- Review -
NH-L12S
Noctua NH-L12S is a CPU cooler which I was really eager to test and review since I was very impressed by the cooling capabilities of its ancestor NH-L12 tested and reviewed back in the days. The new model offers a lot of improvements and that includes tighter dimensions, better cooling fan and most of all wider range of supported sockets and processors. You see, in low profile or HTPC systems everything really counts since the smaller rigs lack of space, so offering same or better performance, better compatibility or lower noise level and at the same time with smaller dimensions means really a lot.
The cooler itself is with really tiny dimensions and still it is capable to provide very, very good cooling result and maintain my processor running stable and pretty quiet through the test, which I was able to perform. According to what I saw, I believe this cooler is a very good choice to work with low and average grade processors working at normal frequencies with some serious load for a lot of time even inside small form factor or HTPC systems. For overclocking it might not be the best option especially with processors of about 125W by default. For these scenarios there are other products.
"Great job, Noctua!" (Dobrin Krastev, DVTests.com)
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