Noctua Cooling Competition
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alexhull24
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I have a couple more ideas, would it be OK to add to my entry? I figured there's still about a week left to go so I thought I'd ask if that's allowed. It's all creative, of course.
Here's a short dirty Noctua poem (probably the first and last of it's kind!):
A geek met a gal at a brewer
He took her back home to do 'er
She said 'is it big?'
He thought of his rig
So instead he whipped out his Noctua!
I have yet another poem (more accurately limerick) that celebrates the success of our favourite cooling company:
Their products are beige and brown
They oft take the performance crown
They're top of the line
And get better with time
Noctua, the best firm in town!
Here's a short dirty Noctua poem (probably the first and last of it's kind!):
A geek met a gal at a brewer
He took her back home to do 'er
She said 'is it big?'
He thought of his rig
So instead he whipped out his Noctua!
I have yet another poem (more accurately limerick) that celebrates the success of our favourite cooling company:
Their products are beige and brown
They oft take the performance crown
They're top of the line
And get better with time
Noctua, the best firm in town!
Yeah go for it dude the more the merrier!
djpinc19
New member
Just noticed the "EU entrants" only line. I am therefore ineligible for this contest.
Stock cooling is DISGUSTING...at least to me.
I've beared with these things in various shapes and sizes for over a decade now.
...until a machine actually went down under the HEAT.
So what happened to the rest? Well to make a short story long, the Pentium 4 machine below with the Dell proprietary cooler is lame. It's an a small copper heatsink covered with a shroud to make the 80mm case fan double as the CPU fan. The biggest annoyance is the inability to work with this thing during those hot summer days here in Southern California. The fan is loud enough to be heard two rooms away.
To make that long story short, the stock cooling solution is lame.
Below, you will see my totally rad 140mm Noctua fan DOING SRS STU44
When I built my first machine, I made sure to have aftermarket cooling. Cool thing is I don't want to go back to stock. That's not even factoring in the OCing factor...
I always get positive feedback whenever someone sees my OCZ Vendetta, after all it was cheap. However, the thing about CPU heatsinks is that you can never get big enough. Your car can never go fast enough. Your money will never grow enough. Your girlfriend won't be pretty enough.
That's where the Noctua NH-D14 comes in...quite possibly the best air cooler available in North America while managing to stay quiet where you put it.
PINEAPPLES
Stock cooling is DISGUSTING...at least to me.
I've beared with these things in various shapes and sizes for over a decade now.
...until a machine actually went down under the HEAT.
So what happened to the rest? Well to make a short story long, the Pentium 4 machine below with the Dell proprietary cooler is lame. It's an a small copper heatsink covered with a shroud to make the 80mm case fan double as the CPU fan. The biggest annoyance is the inability to work with this thing during those hot summer days here in Southern California. The fan is loud enough to be heard two rooms away.
To make that long story short, the stock cooling solution is lame.
Below, you will see my totally rad 140mm Noctua fan DOING SRS STU44
When I built my first machine, I made sure to have aftermarket cooling. Cool thing is I don't want to go back to stock. That's not even factoring in the OCing factor...
I always get positive feedback whenever someone sees my OCZ Vendetta, after all it was cheap. However, the thing about CPU heatsinks is that you can never get big enough. Your car can never go fast enough. Your money will never grow enough. Your girlfriend won't be pretty enough.
That's where the Noctua NH-D14 comes in...quite possibly the best air cooler available in North America while managing to stay quiet where you put it.
PINEAPPLES
alexhull24
New member
Whilst stumbling across the internet, I found a glowing recommendation for Noctua from a well known scientist....
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJEyX8klJVM&feature=youtube_gdata[/media]
Impressive. Right from the top, say no more.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJEyX8klJVM&feature=youtube_gdata[/media]
Impressive. Right from the top, say no more.
If you're referring to mine, the guys at the store I bought it from.
alienware
Banned
Quad SLI with a stock cooler? I wouldn't buy from them again
'Tis actually two GeForce 7950 GX2's in SLI, but yeah, not buying anything from them ever again
i would like to start this off by saying tom u r awesome plain and simple. but i would like this new cooler because i am looking to upgrade to an i7 and would need a new cooler or a new water block but ill go with the free option if a can. I am currently using a thermal-take bigwater 760i liquid cooling system with a cooler master haf 932 and a 80mm fan hanging from my water block to cool my chipset i would send u a pic but i have not camara except for the one on my phone and well it would be a bad pic but well i would like the noctua casue it is one of the best air cooling solutions there is and cooling is very important i freak out when my cpu goes above 30c and then my freind calls me crazy cause his hits 100c and he actually boiled water on it and still did not care but well i have had 2 machines set on fire before dont ask me how that is possible but i had amd cpus litraley cach fir and burn up but they trash pick so life goes on
alienware
Banned
'Tis actually two GeForce 7950 GX2's in SLI, but yeah, not buying anything from them ever again
Yeah, quad SLI. Each of those cards is two 7950 GTX banded together. They weren't that bad either ! well, compared to the 7900 GX2 which lasted about a whole month before people realised something was badly wrong.
Runebeard
New member
Alien is actually right as well, "Quad SLi" means two Nvidia dul-gpu solutions whacked together, whilst the correct term for, say 4 x GTX480's would be "4-Way SLi" under general concensus.
Bu anyways, back to the competition people. I want to see some more good entries coming in
In this kind of situation yes you can dude.
Bloody hell Tom. I know you like Noctua mate but isn't this taking it a bit too far?
I was down Tescos earlier and look what was on the shelf.
When I say I LOL'd I mean that literally! Proper tears in my eyes!
alexhull24
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Haha nice one AlienALX that's classic!
