Noctua NH-U12A, Premium CPU Cooler with High-Performance Quiet NF-A12x25 PWM Fans (120mm, Brown)

My computer CPU was reaching 100 degree C temps and subsequently ruined a 400 dollar motherboard and that was with water cooling. I am not sure if my water cooler was defective or what. I decide I did not want the complexity of another water cooler breakdown. So, I went with this device.

Performance is very good, visual would have preferred other colour options than brown

Jokes aside, I’m really shocked at just how quiet this thing really is. I build my own PCs every couple of years, usually with the highest end parts available at the time. I’ve always used liquid cooling in my PCs, believing that there was no way a heat sink with a fan on it could possibly cool a high-end processor.

This Noctua air cooler is absolutely fantastic! Immediately after installing it in my computer I saw my CPU temperature under load drop drastically. All in all this cooler will take care of your CPU with most anything that is thrown its way. I personally prefer to cool with air over other water cooling solutions and cannot recommend this product enough. Noctua has really impressed me with the performance and have earned my business for all future builds that I do.

Keeps my Ryzen 5 5600X over 20 degrees cooler at load.

Der Preis ist echt Happig, ich habe ihn über einen Warehousedeal bekommen und 79,99 Gezahlt und das ist eigentlich schon zu teuer. Aber man muss zugeben, er ist auch verdammt gut!

Soy poseedor de varias marcas de disipadores de reconocido prestigio (cooler master, corsair, be quiet, etc) y creo que con esto digo todo, a partir de ahora solo compraré noctua, por calidad de construccion, sonoridad, rendimiento, y facilidad de mantenimiento (limpieza y/o sustitución de ventiladores) practicamente silencio absoluto, un 10...

after enduring my single fan cooler from another brand regularly letting me down with temperatures for my i7-8700K hitting 95-98C when rendering with all cores - I bought this - fitted it (which was super easy by the way - the supplied thermal paste is a pleasure to use!) and then sat back and enjoyed the resultant drop of 15C on the CPU as a result!

This Noctua NH-U12A is excellent cooler for air cooled. Easy to install, easy connect brackets and wires. Works as intented. Only issue I am having is when starting my computer related to fast boot on Gigabyte Z390 Motherboard, one of fans in front most times and rear at times turns on then turns off at times. I have to disable fast boot when get error code 66 then works fine or have to restart system. But other then that this Noctua NH-U12A work awesome and very quiet and works keep CPU cooled. Then again this is new system I built, so going thru teething process. Do not ask me questions on this product about size, weight, if mounts on certain motherboards, etc. Go directly to Noctua website and look up specs. Thank you.

Was concerned about if it would fit in my compact computer or not. Its a tight fit but it works, its also silent.