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so today we're going to take a look at knock Shores D 15 s which is the updated model of the D 15 ladies and gentlemen welcome back to tech es city this is brian coming back to you guys today with the second knock shoe Akula review a very recent now I tested the D 15 and honestly a lot of what applies with this review today will be exactly the same as the D 15 so if you want to go watch that video I'll put the link somewhere here where you can go click on it and check it out but I'll quickly save time with this review sirs essentially these coolers are exactly the same thing except the base plate has been shifted to allow this to fit an X 99 platform with ease without hitting that first 16 speed graphics port which is mainly where everyone wants to be installing their GPUs especially if they only have one however there is one caveat to getting the D 15 s over the D 15 and that is that it does come with one less fan in my opinion this is a negative since these 140 millimeter fans that came with the D 15 were absolutely kick-ass they pushed a lot of it and they did so whilst being very low in the noise Department so now we'll quickly go over a glance of the features of the D 15 s then I'll move on to the benchmarks and give you guys my subjective opinions and thoughts on the D 15 s so now with the D 15 s it's just like any natural product fantastic build quality fantastic unboxing experience comes packaged so well you get mounting kits there for both AMD and Intel you also get future compatibility support from nock Shore themselves in that if a socket doesn't fit you can just email them and they'll send you out the respective bracket for free which is absolutely amazing customer service in my opinion now everything on this is flush there's no sharp edges on the cooler as well so diabetics will be home and hosed king of the dimensions themselves this cooler measures a hundred and 61 millimeters wide by a hundred and fifty millimeters long by a hundred and sixty four millimeters tall you've also got sixty four millimeters of clearance therefore the RAM in both a horizontal and vertical configuration on all platforms looking at the base of the unit itself however we've got a mirror finish here which is nickel-plated over copper and that extends the copper heat pipes which are also nickel-plated as well which are then connected to all the aluminium fins and this cooler weighs in at 1.15 kilograms with one fan attached as opposed to the d15 which weighed in at one point three kilograms with two fans attached you also get extra fan Clips there and a low-noise adapter as well as nock Shuler's fantastic thermal paste solution which does a very good job it cools just as well as mx4 which is some high-quality stuff included is also the very well laid out manuals there for installation which will allow even a dummy to install this cooler Knox will have also included a long Phillips head screw driver there which will take installation no time to install this cooler at all now moving on to the benchmarks this is where all the business happens we've got the 5820k at one point two five five volt there at four point three gigahertz at 22 degrees ambient temperatures and we can see here that the NOC shouid e15 s with only one fan does lose out to the gamers storm assassin and it comes close to the Animax t 40 which is a $40 cooler though keep in mind though when you put the low noise adapter on there the look the noise gets very low and this brings the temps up to 82 degrees so low noise freaks will be glad with the performance of this cooler considering there's just virtually no noise at all coming out when you do put that low noise adapter on there however it was important to note that when I did add an additional fan onto the D 15 s it did perform exactly the same as the D 15 which speaks lengths for noxious quality control in that pretty much every D 15 coming out is performing identically and they're machined very nicely onto the skylight benchmark with my 6600 K clocked at 4.6 ago that's at one point three five volt we can see the D 15 s here with one fan is doing a great job it's cooling about the same as a T 40 though with the low noise adapter there it is just making absolutely no noise and still putting our decent temps though when I did again put the additional fan on there it performed exactly the same as the D 15 so but the six core and the four core will be kept well under control with the D 15 s though let's move on now to a conclusion so overall in conclusion with the D 15 I was very impressed just like the D 15 I mean Knox was build quality and attention to detail are just absolutely amazing they are the best when it comes to air cooling though one thing I was disappointed though with the D 15 s is that it only comes with one fan and I think that the D 15 and what made it king of the hill was the fact that it did come with those two fans and they are required for it to beat out all the rest of the competition at least when I did my benchmarks so it was a little bit disappointed that it didn't come with the extra fan there that the D 15 comes with since they are I think the same recommended retail price of 100 USD and I'll let imagine a lot of people are buying this for the six core for solutions on the enthusiast platform since it is a big and bad air core that will do a great job though I'm glad to say that it did alleviate that problem of able to fit it horizontally on the x99 platform so all in all I'm going to be giving the D 15 s four and a quarter stars out of five where it gain that quarter of a staff for compatibility it lost three-quarters of a staff for the fact that it didn't come with two fans and it was the two fans that made the D 15 king of the hill especially when it came to beating out all the other air coolers and it was that that I loved about this cooler not only was knock she was amazing build quality and attention to detail there but also the performance was there as well so with the only with one fan it starts to lose out that performance though keep in mind though that the noise and we will mention this with only one fan the noise becomes extremely low and that's the thing though for me personally with two fans on full overclocks and full load the d15 wasn't even noisy so you would have to be an absolute noise freak to need one fan on a low noise adapter that's just my opinion but it will be there it will accommodate people because with a low noise adapter on full load I mean I could hear everything else over that cooler so that's a very good thing on the noise very low noise there with one fan installed there one thing I will say the knock shoe it is I like their Redux fans as well so they've got the re Ducks fans which essentially are uncoded fans and you can spray them from the get-go whatever color you like so I'd like to see them maybe release a cooler with just redux fans as well and also maybe include an extra fan with the D 15 s that's just a little bit of feedback but I love this band I mean it's a hundred dollars it is a little bit expensive and if you do want it to be king of the hill you will have to pay an extra twenty dollars over the D 15 which was a hundred dollars as well so anyway guys that's about it I'd love to hear your comments and feedback on the D 15 s in the comment section below and also if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and I'll get back to you as soon as I can peace out for now bye