigaworks - Razer Blackshark V2 Pro |
Power Supply | Corsair SF750 |
Mouse | Razer Viper |
Software | Windows 11 64bit |
Yeap, that's the whole point. People look at the price but forget this thing is going to outlast the user. You buy it once, you have it for life.
System Name | Mean machine |
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Processor | 12900k |
Motherboard | MSI Unify X |
Cooling | Noctua U12A |
Memory | 7600c34 |
Video Card(s) | 4090 Gamerock oc |
Storage | 980 pro 2tb |
Display(s) | Samsung crg90 |
Case | Fractal Torent |
Audio Device(s) | Hifiman Arya / a30 - d30 pro stack |
Power Supply | Be quiet dark power pro 1200 |
Mouse | Viper ultimate |
Keyboard | Blackwidow 65% |
If you are frequently change your coolers for no reason then noctua isn't for you. Nothing wrong with that, buy something else.For those who are willing to keep it for more than 10 years, the price is fine.
The problem is people get bored and want a change. So selling it, they lose money.
So you presume that Noctua will still exist in the next decades and supply several mounting uprages for their decades old coolers? And do you really believe that those plastic fans will last for decades?Yeap, that's the whole point. People look at the price but forget this thing is going to outlast the user. You buy it once, you have it for life.
System Name | Mean machine |
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Processor | 12900k |
Motherboard | MSI Unify X |
Cooling | Noctua U12A |
Memory | 7600c34 |
Video Card(s) | 4090 Gamerock oc |
Storage | 980 pro 2tb |
Display(s) | Samsung crg90 |
Case | Fractal Torent |
Audio Device(s) | Hifiman Arya / a30 - d30 pro stack |
Power Supply | Be quiet dark power pro 1200 |
Mouse | Viper ultimate |
Keyboard | Blackwidow 65% |
It's the only one company thus far that almost begged me not to buy one or their new coolers and just ask - free or charge - for a new mounting bracket. That's a company I want to support. I don't know if their fans will last for 10 years but they'll last twice as long as everyone else's so there is that.So you presume that Noctua will still exist in the next decades and supply several mounting uprages for their decades old coolers? And do you really believe that those plastic fans will last for decades?
What would they sell if they were only supporting their old coolers?
I have noctua fans that have been working almost 24/7 since 2011, and according to the gamers nexus interview they have customers who have been using the same fans since 2006.So you presume that Noctua will still exist in the next decades and supply several mounting uprages for their decades old coolers? And do you really believe that those plastic fans will last for decades?
What would they sell if they were only supporting their old coolers?
System Name | Firelance. |
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Processor | Threadripper 3960X |
Motherboard | ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming |
Cooling | IceGem 360 + 6x Arctic Cooling P12 |
Memory | 8x 16GB Patriot Viper DDR4-3200 CL16 |
Video Card(s) | MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Ventus 2X OC |
Storage | 2TB WD SN850X (boot), 4TB Crucial P3 (data) |
Display(s) | 3x AOC Q32E2N (32" 2560x1440 75Hz) |
Case | Enthoo Pro II Server Edition (Closed Panel) + 6 fans |
Power Supply | Fractal Design Ion+ 2 Platinum 760W |
Mouse | Logitech G602 |
Keyboard | Logitech G613 |
Software | Windows 10 Professional x64 |
And therein lies the problem with capitalism: companies are perversely disincentivised from producing high-quality products because such products provide a lesser revenue stream.What would they sell if they were only supporting their old coolers?
I mean while there are benefits to Noctua, many manufacturers will send/sell you adapters for older coolers. Sure Noctua will probably do it for free and have a good and fast support, but I would guess you probably could just contact Thermalright buy the adapter, and use a Thermalright Ultra 90/120 from 2006 with your new AM5/LGA1700 CPU, even if with some issues arise while doing so.Yeap, that's the whole point. People look at the price but forget this thing is going to outlast the user. You buy it once, you have it for life.
