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the nhd 14 has rained for over four years as one of if not the king of the castle for dual Tower heat sinks but Noctua hasn't been sitting on their thumbs and finally we have a successor the NHD 15 is here for the ultimate no compromises compact gaming PC look no further than the obsidian series 250d from Corsair click now to learn more now to fans of previous Noctua products the family resemblance between the D 14 and the D 15 will be fairly obvious they both feature six heat pipes soldered onto a flat shiny base they both feature two large towers with stacked aluminum fins and they are both intended to run in a dual fan configuration with high quality fans included in the box in this case static pressure optimized NF a 15 140 millimeter pwm fans with integrated anti vibration mounts and they are both capable of mounting a third aftermarket fan for even better performance when we look closer though we start to notice some differences first up is that the fin stacks have been widened this allows the six heat pipes to have more spacing between them for better efficiency next we see that the bottoms of the fin stacks have actually been cut away for better memory compatibility this gives you a ton of options you can populate both sides with fans and low profile RAM you can populate the center with a fan and put high profile RAM on both sides of the duel tower heatsink something I've never seen before or you can throw two fans in and have high profile RAM on one side one last option is that you can actually raise the outside fan if you need a little bit more space for RAM just make sure your side panel is far enough away from your motherboard for this to work because it's going to stick up above the top of the heatsink inside the box aside from the high quality included fans with their 6 year warranty you'll find low noise adapters for the fans that reduce them from 1500 to 1200 rpm a Wye cable so that both fans can be PWM controlled off of a single motherboard header a tube of nth one thermal pound and knock to us legendary that's not as exciting as I thought legendary sec you firm to mounting hardware which their renowned not only for creating but also for upgrading for free for existing customers when new sockets come out with only a couple of exceptions not too as mounting hardware is so much better than everyone else's that for once I really do wish that everyone would just copy their design so the entire industry could have better mounting hardware okay so I guess all that's really left at this point is how does it actually perform I will leave that to loop to cover you will be putting the NHD 15 up against the very best all-in-one liquid coolers on the market for at a battle royale of top end air cooling versus top and liquid cooling and I think that you guys will be impressed by the results spoiler alert I'm still a knock to a fanboy alright guys so for the test environment we have a 48 20 K running at one point three volts at a speed of 4.0 gigahertz we also have a GTX 580 in there overclocked a little bit running combustor to see heat up the place on the CPU we run prime95 to heat up everything there so that this is a very stressful environment and we're testing the cooler while under load in a really harsh kind of above the top situation we also have a c7 t as our standard test bench in case we run all of our coolers in this case and that's what this one was done in as well in terms of mounting the cooler with knocked with sucky firm two mounting hardware it's pretty freaking easy judging by the size of the cooler you expect it's going to be really difficult but once you mount the anchor points in and with the custom screwdriver that they give you it's it's honestly a breeze I had no complications installing this cooler at all in terms of noise levels it did great but then everything we test here does great because we standardize on Noctua fans all the other coolers we test get a nice little advantage because we add value by adding aftermarket fans to their cooling setups these aren't after markets and fans for Noctua because they're not to a fans the exact ones that we're testing with are the ones that come in the box because they're the exact same model before I jump into performance I would highly suggest opening a new tab closing this one checking out tech quickie and watching Linus's video on liquid cooling radiators it's a really good watch and will help inform you about a few things about liquid cooling if you do know about it continue on watching and we'll talk about performance so the NH dash D 15 performs really well I was kind of surprised that it beat an H 110 although that being said knock two has been sitting on this for a really long time so I was kind of expecting excellence from them it doesn't beat it by a lot though so it's an interesting kind of trade-off if you need that being able to put it somewhere else in the case because you're worried about sizing because this cooler is fairly tall maybe you need an a IO but if you're not worried about that maybe you're a little bit scared of liquid being in your case maybe this is the way you go let me know what you guys think in the comments down below and I'll see you guys next time speaking of silent performance audible.com actually I have no idea if Luke said anything about silence or performance because I'm shooting this before he does his part but I'm not too worried about it anyway my segways rarely make much sense anyhow so you've likely heard of audible.com if you've been on the internet but it's very possible that you haven't heard of their monthly audiobook service that you can join to get a new audiobook to listen to every month I jumped the gun a little bit and even though my son is only 2 as of today happy birthday I grabbed a wrinkle in time by Madeleine L'Engle for re-listen before I do the whole series with my son when he's a little bit older it's great for kids and adults and I highly recommend it 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