OC3D Review: Noctua NH-D14

[alienware]

Indeed. Makes me feel a tad bit embarrassed to be an American, as all I see spec wise anymore for most computers are nothing but Cooler Masters and Corsairs for cases with H50s and H70s being the cooler of choice. For coolers, it's like they try to get what's "cool" instead of what cools. That, and they probably fell for the lie of it being a real water cooling setup. And I'm sure the Corsair badge didn't help things much.

As for me, I'm wise enough to not fall for that ploy and plop down $120 for an H70 whenever I can get a superior NH-D14 for $80, or even a high quality water cooling kit with a 240mm rad for about the same price.

It's a shame, because all of the Americans I know and love (lived out there for ten years) were like, really clever intelligent people. It was widespread too. NJ, VA, MD, PA DE etc. I got around a bit lol. Mind you, the place I lived in in Ohio you could have fuelled a decade's worth of Jerry Springer shows

But yeah.. Earlier tonight I was reading some reviews of the Noctua NH on Newegg (mate in MD just ordered his) and one of them had me laughing...

"God these fans are so crap. They're ugly ETC ETC waah waah I replaced them with Yate Loons"

Way to completely miss the point. Did he not like, pick them up and feel how solid and well made they were? course not. First thing was the colour sucks. Who cares? they're beautifully engineered almost silent fans.

And there lies the problem. A lot of Americans don't care how something performs it's all about the looks. When I had my 200WHP Tiburon and it was sleepered down (pre spoiler and all that, I only did that 'cos I had to to sell it, no one wanted a plain fast car) I would get ragged on by V6 Mustang owners. Right up until we got out onto route 55 and I flipped them off and waved them goodbye. But even in defeat they would say "well I would still rather have my car because it LOOKS BETTER".

It's like those plums out there who show their test system with 24gb of ram in. Lmao.

 

[ionicle]

do noctua make a 939 adaptor for this heatsink?

problem:

i sleep...in my bed, in my bedroom, and my computer is on my desk, in my bedroom, and i usually leave it on overnight, and the whine from the cooler, and the fans, is ...well, making it difficult to sleep, i imagine for 939, it would keep it reasonably cool ...

EDIT: and it seems my temps aint too good either, i just remembered about coretemp, id long since forgotten bout it ...here's a shot, of it, just idling, not doing much more than just internet and music....

 

[alienware]

I don't think so. The older NH-C12P does though IIRC and that's mega silent. If you can find one, of course.

 

[ionicle]

someone should make a 939 adapter for it

939 isnt that out of date now is it?

 

[alienware]

Yes.

 

[ionicle]

jeez, i only went 775 once, and then i shot streight back to 939, core 2 duo was a miserable failure for me, and ive stuck with AMD and 939 ever since

 

[mrapoc]

theres a 775 adapter for it

Keeping my q6600 cool as iceeeee

 

[ionicle]

think any third parties make a 939 adapter? ive had a quick google, but nowt so far...

EDIT: acording to this site: http://www.overclock.net/air-cooling/628569-official-noctua-nh-d14-club-70.html

if you order one, and you have 939, and you ring them, they send you a 939 adapter

EDIT2: i have just emailed them, asking, and i will post here with any updates, if they email me back, or if they laugh at me

 

[Brooksie]

I'd imagine they would say "Save the money you're going to buy the cooler with and get a new PC, then get the cooler"

 

[alienware]

Hmm cool beans man. Good old Noctua FTW again.

 

[Stryker64]

holy cow 89*C on core 0??!!!

Anyway, don't those Noctua coolers that support Opteron use K8? Sure it's not a D14, but it should be able to keep your system nice and cool, while remaining quiet

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=207_23_313&products_id=13801

EDIT: I also found the adapter it costs a massive $2

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=207_23_833&products_id=7011

 

[ionicle]

they aint emailed me back yet, but a google about their customer service says its second to none...

theres a lot of threads about that say people email them with 939 or 754 sockets and if you buy a cooler and show them the recept, they will send you one free of charge...sounds good to me

should keep my 939 cool even if i took the fans off i bet

haha

the gigabyte cooler i have on it at the moment isnt exactly....good

lol

 

[cinek2]

any ideas if this will fit on the gigabyte P67 UD7 mobo?

 

[tinytomlogan]

any ideas if this will fit on the gigabyte P67 UD7 mobo?

/Turns round and looks. Yep its still on there.

Yeah it fits

 

[cinek2]

awesome

thanks a lot Tom!

btw when's the review coming out?

 

[cinek2]

does it fit on the Asus P8P67 DELUXE at all?

 

[SnW]

awesome

thanks a lot Tom!

btw when's the review coming out?

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/gigabyte_p67a-ud7_preview/1 "preview" ..

does it fit on the Asus P8P67 DELUXE at all?

I have seen one on it just depends a bit on what memory spreaders but that can be solved as well...

 

[tinytomlogan]

The D14 should fit every mobo but the ones with real extreme sized NB sinks. the main issue is ram with this cooler tbh.

 

[cinek2]

cool, thanks. I got the exceleram rippler, which is the same size as the mushkin ridgeback so it should be fine

 

[Techno Tortoise]

do you think you would be able to remove the 120mm fan and put on there 140 mm fan ? also could you with another bracket put on a third fan ????