System Name | Firelance. |
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Processor | Threadripper 3960X |
Motherboard | ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming |
Cooling | IceGem 360 + 6x Arctic Cooling P12 |
Memory | 8x 16GB Patriot Viper DDR4-3200 CL16 |
Video Card(s) | MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Ventus 2X OC |
Storage | 2TB WD SN850X (boot), 4TB Crucial P3 (data) |
Display(s) | 3x AOC Q32E2N (32" 2560x1440 75Hz) |
Case | Enthoo Pro II Server Edition (Closed Panel) + 6 fans |
Power Supply | Fractal Design Ion+ 2 Platinum 760W |
Mouse | Logitech G602 |
Keyboard | Logitech G613 |
Software | Windows 10 Professional x64 |
And the required adapter can probably be found for a handful of $ on Ebay or AliExpress.I mean while there are benefits to Noctua, many manufacturers will send/sell you adapters for older coolers. Sure Noctua will probably do it for free and have a good and fast support, but I would guess you probably could just contact Thermalright buy the adapter, and use a Thermalright Ultra 90/120 from 2006 with your new AM5/LGA1700 CPU, even if with some issues arise while doing so.
BTW they do actually have the adapter for the mentioned cooler, but I have no personal experience on how it's to actually get it.
System Name | The Workhorse |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen R9 5900X |
Motherboard | Gigabyte Aorus B550 Pro |
Cooling | CPU - Noctua NH-D15S Case - 3 Noctua NF-A14 PWM at the bottom, 2 Fractal Design 180mm at the front |
Memory | GSkill Trident Z 3200CL14 |
Video Card(s) | NVidia GTX 1070 MSI QuickSilver |
Storage | Adata SX8200Pro |
Display(s) | LG 32GK850G |
Case | Fractal Design Torrent |
Audio Device(s) | FiiO E-10K DAC/Amp, Samson Meteorite USB Microphone |
Power Supply | Corsair RMx850 (2018) |
Mouse | Razer Viper (Original) |
Keyboard | Cooler Master QuickFire Rapid TKL keyboard (Cherry MX Black) |
Software | Windows 11 Pro (23H2) |
To be fair, it’s a hunk of aluminum. Unless you physically abuse it ANY such cooler will last a lifetime. There’s nothing to really break on them. Of course, Noctua fans ARE incredibly long lived too, but really, it’s up to one’s discretion to decide whether essentially paying 100-120 bucks over the competition just for said fans is something that’s worth said fans. Comes out to 50-60 bucks per fan which… eh, it is what it is.Yeap, that's the whole point. People look at the price but forget this thing is going to outlast the user. You buy it once, you have it for life.
System Name | 4K-gaming |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X |
Motherboard | Gigabyte B550M Aorus Elite |
Cooling | Arctic Freezer 50 |
Memory | 48GB Kingston DDR4-3200C16 |
Video Card(s) | Asus GeForce RTX 3080 TUF OC 10GB |
Storage | ~3TB SSDs + 6TB external HDDs |
Display(s) | Acer 27" 4K120 IPS + Lenovo 32" 4K60 IPS |
Case | Corsair 4000D Airflow White |
Audio Device(s) | Asus TUF H3 Wireless |
Power Supply | EVGA Supernova G2 750W |
Mouse | Logitech MX518 + Asus TUF P1 mousepad |
Keyboard | Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO |
VR HMD | Oculus Rift CV1 |
Software | Windows 11 Pro |
Benchmark Scores | It runs Crysis |
System Name | The Workhorse |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen R9 5900X |
Motherboard | Gigabyte Aorus B550 Pro |
Cooling | CPU - Noctua NH-D15S Case - 3 Noctua NF-A14 PWM at the bottom, 2 Fractal Design 180mm at the front |
Memory | GSkill Trident Z 3200CL14 |
Video Card(s) | NVidia GTX 1070 MSI QuickSilver |
Storage | Adata SX8200Pro |
Display(s) | LG 32GK850G |
Case | Fractal Design Torrent |
Audio Device(s) | FiiO E-10K DAC/Amp, Samson Meteorite USB Microphone |
Power Supply | Corsair RMx850 (2018) |
Mouse | Razer Viper (Original) |
Keyboard | Cooler Master QuickFire Rapid TKL keyboard (Cherry MX Black) |
Software | Windows 11 Pro (23H2) |
Yeap, that's the whole point. People look at the price but forget this thing is going to outlast the user. You buy it once, you have it for life.