- Review -

24.04.2014 Vortez.net

The performance of a cooler is often the overriding factor when it comes to making a decision whether to invest or not and we can safely say that the D15 is a big improvement over the highly revered D14 and is worthy of the flagship moniker. In all our tests this cooler demonstrated consistent thermal prowess, even matching the performance of some leading liquid cooling solutions. D15 may not have topped the charts but an important factor needs to be noted, other coolers required significantly more RPM in order to achieve the result but D15 attained its milestone by using lower RPM and thus emitted less noise. Therein lies the fundamental principle to which Noctua operate – striking the balance between performance and noise.

"Noctua’s new flagship CPU cooler is a worthy successor to the highly revered NH-D14. In all our tests, we found NH-D15 to be very capable indeed. It achieves great results with very little noise. Noctua has clearly spent significant time designing this new cooler, it simply oozes quality on many levels and we’d gladly add it to our cooling arsenal." (David Mitchelson, Vortez.net)