The Noctua NH-D15 CPU Air Cooler which is based on the NH-D14 Cooler comes with 2 massive aluminum heatsink towers, 6 copper heatpipes per tower, smooth copper baseplate, 140mm fans & new I'm not really sure if I should get an NH-D15 or an AIO. CPU-AMD Ryzen 9 5900X / CPU Cooler-Noctua NH-D15S / Motherboard-MSI MPG X570S CARBON MAX WIFI / Memory-G.Skill Trident Z Neo 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 / Storage-WD WDBSLA0040HNC-NRSN 4TB 3.5" 7200 RPM / Storage-WD Red 6 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM--Crucial P3 4TB 3.0X4 NVME--Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB 4.0X4 NVME--Corsair MP600 CORE 2TB 4.0X4 Regardless, none of them look that extreme, as long as it fits in your case, and doesn't bump into ram or whatever, it's not overkill. The low profile (NH-L9a-AM4) would be underkill unless that's all that'll fit. The cooler you can keep your CPU, the better boost you'll get, and bigger fans make more airflow with less noise, so bigger is better. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. The 15s is better for board compatibility, but only has one fan, IIRC, performance is effectively identical when both have the same fans. iirc it is only a 1-2c difference with/without second fan. I have the NH-D15 and my temps idles at 30c and maxes out at 72c under load. Feb 8, 2015. #16. Noctua's do have good fans (peformance) and is a large part of the cost of the cooler. A dual fan cooler from noctua likely has $40+ worth of fans on it alone if they were bought retail separately. Their color choices are out there and the 'ugly' colors have sort of become iconic. CPU cooler choice. I don’t really have a budget, although I would most definitely prefer the cheaper option. Anyway my current choice are NH-U12S Redux, NH-D15, NH-U12A, and NH-U9S. I would expect the more expensive = lower temperature, what I’m wondering is by how much and my CPU is an i5-11600K. I’m just really worried if I go for the So the D15 will fit in a R5 and not clash with Ripjaws ram. So the r5 supports up to 180mm cpu coolers and the noctua is 165. ram clearance for the noctua is 32mm in dual fan mode and the Ripjaws X is 40mm so if I were to raise the fan above the ram by 8mm so the ram would fit then the height of the noctua would be 165mm+8mm= 173mm and the Just assembled my PC. My CPU is i7 13700kf and cooler Noctua NH-D15 with Arctic MX-4 thermal paste. I wanted to stress-test it after assembly to understand if I applied both cooler and thermal paste correctly and tried running Cinebench R23. When I run it, I get these results just after 3-5 seconds of running: .

is noctua nh d15 good