- Review -

10.03.2015 HardwareAsylum.com

It has been awhile since we tested a Noctua cooler on the older 115X platform which seemes fitting given the smaller size of the 92mm D-Type. As our charts show we have a heatsink that can clearly handle more than the system can dish out. In terms of raw temp the 67c load under overclocking is a little high however when you consider the load temp of the OEM cooler at default speed this is well within tolerance. The NH-D9L includes hardware for LGA 2011 and while our OC tests show it can handle the 130w+ TDP there isn’t much room for overclocking. It should also be noted that we did test this heatsink using all fans spinning under the Asus Turbo PWM fan profile. This profile is a little more aggressive than the default enabling them to spin up faster under load. Despite the higher than expected OC load temps the NH-D9L ran extremely quiet at default speed which is the primary reasons for using a Noctua cooler over an OEM design.

"Overall performance was very good. Our heat tests showed that the Noctua NH-D9L could handle a very healthy overclock which also put it in range of handling a default clocked LGA 2011." (Dennis Garcia, HardwareAsylum.com)