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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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The cooling performance of the Noctua NH-U12P Heatpipe CPU Cooler is exceptional. With the fan at full speed it produces minimal noise and provides excellent thermal results, and cutting the fan speed down to near silence doesn't impact the cooling at all. Even though the performance was exceptional, achieving it took more effort than I am used to needing in order to install a CPU cooler.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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On the heels of the successful NH-U12F CPU heatsink, Noctua has released a newer, more compatible version called the NH-U12P. This version has more clearance below the fins, making it easier to install on many motherboards. It comes with the new, ultra-quiet NF-P12 fan and a tube of the new NT-H1 thermal compound.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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While most people reading ASE Labs as well as other enthusiast publications are very concerned with heat, there is another niche that is concerned with sound. Selecting a fan to provide adequate cooling that is quiet is really a shot in the dark. The fan rating may say one thing, but in practice it means something completely different. Noctua steps forward to provide a fan that satisfy the cool and quiet needs of enthusiasts.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
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I seem to be testing a lot of thermal pastes lately, so it will be nice when I have a roundup of the major performers (which after today should be most of them!) The NT-H1 paste from Noctua is a relatively new entry to the thermal paste market, so let's take a look Noctua's offering to the market.
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The market for CPU heatsink and fans has grown quite saturated -- but with this saturation also comes a diversity that allows for a different heatsink to suit every preference. From performance heatsinks, noise conscious designs, to value/budget products, there's at least a dozen from various brands to fill in the specific market niche -- or maybe even a combination of two or more. Noctua has made quite a prominent name for itself in the industry for making quiet PC cooling solutions. Being that, a quiet cooler does not mean it cannot be a performance cooler at the same time. Combined with a design that challenges the best air cooler, it proves one thing -- bigger does not mean better. It's all about cooling efficiency; and combined with arguably the best fan for this application -- the Noctua NF-P12 -- how will the Noctua NH-U12P perform installed in our real life testing scenario? I've always wondered how it stacks up against the Scythe Infinity -- one of the biggest, and one of the best performing coolers over a year and a half ago -- but with a little twist. We want to see how the heatsink itself performs. And we'll even compare the two with the same fan. Now that would be an interesting showdown.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
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Noctua improved the design of the original NH-U12 to make it fit more motherboards, at the same time they decided to bundle it with a low noise 120mm fan. Can this refreshed product stand a chance against heavy competition? We find out.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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We've seen a collection of various Noctua fans conforming to the standards of 80mm and 120mm, but nothing in the lesser-used 92mm size. Fortunately, 92mm fan mounts can now use bevelled blade tips and vortex control notches, but more importantly, have a MULNAZ PC. Lets have a look whether it lives up to our previous experiences with Noctua blowers.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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Noctua derived its name from the Greek mythology. The little owl, Athene Noctua, is the symbol of the Greek goddess Athene, who represents wisdom, science and strategy. She has a marked preference for the most clever among the Greek heroes, like Odysseus, who endure their adventures by the use of savvy consideration instead of mere force. It is the owl's silent flight that Noctua keeps in mind with their fan design...
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Friday, January 25, 2008
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The time has come to look at yet another 120mm fan from the Austrian company Noctua. This time it is the NF-P12 model, and previously we have reviewed the NF-S12-800 and NF-S12-1200. The fan is sort of atypical, because of the colour and the 9 fan blades instead of the usual 7 blades, but more about that later. The NF-P12 is packed in a brown/blue box with a little window, revealing the fan and one of the rubber pins used for fastening the fan. The box contains the fan, 4 vibration reducing rubber pins for fastening the fan, 4 cutting screws, 1 power plug for 4-pin Molex cables, as well as a blue and a black cable for reducing the voltage, which we'll explain in the specifications part.
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Monday, January 21, 2008
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If you have an uncompromising fetish for silence, then there's no other choice: you have to get the Noctua, or, at least its £15 fan. After all given that there are many heatpiped heatsinks already on the market you could just throw the NH-P12 120mm fan on any one of these for a similar effect. At £15 a pop, the NH-P12 is the Creme de la Creme of fans and an investment and a half on top of that heatsink purchase. And even if you can match the Noctua's 19dB, like the Zerotherm Nirvana NV120 at its lowest setting, there's still a performance difference in favour of the Noctua.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
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The Noctua NF-P12 is a great fan. Its combination of good performance with low noise seals the deal. Noctua has delivered on their company motto of producing "sound-optimised premium components" - this fan is almost silent when used with the included ultra low noise adaptor. In fact, it was near silent without even using any of the adaptors! This may be due to the unique "vortex-control notches" on the fan blades which apparently spread the noise spectrum of the fan out over a wide range to make it sound less noisy.
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Noctua recently released their new NT-H1 thermal compound. This new thermal interface material is designed to give maximum performance while being simple to use. Best of all, it is ready to use immediately and does not require a "burn-in" time like the other manufacturer's products. With a long storage life, long-term stability on the CPU, being non-conductive and being suitable for compressor cooling, this thermal compound seems to have it all.
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Friday, January 4, 2008
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After discussing our ideal Christmas gift, it's now time for the first review published in 2008 (Although we did start writing on December 27, 2007, just in case you were wondering. What took so long? Obviously all the partying!) -- the Noctua NF-P12 high pressure cooling fan. I've been looking for a new fan for my heatsink for quite a while now. When Noctua, well known for their high quality, high performance, and low noise fans released their NF-P12 fan designed specifically for applications with high air resistance such as heatsinks, it got me quite excited. How well would this fan perform, and how quiet is it really? As a self-proclaimed quiet PC enthusiast, let's take a look at the Noctua NF-P12 today and see if it's by any chance what we have been looking for for quite a while.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
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If you've never seen a Noctua heatsink, the first thing you will notice is the quality of the material used. Many heatsinks are now designed after the NH-U12 with a copper base attached to heatpipes that lead to aluminum fins, but when comparing them side-by-side it is clear that the Noctua fins are stronger, thicker and very difficult to bend. Today we will be looking at the Noctua NH-U12P, a revised version of the original NH-U12. The 12P has several improvements over its older sibling, some lead to better performance and some to making the installation easier and more diverse.
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There are so many heatsinks out there that choosing your preferred CPU anti-perspirant is a mine-field. While it be component conflict, case issues or price, there are factors that immediately make some offerings impossible to use. Today I have the newest heatsink to fly from the R&D department doors at Noctua; the NH-U12P which is an amalgamation of several proven Noctua products onto a new heatsink design. Hopefully it'll all come together; read on to find out?
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