Noctua NH-D15 G2

[rv8000]

I meant this

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.

 

[Assimilator]

WTAF is this price??? I guess cheap AIOs are really killing air coolers and Noctua has decided they don't want to be part of a race to the bottom, but... they were already the Apple of air coolers, you can't really become the Apple of Apple of air coolers. Not expecting Noctua to be around for too much longer at this rate.

 

[mahanddeem]

1- Do you record CPU temp (main board sensor) or hottest core temp (internal reading from like HWInfo64)? And how long do you keep max load in minutes?
2- Do you use contact frame or stock intel retention mechanism?

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.

 

[ymdhis]

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.

Try undervolting it, from what I heard that will also prevent that chip from killing itself.

 

[mahanddeem]

Try undervolting it, from what I heard that will also prevent that chip from killing itself.

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).
Max voltage is 1.39v.
SP is not bad, 99 for my 14900k too.
It's just a poorly designed, factory far pushed chip. Worse Intel CPU I had, and I had many for the past 20 years.

 

[veleciraptor]

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.

 

[BoggledBeagle]

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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I found where does the buzzing come from on my sample and how to easily fix it.

 

[mahanddeem]

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.

 

[ARF]

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.

This applies to many, if not all the others, cooler makers. Previously, I had a Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme, from 2008, which I was offered to get an AM4 bracket for.

 

[BoggledBeagle]

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?

Thermal performance is NORMAL and comparable to competition, and could you please explain how do materials differ from other taiwanese or chinese made coolers?

 

[fevgatos]

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

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.

Noctua 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.

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 thought

/s

 

[gffermari]

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.

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.

 

[fevgatos]

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.

If you are frequently change your coolers for no reason then noctua isn't for you. Nothing wrong with that, buy something else.

 

[BoggledBeagle]

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.

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?