Noctua NH-D15S, Premium Dual-Tower CPU Cooler with NF-A15 PWM 140mm Fan (Brown)

Cooling a ryzen 7 3700 with this, which it does a decent job of. Not a cheap item, but cheaper than water cooling (without the possibility of water leaks), and more effective than a lot of air coolers out there. The stock cooler that comes with the 3700 is honestly not bad, but this knocks off a few more degrees - and every little helps. It's as easy to fit as any other large air cooler. Fit it before mounting the board in the case, take your time, and follow the instructions. Fiddly but quite straightforward. Noise levels really depend on fan profiles, overclocking etc. I don't faff around with overclocking, and sticking with the motherboard default fan profiles, the cooler is quiet. Not silent, but not far off. The kit comes with extra clips to mount another fan - which i did. No big change to noise levels, but does help with cooling performance - not hugely, but i had the fan already, so why not. Excellent build quality, and has a decent track record. If you're after a big air cooler, then you can't go far wrong. However, do measure your case internals for adequate clearance. When i said 'big air cooler', i wasn't kidding. My case cover has some sound proofing on the inside - had to remove a patch of it in order to fit. Not a big job, but bear in mind - this sucker is big.

Bought this to replace a custom loop cooler in my workstation PC that was being "demoted" to a gaming PC. The cooler is gigantic, and working inside a mid tower case meant it was a little bit fiddly, but I decided not to remove a star under "Easy to Install" because I think Noctua have made it as easy as possible to install. The fans use a neat clip, rather than screws, which is useful because it means you can position the fan slightly off-center to clear motherboard components. The clearance is just under 160mm, and it leaves a good amount of room for RAM/VRM heatsinks which is why I got this cooler instead of the NH-D15. As far as performance goes, I left the 4.7GHz overclock on for my i7-4970k after I switched coolers, went into the BIOS and saw the temps around 30C (11 above ambient), then booted into Windows and ran cinebench. The CPU went into the high 80C - low 90C range so I assumed okay, it's good but it's not as good as my custom loop was so I'll back off the overclock a bit. That's when I noticed that the fan was *unplugged*. The only airflow was coming from a 140mm intake fan and a 120mm exhaust fan. This thing is just so massive, that it could keep my overclocked CPU from throttling passively! I only ran Cinebench once, and it didn't take too long to finish, so perhaps if I ran Prime95 or IBT it would have started throttling but either way that's very impressive. So I hooked up the fan, ran Cinebench again, reaching 70C. That's when I ran Prime95 for a couple of hours, and the temps were between 72-78 the whole time. Bearing in mind you can stick an extra fan on the cooler if you wanted to. So if you're wondering how quiet this cooler is, it's as quiet as you want it to be because it seems to do a good enough job with the fan switched off. Even at 100% speed (which it's never needed to reach whilst gaming, only whilst rendering) it's quieter than the 120mm exhaust fan, and it shifts a lot of air. The PWM control is great, my motherboard has the ASUS "Fan Xpert" controller which allows it to ramp up / down depending on CPU temperatures very smoothly. My custom loop kept temperatures around 65-75 depending on ambient temperatures, and I spent (wasted?) a lot of money on that loop compared to this cooler. The pump noise was louder than the 140mm fan too, so unless you're constrained on space and/or need to be cooling a GPU or two I can't see any benefit to building, maintaining, and generally worrying about a custom loop water cooler. The only measurable advantage is that as soon as you stop rendering, the temperatures of the water loop drop back down to ambient in seconds compared to this cooler which can take a minute, but since I'm rendering / simulating a lot that doesn't really mean anything. It's been a few months since I bought the D15s and I've since bought two more, and now all my machines are air cooled. That should probably tell you all you need to know if you're considering this cooler :)

This is an absolutely awesome cooler!. I was running a stock AMD cooler (with ageing quad core FX cpu) and regularly experienced idling temps of 45C. Heavy load would take it up above 60 and it sounded like a jet engine! Make no mistake, this cooler is HUGE taking up most of the space between the top of the motherboard (micro-ATX) and the graphics card.However in terms of height, it fits easily into my case (which is 210mm width) and there is still loads of room for RAM with even the tallest of heat spreaders. Fitting is a doddle and for AMD at least, makes use of the standard back bracket (which I didn't have to access) which it screws right into courtesy of a couple of adapter brackets. Bear in mind that you have to remove the cooler fan to attach the cooler to your mobo, but it really is no hassle to do so with a couple of quick release clips. So, a quick application of the supplied thermal paste, line up the cooler with the 2 adapter screws and tighten with the screwdriver provided. Re-attach the cooler fan and plug into the mobo and you're finished.The trickiest part of the whole process was actually removing the stock cooler from the CPU as it was practically welded to it with thermal paste . . .few scary moments but thankfully no harm done!. I have to admit I was sceptical as to how much difference in temp it would make and got it more for the promise of noise reduction, but I was amazed on firing up and opening the HW monitor that the first temp posted was 13C!!! - it actually went down to 5C before stabilising at around 19C . . .and this all in an old style case (PSU at the top) and only ONE rear case fan! Time to test it under load so I used a program called IntelBurntest (I know!) and ran the CPU at full load over a series of 10 short 1 min tests . . . Max temp achieved was 43C - amazing! I then tested it with Battlefield 1 (which made my previous cooler scream) and it got up to 41C before quickly cooling back down to 29C within seconds. The CPU is now happily sitting at 24C with minimal load. . .only a few degrees above ambient temperature. I can't recommend this cooler enough . . . yes it is pricey, yes it is HUGE, but you get what you pay for (and it is beautifully engineered and happens to look pretty good too). Having toyed with the idea of an AIO liquid cooler, I am so glad I opted for this instead . . .the near silence is priceless for me and no chance of leaks or fried motherboard/components! I can easily see me taking this cooler with me when the time for the inevitable system upgrade comes. To top it this cooler arrived promptly and within 1hr of delivery I had it fitted and up and running.

