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the BitFenix prodigy M is compact and ready for anything click now to learn more welcome to my unboxing of it seriously to leave your plus vitamins on the table of the Nhu 14s which is part of their award-winning u series which basically was what the Germans used to win the weight now that's probably not funny they're Austrian okay hold on so the hu 14s is a single tower heat pipe cooler so not like the D series so there D 14 is the dual Tower one it retains the same performance as their previous view series coolers but does some does it a little bit differently so it has a slimmer profile that allows the Nhu 14 s to be installed on a motherboard even in LGA 2011 motherboard with fans with full height ramped and not have any interference so let's go ahead and pull this bad boy out of here as always knock to as packaging is excellent if a little bit plain so it's just plain cardboard packaging fully recyclable which I do actually like to see inside we see that they've included one of their NFA 15 fans which is a 140 millimeter fan that actually uses 120 millimeter mounting points so this gives it pretty good compatibility however this particular fan design you can tell just by looking at it was pretty much optimized for this cooler you can tell because you see right here the vibration reducing pads that are on the four corners of the fan are set up perfectly to sit on here you go this piece right here on the outside of the Nhu 14s now when it comes to product quality if you guys have been watching me for any period of time you'll already know what I think about the Nhu 14s what I thought about it before I even opened it it is the utmost pinnacle of product quality noctua makes excellent gear they back it up with a six year warranty which you might say want to heatsink that doesn't matter will on and it does they're saying their friend will not die for six years or they'll deal with it for you they use some of the best actually I would go as far as to just call they're mounting mechanism the best in the industry you can see right here it comes in either this box right here for the Intel mounting system so it's going to have like you know wicked solid hold down pieces that are made of like thick old steel it's going to have all the little screws and a nice little package here it's going to have a thick backplate I mean look at that thing it's rugged and it's going to huh it's going to have the option for you to upgrade it for free later in all likelihood because Noctua has done that for years now offering existing customers new mounting hardware for future sockets so there's the AMD stuff in here as well as all the accessories in this box right here so this is where you'll find your C even their case badges are better than other people's case badges they include a gorgeous metal case badge as well as noise dampening strips so if you don't want to use not to a fans they do include a couple of rubber strips so you can use different fans but you should probably use the Noctua fence a couple more metal retention clips for mounting different fans to the heatsink as well as their nth one which is good I mean it's not the best thermal compound on the market unlike everything else about the product which does happen to be as good as it gets but it's not bad at all they've also got some additional corner mounts that's kind of interesting for the fan presumably so that's kind of neat and then they've got a screw driver so you don't actually even have to have any extra tools in order to install the Nhu 14s speaking of installing it on the base right here you will find that it is actually not that shiny of a base so we'll do the obligatory finger shot there you can see you can't make up my finger that clearly guys the the shininess of the base does not actually necessarily tell you anything about the thermal performance of it this has been true for years Swift Tech was one of the ones that had trouble with this because they used to do a very flat look on the bottoms of their blocks but it was flat even though it wasn't shiny and they sometimes got flack for that versus other manufacturers highly polishing the bases but they weren't actually flat which is not conducive to it being a better cooler this particular base doesn't happen to be completely flat it's a little bit bowed which has been shown with the high mounting pressures we use today to give slightly better performance than a completely flat base and you can see right here at the bottom they use six heat pipes and it should be noted that even though they're quite small heat pipes they're not you know super pipes like a soos actually here I have them happen to have it right here is using a 10 millimeter heat pipe on their latest gtx 780 cards you can see by contrast the 4 millimeter pipes don't look that big but quality of heat pipes is actually terribly important whereas the size of them is important but is not the only factor the overall manufacturing of it is of course perfect it has no blemishes on it whatsoever the fins are all completely straight exactly like you'd expect from nock to as excellent packaging and check it out more on that hold down I mean look how thick that piece of steel is on the top of this cooler so what is the advantage basically they've taken the U series they've upgraded it to 140 millimeter giving you better performance while the same performance but giving you better performance in a slimmer form factor than what you can get elsewhere allowing you to use a nice high performance cooler to fans and full-size memory modules meaning that you can actually cool your memory directly with the fans on your CPU heatsink as well without further ado I'm going to sign off and hand you guys over to slick to talk about the performance of the Nhu 14s on our standard test bench so we can start with idles at 20 degrees Celsius so if you want to see more details about our ambient temperatures and the rounding and everything that's going on you can check out the Google Doc that's linked in the description but these are our temperatures at 20 degrees Celsius for idle so I was kind of surprised at how well it actually performed and now a few you can be looking at the Zalman results and be a little bit confused but what's going on there is I have that fan turned down to 1,100 rpm and that fan actually naturally runs a lot faster now we can't replace the fan on that cooler so in the review of that cooler we'll have a couple of different RPMs going on there but I was really impressed with its performance on idle and we're gonna move on to load now into load performance which I'm a lot more interested in because honestly I know the going to work on idle its load that I'm really kind of worried about and I'm interested to see how things will play out so that you can see the hidi and the Zelman res Raider three kind of fight with themselves down at the bottom and then the interesting race is a little bit higher than that with this guy on the Corsair h100 I again will have more numbers as time goes on except to rerun a lot of things but I was really impressed with it did quite well and it makes sense because of how big it is and because of the fact that it has a much larger higher performance fan but I was still quite impressed like this video if you liked it dislike this video if you don't like it and in the comments what are you going to go with now a iOS have been here for a while but there's still some perceived terror over them now are you going to go with an AI o or an air cooler that's up to you and if you like this video please subscribe