Noctua cooler, the Austrian specialist, yesterday introduced the new NH-C14 Premium, a new top-flow model that can be equipped with up to two 140 mm fans. It offers you the buyer a usual high quality, but also what is reflected in the price.
"Our coolers NH-C12 are among the most powerful top-flow solutions on the market, so it makes us proud that we could achieve with the new NH-C14 a further significant improvement," says Roland Mag Moss, CEO of Noctua . In principle, can say that the NH-C14 corresponds approximately to a Noctua NH-D14, but just as a top-flow version.
The two built-in fans there are two Noctua NF-P14 FLX fans that rotate min with a maximum of 1,200 rpm, but with appropriate adapters on 900 or 750 U / min can be adjusted downward. The maximum noise level amounts to 19.6 dB (A) respectively 13.2 dB (A) or 10.1 dB (A).
Over the 6 massive heat pipes, the heat of the CPU is directed to the cooling fins, which are expected to cut their teeth by design, the noise of the fan on. As a special feature called, however, the possibility to mount the fan ever will. For strong cooling performance, the buyer can use both. In a HTPC but can only be mounted lower, so the cooler is only 105 mm high. You would want to use with high RAM heat sinks, it can be used, only the upper, creating in the cooler 65 millimeters square.
To fasten the cooler on all current socket is the best Noctua NM-I3 SecuFirm2 Mounting Kit is used. Interestingly, the new base is already on the 1155 list of the supported platforms.