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Noctua NC-U6 Northbridge Heatsink Review

Cooling/VGA & Other Cooling by jmke @ 2007-01-22

Noctua made quite a splash with their high end NH-U series of heatsink, delivering high performance at low noise levels, this miniature tower version fits on your northbridge and is passively cooled for total silence. Can it keep a hot nForce4 SLI chipset from frying, let´s find out.

A Closer Look and Fan Support

A Closer Look

The NC-U 6 has excellent finishing and eye for detail, looking at the photos below, without comparison material next to it, you might even mistake it for CPU cooler

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The base is quite smooth, and shows only small traces of machine lapping

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The aluminum fins are evenly spread out over the 2 U-shaped heat pipes, you can also see a few cutouts in the fins, which allows you to fix a fan onto the NC-U 6.

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Fanning

Noctua did not include fan mounting clips; the NC-U 6 seems to except 60mm sizes only, while you can force to fit other sizes, it’ll be less easy. Below you can see the NC-U 6 with a 40mm and 80mm fan:

Let’s get it installed ->

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