- Review -

26.03.2017 XtremeSystems.org

My testing did show that this little cooler that can almost fit in the palm of your hand still kept an overclocked Ryzen 1700 a few degrees below 80 C. While that is a bit on the high side, I hesitate to list the cooling performance as a Con, because if you use the cooler within the design intention, which is small form factor cases and HTPC environments, then you will have no problems. It does a fine job of cooling. If you try to cool an overclocked gaming system, well, Noctua has a variety of coolers that are better choices.As for the acoustics, the Noctua NF-A9x14 fan is quite even at full speed. The case fans drowned out any sound from the Noctua fan.

"While large coolers are impressive and fun to show off, for small form factor builds you need a cooler that can get the job done in a small space. And that is just what the NH-L9x65 SE-AM4 does. The engineering that went into the entire package for the NH-L9x65 SE-AM4 is remarkable, from literally the box and internal packaging, to the installation hardware, cooler, and fan." (Ambrosidou Nat, XtremeSystems.org)