Ich habe meinen AMD FX-6300 auf 4200 MHz übertaktet. Der verbaute 90mm Cooler Master Lüfter ( Der orginale Arctic Lüfter lieferte nach 2 Jahren Dauerbetrieb kein Tachosignal mehr) auf einem ARCTIC Freezer 13 CO lief unter Volllast mit 2800 - 2900 Umdrehungen und hatte auserdem beim starten des PC Anlaufschwierigkeiten. Zwar brachte diese Kombination im AIDA64 Stresstest noch akzeptable CPU Temperaturen zustande, aber das war schon eine unangenehm laute Angelegenheit. So entschloss ich mich Nägel mit Köpfen zu machen und entschied mich zum Kauf des Noctua NH-D15S Verbaut wurde er auf einem Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 rev. 3.0 mit AMD FX-6300 OC auf 4200 MHz bei 1,26V. Gehäuse ist ein Antec Three Hundred mit 2 Lüftern. 1x NF-A14 oben, über das Mainbord gesteuert und den 3 stufig manuel regelbaren 12 cm orginal Lüfter an der Rückseite. Die Montage empfand ich als sehr einfach, da die orginal Backplat des Mainboards weiterverwendet wird und nur die beiden Kunstoffteile der Kühlerhalterung gegen 2 Montagebrücken mit Abstandshalter getauscht werden müssen. Zudem ist für jeden Sockeltyp eine gute Anleitung beigelegt. Weder zur Grafikkarte noch bei den Speichermodulen gibt es Platzprobleme. Unter Volllast bleibt nun die CPU erstaunlich kühl. Dabei hört man nur ein leises Säuseln. Wenn man bedenkt das der Lüfter bis zu 1500 U/min kann und jetzt nur selten 900 U/min erreicht ist noch viel Reserve vorhanden. Auserdem kann man jederzeit, dank der zusätzlich mitgelieferten Klammern, einen 2 Lüfter anbauen. Positiv: Gute Verarbeitung Viel Zubehör wie Low-Noise Adapter, Lüfterklammern für zweiten Lüfter, gute Wärmeleitpaste, bebilderte Einbauanleitungen für versch. Sockeltypen. Super Kühlleistung. 6 Jahre Garantie. Negativ: Ich kann leider nichts negatives berichten, außer vielleicht der relativ hohe Preis. Auf dem Screenshot ist gut zu erkennen das der Kühler mit meinem System leichtes Spiel hat. Trotz 4,2 GHz Takt und Volllast unter Boinc auf allen 6 Kernen. Erst wenn zusätzlich die Sapphire Radeon HD7870 XT Boost Grafikkarte, übertaktet auf 1025 MHz, Vollast fährt, steigt die CPU Temperatur auf um die 40° an. Im Sommer kann dann der Kühler zeigen was er kann. Dann herrschen hier im PC Zimmer gerne mal 30-32°, jetzt nur um die 20°.

I have a 13700k, which as you know, can be a pain to keep cool. After having a liquid cooler fail on me, I decided to switch to air cooler only, and this has not disappointed me. I have had this in my computer for 3 years now without any issue what so ever. I even bought a second one for my wife's computer. It cools well, is reliable, and has a good price.

I bought this for my LGA1700 build and no bracket for the LGA1700 included. So giving it 1 star as i cannot use it So buyes dont buy this item if you have LGA 1700

The mounting bars do not fit the AMD4 motherboard for X570. I have attached the pic which shows the mounting bars with the back plate of the motherboard. The mounting Bars part number is NM AMB1. This is very frustrating as I am in the middle of the build and now I am stuck and cannot proceed until I get the correct part. Not expected this from Noctua.

Nonostante sia uscito anni fa, Noctua è sinonimo di garanzia. Questo è il secondo che compro, montato sul mio nuovo pc: il vecchio (8 anni di servizio) funziona ancora come il primo giorno, ineguagliabile. Venduto solo per cambio componenti :) Ho aggiunto una seconda ventola, rendendolo a tutti gli effetti un NH-D15. Silenzioso, efficiente, raffredda come dio comanda un 9800X3D. Sono tentato di comprare un Noctua NH-D15 G2... chissà!