Excellent cooling performace, even at low speed, Extremely quiet, Well designed and well made, Includes a useful bundle of accessories including fan speed adaptors, Includes an ample supply of premium thermal paste
Must remove motherboard to install, Overly complicated / difficult installation, High potential for interference with other system components, Price and availability
The cooling performance of the Noctua NH-U12P Heatpipe CPU Cooler is exceptional. With the fan at full speed it produces minimal noise and excellent thermal results, and cutting the fan speed down to near silence doesnt impact the cooling at all. A he...
Excellent performance, Extremely quiet fan, Easy installation, Versatile mounting, Quality construction, Greater compatibility than the NHU12F, Capable of mounting two 120mm fans, Can use any 120mm fan with open corners, Socket 939 and Xeon mounting hardw...
High price, Large size may still cause some compatibility problems
The Noctua NH-U12P CPU heatsink performs excellently, and it does so with a very quiet fan. The design and construction are top-notch as one would expect from Noctua. Installation was easy with all the included hardware, and users of Xeons and older So...
Abstract: of the NH-U12P Noctua not only includes their own low noise 120mm fan, but also tweaked the heatsink design to fit a wider range of motherboards (no know compatibility issues in fact) and better performance.Let’s find out if they improved upon ...
The bar here at Legit Reviews has just been raised, when it comes to air cooling your CPU, we have a new king of the hill and we think its worth every penny of its $70 price tag. ...
Published: 2008-02-06, Author: Mike , review by: icrontic.com
Performs well with lower heat loads and moderate overclocks on both AM2 and LGA 775 plaforms, Effective downdraft cooling keeps mainboard components cool, Excellent base quality, Nice and light, Good socket compatibility (LGA775/478/AM2/939/754), Can be used semipassively with Sugo cube cases
Can not stabilize core temperature with higher heat loads and significant vcore increases, Backplate not compatible with many newer Intel mainboards, Expensive considering no included fan
Extremely Quiet, Excellent Performance, Great Accessories and Manual Included, Reasonably Priced for what you get, Did I mention Quiet?
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Weve taken a look at a lot of coolers over the years at BCCHardware.com and its not very often that Ive been truly surprised from a cooler. Normally right out of the box you can tell approximately how well it is going to perform, but the Noctua NH...
and ValueAs you’ve seen on the previous page, the Noctua NH-U12P is a great performer and this isn’t just down to the improved fan that the company has designed. Along with better performance, you also get absolutely everything you would expect – bett...
Very well made, Excellent performance, Looks great, Includes Noctua NFP12 fan, Includes Noctua NTH1 Thermal compound, Easy installation, Silent operation with low temperatures
Tight fit on same cases depending on orientation of cooler
Ive said it before and Ill say it again, I love Noctua, and for good reason, they make excellent performing and high quality products. The NH-U12P CPU Cooler is the latest edition to Noctuas award winning lineup of CPU Coolers that upholds its tra...
Fantastic cooler beats our current favorites; very efficient design; mounts to multiple sockets; tall enough to stand above onboard heat sinks; quiet.
Pricey; heavy; complicated installation.
This big beast of a cooler seems to indicate that more heat pipes and a larger fin area translate to better cooling, and it should please any overclocker whos not quite ready to delve into liquid cooling....
NH-U12P NF-P12, Excellent bundle, Improved performance, 6 year warranty, Quiet fan Superior performance, Low noise
NHU12P NFP12, Compatibility, Lesser performance with thin TIMs, Still only four heat pipes MSRP
Noctua is a company that is dedicated to low noise computing. With increased power demands comes an increase in heat levels. Conventional methods worked for a while but for todays PCs they would result in too much noise to be practical. Noctua has an...
