Noctua NH-U12S CPU Cooler Review

 

Unboxing Continued

 

 

Once you remove the boxes, under them is a piece of cardboard and then under that is the actual NH-U12S CPU cooler.

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The fan comes pre-installed for you and ready to go. The fan is the NF-F12 120mm fan.

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The NH-U12S is a thin profile style CPU cooler, it’s only 45mm wide or deep and it’s 125mm wide. On the top you’ll find eight tops of heatpipes, the heatpipes are U-Shaped, so there’s really only four of them.

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Here’s a couple more view of the cooler with the fan still attached:

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Then here’s the views of the base section, here you can see the bottoms of the heatpipes and they’re staggered going into the cooling fins.

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The base comes with the mounting hardware attached.

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The hardware works for both AMD and Intel sockets so you’ll only need to install the correct hardware for or on the CPU socket.

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One of the most important parts of any CPU cooler is the base of course and yes it’s not  a mirror finish but that doesn’t matter as much as it being flat. The base is flat, or at least it seems very flat to me.

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It does have a somewhat mirror finish to it as you can see from the next picture:

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The fan is the Noctua NF-F12 as I mentioned.

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As you can tell from the back of the fan it’s very unique looking. Noctua calls it a Focused Flow fan  and that’s what those peculiar looking ‘fins’ on the back are for essentially.

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Then of course here’s the NH-U12S without the fan on it. The cooler is very well made but that’s expected as it is a Noctua product and they are well made and designed.

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