Noctua NH U14s worth buying?

Cuso · Sep 23, 2014

I was wondering is the Noctua NH U14s good and is it close to the performance as the NH D14? I want a small tower heatsink not a big one that will block a lot of my stuff in my case when i need to change things. I just placed my order for the NH U14s but I can cancel it any time. Any tips or answer? I don't want to go back to AIO water cooling I had problems in the past and just want to stick with air cooling. It's a stock i5 3570k not OC "overclock".

someguynamedmatt · Sep 23, 2014

I personally have a U12S, and it cools my Xeon E3-1240v3 just as well as the Corsair closed-loop cooler it replaced, even while sideways in a mini-ITX case. Can't go wrong with Noctua... their quality is pretty much unrivaled in all my past experiences.

Cuso · Sep 23, 2014

Thanks for the help The u12s was one of my other choice but the u14s is a little more up there in performance also that's why I was looking at it over the U12s and NH D14 since the D14 is a big tower heatsink which it doesn't mean my case can't handle it, it can it's just the length of it blocks a lot of my main things I'm going to change and don't really like to take the heatsink off and back on everytime which my case is the new Phanteks Enthoo Pro

TechCIDLC · Sep 23, 2014

All of Noctua's CPU coolers are the best out there. Even the smallest will give amazing airflow and very quiet. I personally would go for the NH-U12S.

Calculatron · Sep 23, 2014

The NH-U14S offers similar performance to the NH-D14. It is slightly taller (165mm) and wider, but it doesn't take up as much real-estate over the motherboard. I don't think it impedes DIMM slots, but, I could be mistaken.

The NH-U12S is smaller, but offers less performance.

They are both the same price on Newegg, currently.

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