Noctua NH-C14 140mm x 2 SSO CPU Cooler

Pros: Keeps my CPU running in the low 70's
(2600K OC to 4.8Ghz)

Cons: Can get a little loud under load.

Pros: Very cool looking. Currently running Far Cry 3 on high settings with Intel i5 3570K. All 4 cores are running below 54C under load. Impressive!

Fans are VERY quiet. I used the highest power setting cable option and I still can't hear them in a quiet room. Case fans are louder.

If you ask me its well worth the money.

Cons: Utterly huge!
Kind of expensive even on my budget.

Other Thoughts: My build components:
Rosewill Blackhawk ATX Mid-Tower Case
ASUS P9Z77-V PRO M/B
Intel Core i5 3570K CPU
Noctua NH-C14 CPU Cooler
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-bit Video Card
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600
Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD
Corsair TX650M 650W ATX12V PSU

Pros: nice setup. easy instructions. came with a big tube of their thermal compound. about twice the size of arctic silver. comes with lots of extra case fan to mobo connectors.

Cons: no matter what way you have it turned, you will lose a ram slot with both fans on.

Other Thoughts: intel i7 3770k OC @ 4.5ghz
g skill trident x series 8gb ddr3 2400 mhz
ASUS P8Z77-V PRO
Noctua NH-C14
CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W
Thermaltake Armor Series VA8003BWS Black Full Tower Case w/ 25CM Fan
SAMSUNG 840 Pro 128gb

Pros: This is the best CPU cooler I have used after 14 builds.
It is truely silent using Zaman Fanmate on low and cools my Core i3 to room temperature. Keeps RAM and motherboard cool too. using on home built case with two 140mm Noctua intake fans at bottom and no top fans, top of case is modder's mesh for exhaust.

Cons: No cons

Pros: It seems to keep a Phenom II x6 1045T (95W, not o/c'd) fairly cool when the CP load is about 50%. Not cold (which I expected) but cool according to CPID HW Mon .

It comes with 2 different speed- and noise-reducing resistor options. I chose to leave them out and run at full speed.

It's easier to install than it seems: just don't fit the fans til after the frame is in place and dogged down. The wire bails make clamping and unclamping the fans to/from the fins very straightforward

Cons: From hard-won experience, I prefer to keep everything in the case not merely cool but *cold*, if I can. I thought that on humid days this fan should begin to cause frost to form, but not so. That puzzles me and I wonder whether there's less to these oversize sinks and fans than meets the eye. I'll probably experiment when I get some time, unless someone else beats me to it.

I'm not sure whether this is a real con: it *did* fit in my huge server/workstation case with 1.0 inch to spare, and it *did* clear my Gskill memory with 2-3mm to spare, BUT it was a near-run thing as you can tell from those numbers.

Other Thoughts: It doesn't seem to matter whether the fans blow away from the CP (logical: move heat the way it wants to go anyway) or at the CP (their unexplained recommendation). If you choose to have it blow away from the chip, you'll have to re-site the bails to the other edge and rotate them 90 degrees, which is easier to do than to think about.

I used their paste (supplied) but I suspect it might be less effective than it should be. I believe I'm going to remove it and reinstall with Arctic Silver.

The fan frames are a little different, but the heatsink part appears to be a near-clone of the less-expensive Phanteks PH-TC14CS --- even the "C14" in the designator is the same, fwtw.

Pros: After almost a year of owning this, I still love it. It is exceptionally quiet and can cool so well.

I have an i5-2500k overclocked to 5.0GHz with this and the temps only reach high 80's after about 2 hours in Prime 95.

I seriously cannot recommend this enough. I didn't think about getting a proper case (it didn't have a side vent) but this thing still manages to cool the CPU amazingly

Cons: It's large and difficult to work with once installed. Put this monster in last, after all the cable management.

Also, make sure your RAM fits. Ripjaws fit fine for me (and I'm using an ASRock Extreme 3 Gen 3 mobo)

Other Thoughts: I have it set up to pull air towards the CPU. Not sure if it would yield better temps to reverse this...

Pros: Everything I love, love, love this heatsink I've owned it over a year now and it's still my favorite. Like the title says it performs like it look's. temps are cool it stays cool even when over clocked plus if you have a windowed case it makes for a nice look also it's very quite.

Cons: It's a little on the big size make sure before purchasing that you can clear the dim slots.

Pros: Very nice cooler. With a 3770k oc'd at 4.5 GHz, it idles in the mid 30s, maxed in the low 70s on full load. With 140mm fans blowing down on the motherboard, it effectively cools off your VRM, RAM, and anything else around the CPU socket you might have.

Cons: With the bottom fan attached, the clearance is pretty low, restricting the height of RAM heat spreaders you have. With this cooler, it's best to have low profile RAM. Fan color is off-setting, but what can you do. It's Noctua. They may have flesh colored fans but they work, quietly.

Other Thoughts: Would recommend for any kind of build

Pros: Works better than the majority of liquid cooling solutions. Used on my OC'ed 2500K, which is stable and has no heat issues in a house with no AC, even on days with outside temps in the triple digits. Would buy for any future build.

Cons: Cost. Ugly as sin.

Other Thoughts: If you care what the inside of the case looks like, skip it. If you care about performance and are leery of liquid cooling, this is the one to get. Best purchase I ever made for any rig I've owned.

Pros: Cool, quiet, very nice instructions and even came with a sweet screwdriver that is WAY better than the screwdriver I was using before for PC work.

Cons: A little expensive but hardly a con because its worth the money. Very big. You really can't even get an idea of how big it really is until you hold it in your hands.

Other Thoughts: This cooler is amazing. Brought my idle temps down from ~40C to ~19C and load temps from 60-70C to 25C. Was able to clock my 3.1 GHz bulldozer up to 4.2 GHz without a problem and temps still don't go over 35C running prime95 for hours.

I was worried I might have to take the bottom fan off to get clearance over my RAM heatspreaders but the bottom fan sits almost exactly ontop of them (less than 2mm of clearance) so I'm pretty happy about that. The fan also overlaps all the heatspreaders at least a little bit helping to cool the RAM too. Would recommend this cooler to anyone, especially if you are looking to overclock. Load temps dropped almost 40C even with a 1.1 GHz overclock.