- Review -
NH-L12
The Noctua NH-L12 is an interesting heatsink that comes with 120mm and 92mm fans; it's short 93mm height makes it ideal for many computer cases where tall tower heatsinks can't go. If there's really not a lot of space above the CPU socket, users can remove the top 120mm fan and decrease the height of the NH-L12 heatsink to only 66mm. There is a pretty significant temperature penalty to doing this, particularly with 150W TDP environments, but if you're dealing with a sub-95W TDP CPUs and the Noctua NH-L12 will prove quite capable.
"Where sub-95mm tall heatsinks are concerned, the Noctua NH-L12 (with both fans) is at the top of the list. [...] Bottom line, the Noctua NH-L12 heatsink is a very good lower profile heatsink." (Max Page, FrostyTech.com)
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