- Review -

11.11.2008 LanOC.org

As you can see in the graphs, Noctua's attention to detail has show in the performance. With an idle temperature of 18 degrees the NH-U12P out performed even our best heatsinks by a full 3 degrees. [...] Although considering the heatsinks we tested against the 3 degrees was a very good improvement, most will focus on the load temperatures. At 37 degrees, it was 7 degrees lower than the nearest competitor. Even more impressive is the load temperatures with the NH-U12P were lower than the idle temperatures with the stock Intel heatsink! With those numbers, you would expect to too listen to an extremely loud fan, but surprisingly this isn't the case. As we have seen before in the testing, Noctua's fans perform well with little or no acoustics.

"After outperforming all of the other heatsinks that we have tested in the past I'm very impressed with the NH-U12P. All of that performance with little or no acoustics is also very impressive, this makes the NH-U12P perfect for people with open-air cases that will be affected the most with the sound." (Wes Compton, LanOC.org)