Noctua NH-U12A chromax.Black, 120mm Single-Tower CPU Cooler (Black)

Went from an AMD Stock Cooler to the NH-U12A. Best decision made so far. The cooling is insane (Even though I don’t do OCing), and I went from an average temperature of 83-92C on Heavy Loads, to barely even going past 66C on Heavy Loads, even on BF1 and FiveM which are very very very CPU heavy. I run all my games on the highest settings on 4K resolution (3840x2160) and the CPU temps are blowing my mind. Get this cooler while you can! Black one looks better.

The mounting brackets Noctua uses makes installation easy. This is the quietest computer Ive ever had and the thermals are fantastic.

Keeps my Ryzen 7 5800x cool clocked at 4.0ghz at 100% load. Doesnt hit over 73°c. Best decision I made for my CPU. Works great. Not load at all.

Loud, ineffective. As simple as that, get the NH-D15 if it fits your case. Huge difference.

I dont really know how it was forgotten to file the cnc finish off the plate. the heatsink still works for my lower end build with a Ryzen 5 2600 averaging 65-70 under load, but i fear that the uneven finish might stir up problem when put with a different cpu. i have gotten Noctua fans an heatsinks before an this has not been an issue. If the bottom plate on the heatsink was polished like normal i would have given 5 stars, but with the uneven jagged state it came in i will not.

I had doubts about the cooling for the core i7 12700, board msi carbon z690, ddr5 5600 32gb, this was the best option for air, it has no sound, it does not feel, when taking the equipment to workloads the maximum temperature was 65 degrees, very cool, it comes with all the anchors according to your configuration option, I see that I will have it for many years, the design, technology and quality have been there since I received the box.

Me tomo un tiempo ver cuál refrigeracion comprar, al final compré este noctua por su rendimiento y que no tapaba las ram, las temperaturas jugando con un i7 13700k se mantienen frescas pero estoy seguro que no aguanta el 100% de carga sin un undervolt. Así que me falta probar eso, pero en general lo mantiene fresco el cpu. Lo recomiendo.

Stop. Just stop and get it. Ran an AIO for more than a year for aesthetic and cooling purposes until the pump whine became too much.

Removed my Corsair H100i AIO liquid cooler in favour of this system - on my 5600X, the temperatures under load were tyically in the 60s to early 70s, matching, if not beating my previous system. Well done to Noctua for this, going to keep it for years and years to come. Only issue is that its quite pricey.

Im running a Ryzen 5800x in a cooler master nr200p with a panel extension bracket for the glass panel. Theres a ventus rtx 3080 sitting right underneath this cooler. The NH-U12A chromax.black is set in the intake configuration with 2 top lian li unifan sl120 fans for exhaust and 2 arctic p12 pwm slim fans for intake at the bottom. My pbo boost settings are PPT 125, TDC 82, EDC 130 , with frequency curves set with 2 best cores at -15 and all other cores at -30. Running cinebench 23, I have all cores at 4.625 and max temp never went above 79C. The fan curve was set to around 1750rpm at max above 75C. It idles around 37C. A week before I got this cooler, I tried the thermalright peerless assassin 120A. Its a nice svelte yet beefy dual tower cooler. I used lian li unifans on that instead of the stock ones. Unifans are rates at 2.50 H2O/, stock only had static pressure of 1.5 H20/ so I didnt even bother with them. I also used noctuas h2 thermal paste for both of these coolers. With the same pbo settings, in Cinebench 23, it had all cores at 4.5ghz and a max temp of 82C. Unifans were also set to 1750 rpm. The unifans were much louder at even 1500 rpms than the noctua fans at full blast. I was perfectly fine with the thermalright. Unifans looked really nice on it and putting 1 fan in the back instead of the front allowed me to still see the Corsair platinum dominator ram and performance was decent enough for this CPU in a sff case. But I was one of those who were waiting on the NH-U12A chromax.black for 6 months. So when it came out a week later, I just had to check it out. Im so glad I did. It is so much quieter, temperature drops down way quicker and idles 6C cooler. I shouldve tried the noctua fans on the thermalright heatsink but didnt real think about it. But considering the $46 thermalright price and $60 for the Unifans, youre right in the area of the NH-U12A chromax.black anyway. This cooler was worth the wait and the hype is real. Highly recommend.