- Review -

21.09.2014 PC Perspective

With the NH-D15 cooler, Noctua took the design of their popular NH-D14 cooler and tweaked it for high performance and better board compatibility. The build quality and design of the NH-D15 is excellent, as well come to expect from Noctua, with all copper surfaces nickel-plated for corrosion and scratch resistance. Further, the nickel-plating gives the cooler a chromed appearance, consistent with its shiny aluminum twin radiators. In implementing the NH-D15, Noctua cut cross-sections out of the lower outside of both cooling towers, giving the unit better compatibility with most board designs including the LGA2011 boards with DIMM slots on both sides of the CPU socket. They compensated for this surface area loss in the radiator by pairing the unit with two if its AF-15 140mm fans. There mounting system remains one of the easiest to use as well, so no complaints there.

"The NH-D15 cooler performs up to Noctua's promises, delivering top performance in most cases even against water coolers without the noise normally associated with high performance air coolers." (Morry Teitelman, PC Perspective)