- Review -

28.10.2024 TweakTown.com

Thermally, we love what Noctua can do. While there are a few more affordable cooling solutions, compared side by side, you can quickly tell one is built affordably, and the Noctua is built like a tank. ID-Cooling and DeepCool may have a leg up by a fraction of a degree. Still, for Noctua to be able to make a smaller product that is sometimes three or four degrees better than where it all started, we must give Noctua the respect they deserve for making such magic happen. With or without an overclock applied, the NH-D15 G2 LBC is able and willing to take whatever you throw at it. On top of the thermal performance we are given, there is a near lack of noise from normal usage. If you stick with PWM control, the NH-D15 G2 is likely the quietest thing in the chassis, even when ramped, we only got to 26 dB in the open air. You will be hard-pressed inside a chassis to know if the fans are spinning. Speaking of the fans and if they are spinning, Noctua allowed them to go to 0 RPM mode if you set the custom fan curve in the motherboard BIOS or software to make such things possible.

"If you are looking for the engineers' dream of CPU cooling, no others come close to the level of detail and ability that Noctua puts into their flagship coolers." (Chad Sebring, TweakTown.com)