Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler

The NH-D14 is only Noctua's fourth heatsink design since the company's emergence in 2005. The others are a 12cm fan tower, a 9cm fan tower, and a 12cm fan top-down model. There are several variants of each and there have been subtle refinements over the years, but those three basic designs have made up the line. The low model count makes Noctua one of the most conservative heatsink specialists in the computer business, and in this case, the word conservative is meant positively. The company has also been diligent in updating the mounting systems of their variant models to be compatible for changes by Intel and AMD, with update kits made available for purchase, not only incorporated into new production. This kind of customer support is unusual and we wholeheartely applaud Noctua's approach.

The company's products have always shown a high degree of systems design thinking and very good attention to details. No surprise that they've received positive reviews from many web tech reviewers, including SPCR. In our recent retest of top heatsinks on our new i7 test platform, the Noctua NH-U12P tower heatsink's position among the top performers was re-established.