Noctua NH-D15 - LanOC Reviews

Noctua NH-D15 - Our Test Rig and Methodology

Details: Category: Cooling Hardware; Published: Friday, 02 January 2015 09:27

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Our Test Rig and Methodology

Cooling Test Bench
Processor	Intel Core i5-2500	Live Pricing
Motherboard	Asus Sabertooth P67	Live Pricing
Storage	Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB	Live Pricing
RAM	Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz 8GB	Live Pricing
Video Card	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760	Live Pricing
Case	Cooler Master xB	Live Pricing
OS	Windows 7 Home Premium x64	Live Pricing
Thermal Paste	Noctua NT-H1	Live Pricing

Cooling Tests Ran
Peak Test	Prime95 for a total of 30 minutes at 100% fan speed
Real World Test	3DMark 11 Combined Test for a total of 30 minutes at 100% fan speed
Noise Testing	Noise level measurements taken with a digital sound level meter every 10 minutes throughout the test to be averaged into an overall comparison score

Posts in discussion: Noctua NH-D15

garfi3ld replied the topic: #36075 02 Jan 2015 14:33

Its going to take a lot longer than two days before I start remembering to write 2015, lucky for me I never learned to remember to write 2014 so I'm ahead of the game already. That said I did manage to spend a little time with Noctua's flagship heatsink and it is as big and impressive as you would expect, check it out!

trgtprctc replied the topic: #36084 03 Jan 2015 03:12

I have the NH-D14 in my current rig and have been immensely impressed with it. I will certainly keep Noctua air coolers on my short list for future builds.