Noctua Intros NH-C12P Special Edition CPU Cooler

[senninex]

Performance is important not its differences between other coolers : ]

And I bet this thing is freaken outstanding personally.

More fin = more cooler = more performance!

 

[pantherx12]

More fin = more cooler = more performance!

Not necessarily, the noctua comes with a fan, the fin spacing could be optimised for that fan in particular.

They may of found it made a fraction of a difference having that many fins so they didn't bother.

They're is more to the design then amount of fins.


My HR-O3 GT VGA cooler is smaller then my Twin Turbo by Artic cooling, yet it beats it by a fair bit performance wise : }

 

[Mussels]

too many fins and you restrict airflow, which can also affect temps negatively (unless you have high pressure fans)


This setup could be optimised for a large, low CFM, low pressure fan for quiet/silent enthusiasts

 

[pantherx12]

I would love to use this in a HTPC actually.

 

[senninex]

too many fins and you restrict airflow, which can also affect temps negatively (unless you have high pressure fans)


This setup could be optimised for a large, low CFM, low pressure fan for quiet/silent enthusiasts

But my geminii-s perform well with that fin gap with auto fan speed enable!
If noctua add some more fin like (geminii-s fin gap), i believe it not cause a problem for cooling but its more power of cooling. Noctua team should know how it perform & their cannot make it perform sooooo well since they want to lunch new product that better than this NH-C12P.

If new product performance is still same with the old one... who want buy the expensive?

 

[Inioch]

I've no idea about this big missing bit though, seems to not make much sense.

The missing bit also helps more air get to the motherboard components.
The original C12P is a good cooler. I have one and do 4GHz with a C0 E8500, loads at about 58c, 1,328v.

The best part is, I can keep the fan at full speed and never hear a thing.

 

[PaulieG]

Here is the grand daddy of this type of cooler. It was an excellent s775 cooler, and honestly among the highest build quality of any cooler I've ever owned.

http://www.enzotechnology.com/extreme_x.htm

 

[RejZoR]

But why oh why are they sticking to these awful colored fans. Sure they are high quality, but they are also butt ugly.

 

[Hunt3r]

Until this is pretty cooler

 

[Beertintedgoggles]

Here is the grand daddy of this type of cooler. It was an excellent s775 cooler, and honestly among the highest build quality of any cooler I've ever owned.

http://www.enzotechnology.com/extreme_x.htm

Well close, but according to the chronological order the Thermalright SI-97 (which the GF thought looked like the Star Trek Enterprise) would be the great grand dad of this type.... then the XP-90, then XP-120, then what I still use now the SI-128 which I love with a high pressure fan on it.

Edit: If you're talking performance wise I still think I'd bet on this lapped SI-128 with a 120x38mm Silverstone pushing some serious air through the high density fins.