You could still reduce the 5900X's TDP/PPT or use eco mode if your Noctua can't handle it otherwise. wattHamster - Wednesday, January 18, 2017 - link A 6600K with an overclock definitely pushes a C7 pretty hard. Featuring sophisticated aerodynamic optimisations such as Flow Acceleration Channels, the NF-A14 is renowned to be among the best quiet 140mm fans on the market.

It's also a single-fan offering where the older NH-C14 used two fans, which allows the cooler to offer better memory and case compatibility. The use of low profile expansion cards may be possible with this layout, however, that is dependent on the height of the card – Noctua states 70mm of clearance officially.Noctua NH-C14S is designed to operate with a supplied Noctua NF-A14 PWM fan (compabitle with many other 140mm fans) with dimensions of 140 x 140 x 25 mm (square frame design), featuring the typical for the company colors, which I will not take the time to categorize, as probably out of 6 billion people in the world, there will be 6 billion different suggestions for the colors used. Accessories, leaflets with installation steps were all carefully packed and what you think when you unwrap them is if they were all packed from one person with white gloves – this is the level of attention that Noctua strives for. The last 50 minutes of each run was measured, and the temperature logs were analyzed in Open Office spreadsheets. However, case manufacturers sometimes change parts or details of their products without prior notice or explicitly indicating a revision.

In our next chart we have sorted each CPU cooler from highest to lowest by the number of heatpipes they have. Downdraft cooling is my personal preference over tower coolers, due to the simple side benefit of active board cooling. The only complaint anyone has is that their fan colors are quite awful, but would it truly be a Noctua cooler without that color scheme?Although many would argue about the color scheme of Noctua, I would say that they deserve that recognition, that distinction from other companies. The Noctua C14S uses SecuFirm2 multi-socket mounting kit, and includes NT-H1 thermal compound and six years manufacturer’s warranty. This is a test system that must be scaled back to test more normal heatsinks, so these heatsinks are cooling one hot testbed. Our third-party advertising partners may use these cookies to build a profile of your interests and deliver relevant advertising on other sites. The cooling tower has 66 nickel plated aluminum fins, each one is 1mm thick and there is a 2mm of gap between all of them.

An array of water coolers from SilverStone and Cooler Master reviewed by Brian Cheung and Preston Yuen were also included for relative comparisons between air and water cooling options. The NH-C14S is the successor to the NH-C14 which is a top-flow design cooler that is designed to be compatible with mini-ITX and micro-ATX motherboards. While the fans can be moved upwards to increase RAM clearance, this will increase the total height of the cooler and thus requires additional clearance inside the chassis. Credit is provided by Novuna Personal Finance, a trading style of Mitsubishi HC Capital (UK) PLC, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.Today, Noctua is present in more than 30 countries across the globe and working with several hundred sales partners. The biggest change with the NH-C14S, design-wise, is the additional heatpipe in the middle of the heatsink.

If you don't, you'll likely hear the fan having to run at higher RPMs to cool when the CPU is constantly boosting to hit it's maximum speed. The heatsink does not extend past the rear IO on this board, though, so compatibility in that respect is good. Please also keep in mind that other components such as narrow or small cases as well as memory modules with special (higher) heat-spreaders can cause compatibility-issues. The contact plate of Noctua NH-C14S is designed with perfectly milled, nickel coated contact copper plate, that has physical dimensions of 38 x 40 mm.

Offset design for PCIe clearance – Compared to the original NH-C14, the layout of the NH-C14S has been offset in two axis.