NH-U12S chromax.black

Great price for an amazing quality cooler. Easy to mount with clear instructions. Immediately cooled my cpu down to beautiful temperatures as well as being extremely quiet and efficient.

This cooler is made by Noctua. This is my first purchase from them, and they live up the their reputation for excellent quality and performance! I was using the stock AMD cooler (Wraith?) that came with my Ryzen 3600. While the stock cooler was adequate for simple tasks such as word processing or the Internet, it fell short for intensive tasks such as video encoding. Starting an encode would immediately shoot temperatures up to 95°C and stay there, severely throttling the CPU. After installing this cooler (it comes with a tube of Noctua's own quality NT-H1 thermal paste) and a fan curve adjustment to accommodate the greater cooling performance, the CPU temperatures are much lower and the computer is much quieter! Idle temperatures are about 32°–36°C. Testing the performance with some video encoding, temperatures where at 70°–75° after an hour and the CPU never throttled once—Full boost throughout the entire process! Mounting the cooler was simple and straightforward with excellent instructions and diagrams. All necessary parts are included in the box. The AMD and Intel components are separate to avoid mixing them up. Extra mounting pads and brackets where provided in case you wanted to install a second fan in a push/pull configuration. The black color looks great, as black goes with everything! (No, I am not just saying that because the rest of my build is black as well.) I also used the included paste to reapply the thermal compound on my PS4 Pro, with more left over for future applications as well! Overall, Noctua has earned a costumer in me and a spot on my recommendation list.

First off, I like to congratulate Noctua for embracing aesthetics improvements to their coolers. With matt black finish and black fan designs, I am certain that it will be one of the most popular air coolers. And with Noctua's credibility in the air cooler scene, buyers can be sure of the cooling potential. That said, my PC setup consist of a Asus ROG XI Gene with Intel's i9-9900k. And I wanted to pair this Noctua NH-U12S, as it has a smaller footprint compared to the NH-D15. In hindsight, I should have gone for that one for the 9900k. On Noctua's website of CPU compatibility with this cooler, it mentions that supports 'medium turbo/overclocking headroom'. Technically it is not wrong, but I must say that become pretty subjective. For the Asus ROG XI Gene, with 'Load Optimized Defaults' selected; and no other settings adjusted. The 'Multi Core Enhancements' will be on Auto (which is enabled). And with this setting, the Vcore applied with this BIOS setting will cause the CPU to reach highs of between 90-100 DegC (ambient of 25 Deg C) on this cooler with a 'Standard Fan Profile' setup. To me, personally, this is too high. But I contribute this temperatures to the 'over voltage' setting by the Asus BIOS setup. And I must reiterate that the Noctua NH-U12S is performing great with dissipating heat and having a fan that is barely audible (even at ~1500rpm max). It is impressive in a lot of regards; and will serve as an extremely good cooler for other support CPUs (less the OC 9900k). With MCE disabled or after using Asus 5-way Optimization, the temperatures immediately becomes acceptable, around the 80 to mid 90s DegC. With MCE disabled, the strict thermal/freq limits to the CPU kicks in and will throttle back the CPU aggressively. With Asus 5-way optimization, the Vcore is 'tuned' accordingly to an 'acceptable' temperature limit; and with this done, I had the 'All Cores' turbo boost at 4.8GHz @ ~1.14. Currently, I am running the stock (single fan) setup for this cooler. I shall be trying different fan (and dual fans) setups soon. And of course, using Noctua's fans, my current favourite. Other good ones are Corsair ML fans, or the old school Sycthe Gentle Typhoon. Cheers, Ken

Ryzen 7 7700X (105W) işlemcide Aida64 stress testinde 70 dereceyi geçmiyor. %100 Fan hızına karşın çok hafif rüzgar sesi çıkarıyor. Thermal Grizzly macun ile kullanmanızı şiddetle öneririrm.

I too would normally never write a single review on anything. Until I came into contact with the Noctua NH-U12S. Just built a new PC and was using the AMD stock wraith prism RGB cooler on my Ryzen 3900x. As a RGB fangay, I'm definitely one to not shy away from RGB and love the gimmicks that come with it. The AMD wraith prism cooler looked alright but was significantly loud on both idle and active use (streaming/gaming/editing/etc.). I managed to reduce the noise levels during idle but it was still fluctuating between extremely loud and okay/decent. I've heard from many sources stating that this could be changed in BIOS/software and I had taken the necessary steps to reduce the noise but I noticed it would come at the cost of CPU temp or inconsistent fan levels (might be a BIOS issue). The Noctua NH-U12S puts all of these worries to waste and more - it's a high performing fan that runs basically fully silent in both idle and active load (running at around 30-35 degrees celcius on idle). Simple to set up, manual guide easy to follow that even a monkey could do it and its compatible across both Intel and AMD sockets (seperate guides for each, all in the box). I would hands down recommend this to anyone that is thinking between the AMD wraith prism or another CPU fan. No doubt in my mind that this would impress anyone looking to upgrade/build a new PC with AMD's latest Ryzen CPUs.

Hello there , I'm writing this as it would be helpful for you whom are searching for a air cooler for your cpu. I have a ryzen 5600X processor & with its bundled cooler I'm getting temperature above 80°C during gaming which is extremely hot. After many searches all over google & YouTube. I have found this one as a best option for my ryzen 5600x processor. Installation of Noctua U12-S is very easy. After installing this Cooler now my cpu temperature drops almost 15°C , during long gaming session it hits to <70°c with also fan noice is negligible to notice. Surely go for it. It's the best cpu performing cooler to cool down your cpu , as well aesthetic also awesome chromax black🖤

I needed a new cooler for my ASUS Z390 TUF-Gaming Plus WIFI ATX motherboard since I lost the mounting plates for previous cooler (switched from AMD to Intel CPU). I heard the Noctua fans were really quiet and like everyone else I really can't stand that brown color. The backplate for the classic EVO 212 was too tall for my case (Elite 430)- again typical problems with EVO 212 just being such an awkward size for so many systems. Thought I'd give this a try because it looks awesome and have heard good things, and the price seemed reasonable. Not only did the NH-U12S backplate fit just fine, it was far easier to install than the D92 I had previously. It fits perfectly and the instructions were fairly straight forward, with lots of guides online to help guide me. The fan is remarkably quiet I honestly thought my previous fans were quiet but I'm going to be replacing every fan in my system now with Noctua (if I can find black) or something similar. It keeps the CPU very cool and even when it picks up at full RPM its very quiet - and I'm not even using the like adapter PWM switch it came with (which allegedly makes it even quieter). Honestly this CPU cooler looks awesome and works awesome and was almost a joy to install (took me a while, but half of that was figuring out how to use the thermal paste LOL - twist the black cap - use pliers (carefully) if you need better grip). Only complaint is that I wish it came with a second fan so I could have the push / pull arranagement - it does come with the extra clip though so you can easily attach another fan - I just want all black instead of the antique signature brown lol) 5/5 would buy again. Looks almost apple-esque if you add a matching all black push fan.

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