- Review -

22.11.2017 Enostech.com

All the coolers were put to cool the hot-headed i7 7700k chip. My chip has poor thermals on it out of the box so I would not be blaming the coolers entirely if the temperature is high as even the Noctua NH-D15 and the Reeven Naia 240 have struggled to keep the temperatures in check. It is really up to the users to decide if they are willing to pay more for the performance improvement of up to 3°C. Taking in due consideration of 84W rated TDP, comfortable acoustics level even at 100% RPM and excellent thermal performance in the given pool of the coolers despite being a little pricey, the Noctua NH-L12S has won our Performance award.

"Five low profile coolers were tested with the same configuration on my test bench. The Noctua NH-L9x65 has emerged as a winner in the category of the compact, low profile coolers with the other contenders being the SilverStone AR06 and the Reeven Brontes." (Nauman Siddique, Enostech.com)