Brilliant Product
Easily the best CPU cooler I've used in 15 years and I only get high end coolers. It's a brilliant design, has an extremely good build quality, is very quiet and has a tremendous cooling effect. It's height allows tall RAM sticks to be used (and my RAM is very tall), but the height also gives the CPU fan a greater ability to cool wider areas around the CPU socket on the motherboard.
Most CPU coolers funnel air parallel to the motherboard and well away from it. These types of CPU coolers do provide a solid cooling effect for the CPU, but if you feel the heat around the CPU socket, on components like the VRMs, you'll find they are very hot. This often cause Motherboards to become unstable, because there is no air moving past them. So in reality, you end up with far more cooling than the CPU requires, but nothing on the motherboard's VRMs. This "top down" Noctua design provides substantial cooling for the CPU and the VRMs at the same time. Where I live (in Australia), it's damn hot and if I don't cool those VRMs, I will suffer from an unreliable system. It does make a difference and transforms the machine into a dependable system that will remain so for years.
I strongly recommend a top down CPU cooler desing and this Noctua is the finest example I've come across. It was an expensive purchase for a passive CPU cooler, but well worth it and great value.
Installation was straight forward and doesn't require a great amount of coordination to get it done.
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