- Review -

28.04.2014 FrostyTech.com

With a 200W heat load applied by the Intel LGA2011/1366 version of FrostyTech's synthetic thermal test platform, Noctua's NH-D15 heatsink yields an excellent temperature test result of just 15.8°C over ambient, with both fans spinning at 1500RPM. Decreasing the speed of the two 140x150mm PWM fans to 650RPM caused test temperatures to increase to 23.8°C over ambient, while noise output dropped to a whisper quiet 31.8 dBA. Where LGA2011 Intel processors are considered, the Noctua NH-D15 heatsink is the best performing tower CPU cooler we've tested thus far, exceeded only by all-in-one liquid coolers.

"On all three of Frostytech's synthetic thermal test platforms the Noctua NH-D15 heatsink offers the best, quietest cooling performance of the tower-class heatsinks we've thus tested. In other words, that means several all-in-one liquid cooler models do perform cooler than the NH-D15, but they're also much louder." (Max Page, FrostyTech.com)