- Review -
NH-U9S
Noctua always seems to impress. Each time they come out with a cooler it has a specific purpose and it always accomplishes that goal. For the NH-U9S their goal was to make a high-performance CPU cooler that would still fit in small systems. They were able to accomplish this. It is not often that you find a CPU cooler that guarantees that there will be no clearance issues with memory or PCI-Express cards, even on mini-ITX motherboards.
When it comes to performance the NH-U9S performed at the top of the air coolers we have tested lately, even with the low noise adapter in use the cooler had very respectable performance. If you wanted to add even more performance you can add a second NF-A9 PWM fan, which we did and you can see those results on the previous page. During operation, even with two fans installed the cooler is not all that loud at all.
"If you are looking for a smaller air cooler for a compact system this cooler is a great choice!" (Bob Buskirk, ThinkComputers.org)
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