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unboxing experience, build quality, performance

- Noctua Brand assures quality - More heat sink and better fans than the prior model - Compare to AIO cooler, no water or other moving parts besides fans - Easy installation (I put in on AM4)

Nice quality display Perfect size Easy to plug in Magnetic

Others have mentioned this, but this is clearly a device with a ton of care put into making it great. It's so easy to install, so quiet, and keeps things very cool (even the Core i7 6700K I'm using that is technically above its heat specifications). Seems like classic German over-engineering! :) Also, the packaging and instructions that come with it now set my gold standard for how all my tech should come. Very clear, very simple, and everything fits together neatly and precisely. The labels on the bags in the box, and on the 3 instruction packs make figuring out which parts / instructions are for which socket type a brainless activity. I've never bought a Noctua HSF before, but they will be my top choice next time I need one. This company cares about good, easy to use products.

Computer fans have a range of deployments: CPU-fan, exhaust fan, radiator fans, intake versus exhaust. The "community" of enthusiasts is divided into camps of cooling: heatpipe/air-cooling, AiO "liquid" cooling, and custom-water-cooling. Of course, you have your exotics, like the builders of bong and Volenti coolers. Across all these preferences there is a prevailing aversion to noise. Yet, it all boils down to one thing: heatpipes are a form of water-cooling, while water-cooling requires airflow. And the more airflow, the greater the prospects of squeezing that last Celsius reduction out of the cooling strategy. Some folks dare to deploy the Gentle Typhoon AP-30 PWM fan in their strategy. Not a very widespread or popular choice. Unless you acoustically muffle the fan -- which is possible and feasible -- the range from 2,800 RPM to 4,200 RPM is also a range of increasing noise. This Noctua iPPC fan is a good compromise. It comes close to 3,000 RPM; the airflow rating is somewhere between 100 and 110 CFM. It is an exceedingly quiet fan for that sort of performance. The good fans these days also address the problem of vibration transmitted to case-metal: they have rubber pads in the corners around the mounting hole. The iPPC is built this way.

-Quiet -Quality -Mounts to almost anything and has an offset for AM5 -Will keep a 12900K at 180 watts under 85°C -Will keep a 9700X at 140 watts under 90°C -Will keep a 11900K at 150 watts under 65°C

Resealable packaging to store tube.

- Delivered abit early than expected.