- Review -
NH-L12
The NH-L12 is quiet, there is no doubt about it. It's audible at full speed but still not offensively loud. For general running, the NH-L12 is almost silent - in a closed Fractal R3 case under normal load, (not benchmarking), we couldn't hear it at all. The NH-L12 makes less noise than the already quiet NH-D14. As expected, the smaller heatsink doesn't perform as well as our tower heatsink - and it shouldn't. There is far less surface area on the NH-L12 than the NH-D14. That said, the low profile option doesn't perform badly by any means. We expected the NH-L12 to fail our overclock tests but with both fans attached, we consider the results to be a win for the R&D team at Noctua. [...] Under typical load (95W TDP or less), the NH-L12 is an excellent cooler and would be our first choice for a HTPC.
"This is a brilliant product and if you are building a HTPC, we would strongly recommend that you try to fit it in your budget. Verdict: Highly Recommended" (Phil Carroll, PCGamers.net.au)
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