It has an rpm range of 450-2000, but remember Noctua includes the NA-RC14 low-noise adapter if you wanted to keep things quieter at 1700rpm.

With the help of the proven SecuFirm2 mounting system, the NH-D12L from Noctua can be installed quickly and reliably. While the fans can be moved upwards to increase RAM clearance, this will increase the total height of the cooler and thus requires additional clearance inside the chassis. Registered office: Klarna UK Limited, 7th Floor, 33 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0PW, United Kingdom.You can add a fan on the front if you wish, but RAM height and overall height of the fan compared to the cooler may negate the reason for it, in the first place, to stay at 145mm in size. I am still surprised Noctua is still not packing their newer NT-H2 thermal paste, as it should just be included by default while the older one can be phased out or sold separately. It all gets repeated eight other times, but if you look closely at the bottom left, you will find two tiny dimensional renderings of the cooler inside. With a height of only 145 millimeters, the cooler would also fit in the popular Lian-Li O11 Dynamic.

However, the front tower is significantly thinner than the rear one to avoid physical conflict between the heatsink and the DIMM slots for RAM on Intel LGA 115x/1200/1700 or AMD AM4 socket boards (including the already announced future AM5 support). Noctua boasts this is widely considered the best fan on the market, and such a tower will need this type of a workhorse to keep up with what it needs to do. While many companies attempt to eliminate the machining marks, Noctua employs them as more surface area. If you require an upgrade kit for a future socket and the cooler supports it, Noctua will almost always get you one for free.

They do exist, but not every cooler manufacturer has them, and their global availability is questionable. No other changes were made to the system during testing besides the above mentioned heatsink/fan swaps. Removing it from the center of the cooler allows us to see the sticker with its specifications and shows how the rounded frame offers more clearance than a typical square-framed model, and we see that the cable is sleeved. Testing was conducted both with one fan installed between the radiator sections, which ensures good compatibility with RAM modules, and with two fans.

Airflow through the passive part of the heatsink is provided by a modified version of the NF-A12x25 fan. Credit is provided by Novuna Personal Finance, a trading style of Mitsubishi HC Capital (UK) PLC, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Otherwise, Noctua also packed some packing material inside to ensure everything arrived in good condition.I still appreciate the fact Noctua is one of the few manufacturers that send their products in their own boxes.

The round-frame type utilized on the NH-D12L delivers the same famous silent cooling performance while reducing the total cooler height without compromising compatibility with tall motherboard heatsinks or shrouds.Supporting Intel LGA1700 (LGA17xx family), LGA1200, LGA115x (LGA1150, LGA1151, LGA1155, LGA1156) and LGA20xx (LGA2066, LGA2011-0, LGA2011-3), as well as AMD AM4 and AM5, the SecuFirm2™ mounting included with the NH-D12L is straightforward to install, provides perfect contact pressure and will stand the test of time even under heavy use. When modern CPUs use their turbo modes, they can (depending on the configuration of the UEFI BIOS) dissipate much more heat than indicated by the manufacturer’s TDP (Thermal Design Power) specification. These fans use an SSO bearing for support and are housed in a round frame to help limit the tower's overall height. Adding in the overclock increased the thermal results, but we can see that the NH-D12L stood its ground and came in at 67. The round-frame variant used on the NH-D12L provides the same renowned quiet cooling performance yet makes it possible to reduce overall cooler height without risking compatibility issues with tall motherboard heatsinks or shrouds.