- Review -

15.01.2019 The Streaming Blog

We find this cooler’s stock performance really good. Among the other similar products that we’ve tested, it’s actually one of the coolers that delivered the best performance. Although the NH-U12S is not really designed for overclocking, we tried it just to see the results and surprisingly, it performed really well despite the company claiming that it shouldn’t be used for such. With just one fan, it kept our CPU cool so we tried attaching an extra one to see if it would really bring better results. We liked that the second fan greatly enhanced the cooler’s performance and it was able to lower the temperature of the CPU. When it comes to the cooler’s sounds, we only got a reading of around 42 dB which was really silent during our tests. This increased slightly during overclocking but it was still almost inaudible. All in all, the NH-U12S was quiet, performed well, and it gave us great performance which is something we really liked.

"If you need a CPU cooler that delivers the best performance and stays quiet, then Noctua’s NH-U12S is the perfect choice for you." (Grant Evans, The Streaming Blog)