- Review -

06.06.2014 GeekTech.ie

Further to the point, the NH-U12S isn’t aimed at those who want the best CPU’s with extreme heat dissipation for overclocking headroom, it’s more a heatsink that won’t get in the way and simply deal with your CPU’s heat. So anyone looking to grab their components, put it to together and forget about it, the NH-U12S is probably the best choice. It won’t get in the way of any RAM and its performance is good enough to keep any CPU cool on stock settings and best of all, it does it while staying near silent. Not bad for a 158 x 125mm single tower heatsink. The U12S isn’t Noctua’s best CPU heatsink overall.but it’s their best at this size and we didn’t expect to see those kind of numbers from a heatsink that small. It’s spot on for what it’s designed to do, which is, be small, be quiet, be good.

"It really is a gold worthy piece of engineering and we are impressed. To offer that kind of performance while being this small and not to forget near silent, it’s clear Noctua know what they are doing and while it’s not a heatsink that can deal with extreme overclocking, it’s a solid little performer that brings ease of mind along with easy installation and silent performance and allows users to not have to worry about compatibility issues or potential leaks from larger heatsinks and liquid cooling." (Craig O Sullivan, GeekTech.ie)