The end result is a cooler that can cope with any CPU released to date cooled including even the most high-end Haswell and Skylake SKUs. Their can't-miss color scheme of tan and brown may not be to everyone's taste, but it does make them stand out. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns and to track the efficiency of our advertising campaigns, both on our services and on other sites or mobile apps. I know it seems silly but I have the cooler and it's unopened so I can still exchange without losing money whilst getting something that may be more motherboard friendly in the future.

Qualität, die überzeugt: Noctua ist bekannt für seine hochwertigen Produkte und dieser Kühler ist keine Ausnahme. The only extra purchase I needed was a box of surgical swabs to clean the cpu up after removing the old cooler. In their long line of CPU coolers, Noctua introduced the NH-D15D coolers, especially made for those that require Noctua's best model cooler yet yearn a little more silence.I've always actually quite liked the "industrial" look of the NH-D15, and having heard how good they are in terms of noise, I decided to give it a go. That and the fact that users can still slap a second fan on for maximum performance without issue certainly doesn't hurt either.

Thanks to its recessed lower fins, the NH-D15S provides 66mm clearance for tall memory heatsinks, making it compatible with most high end modules on the market. As the lower fins are recessed on both sides of the heatsink, compatibility is excellent on both Intel and AMD sockets.

Went for the D15S Chromax Black as it looks amazing, and prefer the 'sandwich' tower coolers, where the fan is in-between the heatsink.

As we saw on the previous page, the NH-D15S was one of the only CPU coolers to offer the lowest load temperatures with our Core i7-3770K at 4.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. Thanks to its recessed lower fins, the NH-D15S provides 65mm clearance for RAM with tall heatspreaders or RGB illumination, making it compatible with most high-end modules on the market. In addition, the maximum fan speed can be reduced from 1500 to 1200rpm using the supplied Low-Noise Adaptor for even quieter operation. And losing 1C is negligible for having a PCIE clearance for next decade to be comfortably open to any future motherboards with their each PCIE positioning which might incompatible with D15. Users who have sufficient room can also upgrade the cooler with either a 120mm or round 140mm fan on the front fin stack for further improved performance in dual fan mode.