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Read more.A new standard for 120mm coolers.
Erm, No thanks. £90 for a 2x 120mm small tower. Deepcool Lucifer is on the same level as this if you put another fan on it (though considerably larger). I bet if I put Noctua fans on my 4pipe h7 I would get pretty similar results with a better aesthetic. But if you want the brand you want the brand.
Last edited by PC-LAD; 17-05-2019 at 04:34 PM.
A small tower cooler that ran circles around a £163 360mm AIO, while being quieter. Tell me again how £90 is unreasonable, or how you're going to get the same performance from any other air cooler. Even their previous champ, the NH-D15 can't claim to best a 280mm AIO, much less a 360mm.
Whoa that price is insane. Although I guess it's the new price point for premium coolers. Would love to see a 140mm version. I have a NH-D14, and will hopefully be migrating it to Zen2, but if they bring out an updated one it'll definitely give me pause
I have one of these. Very impressed.
Running a 4790K @ 4.6. Temps are about 84 with intel burn in test. But outside that under load rarely goes over 70, even in Cinebench R20.
It's also worth checking Linus tech tips channel. He tested this cooler with Corsair AIOs, and it out performed, 120, 240, and 360mm AIOs.
(video title 'Why you shouldn't water cool your PC')
There was another video somewhere where the reviewer got better cooling performance using 1 fan instead of 2. Yet to try it, but i suspect that's more case dependant.
I would question the "full tube of nht1" I got about three, maybe four blobs, so four applications. BUT yes they fully honor their warranty in every way , they are quiet and I like the color. Thats why I bought two, lx65 and l9s (smaller brother of this). Both quieter, better upgrades . Remember we ruled austria after ww2 till 1955 ...just sayin ...
Mr_Jon (18-05-2019)
Well, you should, because they exist, they're much more expensive, and this thing beats them.
You could, but then you're still talking £70 for the NH-U12S + NF-F12 PWM, and you're still at <280mm AIO cooling territory. If there was no performance difference I would completely agree with you, but to call a £20 premium a stupid price for a legitimate CPU cooling performance champ is silly. The only way you're beating these results is with a >£330 open loop watercooling setup, and that's going to come with more noise and maintenance hell.
Think I'd rather have the extra 3-4c on temps with the Dark Rock 4 than suffer the aesthetics of this cooler. Not the fans, you can replace them with something less horrendous looking but the fact there is no top plate covering the untidy heat pipe tips, it's a big no-no for me.
Of course none of this would matter if I didn't have a non windowed case, sitting right next to me where I can see everything, but I do.
I'd argue that AIOs aren't particularly great value, but also more justified in the expensive since they tend to be more complicated. Don't get me wrong, you can't really complain about the performance, and the fact that it allows easier clearance is nice, but at the end of the day, it is £90 for a hunk of metal with 2 fans attached which again likely have a huge mark up. An additional problem is that it is pretty bloody ugly. People can easier justify the price when better aesthetics are involved. Having said that, I'm not completely ruling it out, though may just end up getting something cheaper.
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