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we never actually intended to do a review of this cooler originally I was just going to use it to upgrade the stock cooler that I installed in II Diesel's upgraded workstation back around the time I originally built it almost a year ago since our whole room water cooling project is a thing now though edie won't need an air cooler in his work station anymore so when Luke asked to borrow this for our MSI Nightblade review I was like sure take it and then apparently you guys liked it so much that you wanted to see a standalone review so here we are with the purchase of a qualifying Intel processor SSD or nook you could instantly win and Intel gaming Jersey and be entered in the draw for the ultimate system click now to learn more let's start with a physical tour of the unit you get the usual awesome naktu accessories thermal compound splitter cable to fans to low noise adapters I'm in the ITX mounting kit a case badge and their standard set Q firm mounting hardware more on that later then you get the heatsink itself which actually comes with both the NFF 12 PWM 120 millimeter fan and the NFB 992 millimeter fan pre mounted to it now the challenge with this little baby was keeping it narrow enough to avoid potential interference with nearby memory slots or vrm solutions on tiny MITx motherboards while keeping height low enough for half height or unusual size computer cases and then achieving both of those things with adequate cooling for you know high-performance quad core processors so not to a wet with an aluminum fin or a soldered to four copper heat pipes then soldered those again on the other side to there as always beautiful and shiny base plate they then put a clean-looking nickel coating finish over the whole thing and I mean that's tidy it looks nice and all that but it's not exactly groundbreaking no the really cool stuff with this cooler happens when we start looking at fan mounting options you probably noticed I said it comes with both 120 millimeter and 92 millimeter fans that are pre mounted now you can leave them both on there giving the cooler a 92 millimeter total profile or you can actually remove that top fan for reduced performance but a mere 66 millimeter profile which gives you some great flexibility in terms of mounting options speaking of mounting options I guess it's time to hand off to Luke to give you guys the performance skinny get it to dope because it's slim cooler ah anyway sorry the performance and mounting rundown on the NHL 12 in both our standard test bench and and the size Nightblade small form-factor bare-bones PC where we originally showed it to you installation of the NHL 12 was incredibly easy and I was kind of surprised you don't actually have to worry about that bottom fan you just leave it installed because all you have to do is feed your screwdriver through the little hole on the heat fins on the top and it goes in between the fins of the fan down below and lets you skir in a pretty elegant solution and they definitely thought about this while they were designing it okay so fairly obviously it gets crushed in the c70 because it's going up against some pretty big dogs some dual rad coolers and really big towers when we put it in the night blade against the intel cooler it crushes there as well and something to notice here is the zero on the intel cooler under load isn't because the intel cooler is magic given to us by some crazy demon it's because it totally failed and hit t.j.maxx under load and i had to stop it before bad things started happening or it throttled itself to help so and that could that processor was not even overclocked the only overclocked one was on the c 70 where we were doing our standard tests at one point three volts 4.0 gigahertz with small FFTs running on prime95 and combustor so i don't know pretty good job for a small cooler and a really good alternative in a small case to a stock intel cooler but if you have a full sized cooler maybe not but you probably knew that already speaking of fans I am a fan of the way team provides their customers with affordable and reliable wireless coverage they claim that their pay only for what you use model will save 90% of people money on their monthly cell phone bill but you don't have to take their word for it if you head over to - 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