Just bought it to cool my 4790K, initially not my 1st choice as kinda tempted by cryorig R1 but have to ship it internationally just imagine the hassle just to get the cooler..so end up buying this My initial impression...huge box! open it up revel accessories box and mounting for amd and intel putting aside 3 box reveals a layer of foam padding remove the foam and we in another box in a box keeping the beast safe the supplied fan the beast in a box the packaging is tremendous..like a puzzle just to protect the heatsink..it doesn't move very secure and the beast is out with the fan attached..somehow smells funny like like in a pharmacy and the fans..the colour that make some go ewwwww but i'm not a woman i don't have sense of fashion or colour matching it's just another fan to me and lastly the accessories box with thermal paste..fan clip..some splitters..a screw driver and a nice metal badge not some stickers..a very nice touch ransacking thru the box is very fun..noctua packaging i can say over the top but how much this thing cost i expect top quality tonight will fix it up, stay tuned for more frustration or plain sailing process
How's the cooling performance? It's really hard to get aftermarket cooling here. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
yea..very limited choice here or go for AIO water cooling got more choices here didnt fix it yet..my old case have to remove motherboard..tedious think about how much work have to do
chai, installing it a breeze..probably the easiest heatsink i have ever installed..BUT here comes the problem ram heat spreader raise the fan and now i can't close side panel now you have cursed me and i need to find a new case
mount the fan to the lowest point closest to the ram and still it goes so high and now just pull/pull solve this issue and temps just 1 to 3 degrees off
yes it is..the biggest i've ever used it's intimidating with it's size but very very easy to install, i never get it right 1st time with any aftermarket coolers but with this i get it right easily..very good mounting design want one of the best in the market air cooler? get this
Very nice... however all we want to see are what temps you get on what CPU/Vcore and clocks. Iddle/load. So we can congratulate you or forget about Noctua. Chai - That is surprising, since today my Noctua NH-C14S come and on the side of the box is "Made in Taiwan." So that must be easily exported around the world... or is not it? ... Never the less, there is new versions of the Noctua NH-D15 out - a Noctua NH-D15S, witch is modified to not interfere with the topmost PCIE slot and also it have only one fan included, so it is slightly cheaper. So Noctua already have a better version of the cooler and we still don't even know the temps with this one