Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4, Premium CPU Cooler for AMD AM4 (Brown)

Always use Noctua fans and coolers in my builds they may be slightly more expensive but well worth it for the ultra quiet cooling.

It still makes noise, like any fan. Low frequency and not annoying though.

works well and is very quiet.

Little noise and the noise you do hear is actually nice to listen to unlike many other coolers. I like my builds quiet and to look nice. Noctua always can provide that for both

Noctua coolers are great however if you are buying this for AM4 and think you are getting the advertised AM$ SE special edition think again. I received the standard cooler in the standard box (missing the SE AM4 wording) with a small paper sticker on it claiming that it was the SE. Inside was an Intel LGA bracket and an AMD2 bracket and instructions which may or may not be applicable to an AM4 board. The fittings were certainly different to those in the picture so I didnt bother trying to fit it and sent it back.

I bought this cooler to replace the stock cooler on my AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU. Im not a gamer so the computer is primarily for business software. I built the computer a few months back and it was very noisy. So I decided to replace the two noisiest components, the power supply and the cooler. First I replaced the power supply since that was the louder of the two. I went for “Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 750W 80+ Gold SLI/Crossfire Ready Ultra Quiet 140mm Hydraulic Bearing Smart Zero Fan Full Modular Power Supply 10 Year Warranty PS-TPD-0750FNFAGU-1 “ This is a fantastic PS, absolutely quiet..5 dB till about 60% (i.e. 450 Watts of quiet power). After replacing the PS, the stock cooler noise became even more irritating. I researched a few different coolers, most of which were in $40-50 range but had a little more noise levels. Since I wanted a very quiet one, I decided to go for Noctau brand based on reviews I had read an a few different websites. I selected Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4 primarily because it is meant for AM4 processors.. This is a BIG cooler, so I looked up for compatibility with my hardware. Even though my motherboard (Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite) did not show up on the list, I measured the space required for the cooler and found it could easily fit.

Got this over others due to reports of other coolers being difficult to install. This was a breeze. Also very quiet. In my opinion, worth the money. Also comes with good thermal compound.

Installé dans un setup MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk avec un Ryzen 7 3700X, ce ventirad fait très bien le job en assurant une température stable tout en étant silencieux. Lemplacement des RAM est préservé, cest ce que je recherchais.

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Brilliant cooler keeping Am4 chip lovely and cool. Worth the money.