- Review -
NH-L12
As we can see, the NH-L12 manages to keep quite close to the heavier and more efficient NH-U12P. The difference between them in idle temperatures is almost neglible while the room temperature in the testing environment was around 25c. In the ultimate stress test the difference is about 4 degrees which is still quite a good performance this low profile cooler. Noctua NH-L12 is priced around 60€ here in Finland and is available for purchase as we speak. The performance is about on par with the very popular NH-U12P cooler so unless you are about to do some heavy duty overclocking and want a silent, yet low profile cooler, the NH-L12 might be just the cooler you’ve been looking for. It is silent, only 66mm in height and fits in most motherboards and cases on market. I installed mine on Antec Minuet case, which only accepts half height PCI-cards so the space in it is very limited to say the least. I had no problems installing the NH-L12 in it and now my HTPC is very silent indeed.
"If you want a nice cooler for your HTPC or desktop machine and 60e price doesn’t hurt you too much, consider NH-L12." (Ville Ilonen, rbmods.com)
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