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NH-U14S
Over the years Noctua has created some memorable premium offerings but at a seemingly slow, deliberate pace with high attention to detail. They've kept the same design aesthetic over the years, making their products easily recognizable and presumably streamlining fabrication. Uniformity is part of their strategy to the point where every heatsink released in a given year has identical packaging, accessories, and mounting hardware. It's not all just for show either, as they invariably produce elite performance and often the only valid complaint is price. In many ways, Noctua is the Apple of CPU coolers. The last Noctua we reviewed, the NH-U12S, was a slim tower heatsink with a 120 mm fan that offered high efficiency in a more compact form factor than the usual fare. The NH-U14S is its big brother, a more substantial version with a 140 mm blower.
"The Noctua NH-U14S is an excellent performer overall but when you also take into account its size, it's fairly impressive. That such a thin, single fan, single tower heatsink can rub shoulders with bigger, heavier, premium coolers is delightfully surprising. Perhaps more amazing is that Noctua continues to crank out successful coolers one after another with nary a misstep. The NH-U14S is just another in a long line of solidly built, easy to install, and highly competent heatsinks." (Lawrence Lee, SilentPCReview.com)
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