A pleasure indeed it is for PCWizKid to have the opportunity to review a Noctua product which is know for their quality PC cooling products. Specifically we take a close look at their flag ship CPU Cooler the NH-D14. At first when we saw the NH-D14 in our hands one would think we got small turbine jet engine. Weighing at 900 grams this big boy is not kidding around and means business. Aimed at the true enthusiast and hard core PC Gamer this CPU Cooler's promises to cool down more than your average cpu cooler . It combines six heatpipes in a dual radiator design with an NF-P14/NF-P12 dual fan configuration, the NH-D14 is built for ultimate quiet cooling performance. Top it off with a tube of Noctua’s award-winning NT-H1 thermal compound paste as well as the new SecuFirm2™ multi-socket mounting system for your favorite CPU and your good to go!
PCWizKid's Test System
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (c3 Revision) 125 Watt overclocked at 4Ghz Gigabyte MA790XT UD5P AM3 Motherboard Diamond ATI Radeon HD5850 OCZ AMD Black Edition 4GB DDR3 Memory Tuniq Ripper 1000 Watt Power Supply Cooler Master Scout Mid tower Case Patriot 65GB SSD and Western Digital 500GB SATA II Hard Drives Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit Room Temperature 20C (+/- 1C) tested with the mid tower case closed
We must say that the Noctua NH-D14 is designed the way it is for a reason! It works! This is perfect example in which we can say size does matter! PCWizKid was impressed and toke the NH-D14 to the next level with a fully overclocked system in a mid tower case. Pushing the NH-D14 to the limits it demonstrated and handled well our test system which has all the latest components. The only thing to worry about would be installing memory that was really tall with high heat spreaders. In our case the high end memory we used was low profile and worked excellent with the cooler. Despite the intimidating size of the NH-D14 it was not difficult to install and was not a problem in our system. Another factor that contributes to the results we got is that the NH-D14 has the signature NH-P12 and NH-P14 fans which are premium high quality fans which assist in the overall goal on getting things cool. A perfect combination which gives perfect results. This is the next best thing to liquid cpu cooling and PCWizKid recommends this for any PC enthusiast.
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A pleasure indeed it is for PCWizKid to have the opportunity to review a Noctua product which is know for their quality PC cooling products. Specifically we take a close look at their flag ship CPU Cooler the NH-D14. At first when we saw the 
