Discontinued

NH-D14 SE2011

D-Type CPU cooler

6 heatpipe dual tower design

Provides outstanding cooling performance

Dual NF-P14 / NF-P12 fans

With PWM support and Low-Noise Adaptors

SecuFirm2™ mounting system for LGA2011

for Intel Core i7-39xx/38xx

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We already know the NH-D14 is a great performing heatsink, my question is how well does it perform up against the Intel water cooling. Right from the beginning I knew that this solution would be quieter than Intel’s Water cooling but I wasn’t sure about the actual cooling performance. While using RealTemp to register temperatures on every core we let each sit for an hour to get our idle temperatures then ran prime95 for an hour for our load temps. We averaged each of the 6 cores temperatures together for our final scores. All of the testing was done at 69 degrees Fahrenheit ambient temperatures. Our results were surprising! The NH-D14 out performed in both idle and load testing by a considerable amount, all while running at a much lower noise level. The Intel Water Cooling does a good job considering the heat that the i7-3960X puts out, but the Noctua blew it out of the water, no pun intended.

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