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big read, but very good testing.  http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Flab501.ro%2Fracire%2Fstudiu-privind-arhitectura-twin-tower-noctua-nh-d14-asus-triton-88-prolimatech-megashadow-si-thermalright-ifx-14&sl=auto&tl=en

Originally posted by DST4ME Do I really have to read that to know Noctua d14 is king?

  yes

Yikes 64 pages, what a read. But what a read indeed, very informative. That Noctua D14 is a monster.

What Noctua does Digital Storm use? The U12P SE2? And how does it hold up to the bigger D14?

We're looking into carrying the d14 soon.

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/noctua_nhd14/4.htm

Edited by AndydViking - 03 Feb 2010 at 7:32pm

Frosty tech has some here http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2206&page=5

Edited by AndydViking - 04 Feb 2010 at 2:43am

yes, they have some extremely powerful fans, gives a great picture as to the performance gain possible. anyone doing much overclocking, first thing they do is toss the stock fan. lol

Where is there to test exactly? It has half the cooling area and half the fans.

A quick Google search and 20 minutes of reading various reviews which all say basically the same thing tells me it is a value cooler. It isn't too bad of a value cooler either, offering decent cooling for the price, but performance wise it is no where near the quality of a big bad boy like the Noctua D14.

Also some random downsides about it. It has the ability to mount a second fan but you would have to buy said fan, which hurts its value niche. The stock fan is loud because it relies on a higher 2000rpm setting for most of its cooling performance. A better quieter fan replacement would hurt its value. The fact that it relies on a high rpm fan setting for its cooling performance should speak volumes, it is working harder not better, and this greatly limits its peak cooling ability because you can only raise fan rpms so high. There are also issues with the mounting system being difficult and prone to problems.

This seems like a case of you get what you pay for.

you do realize that the test I posted has the Prolimatech in the review? lol

Guys seriously, I don't think me or justin would even piss on some of these parts that some of these sites call the next best thing.

don't believe every review you see, as justin pointed out, details matter.

if you take a mustang and put it on the road agains a car that is a tad bit slower but handles better, then have them do a race for quarter mile, then the mustang wins, and if you want to go around saying mustang is king you can, however you will be very disappointed as soon as you are on a road with turns and twists, you will find out your king is not much of a king at all.

in short, unless you know every aspect of how a proper test should be done, so that you can tell when a site is missing some angles, then don't believe every review you read, instead listen to people like me and justin and the complete reviews we show you.

For me, if I have to choose blindly, I would choose justin over any website.

sure he makes the biggest deal about the tiniest little gains but thats because he is a benchmarker so tiniest things are a big deal to him, he just forgets from time to time that everybody is not looking at that way, but every time he has talked about a topic he has been on point, which more then I can say for these websites and their reviews.

in short, forget hardwarecanucks, this is a perfect example of why, they just told you the wrong cooler is king.

me nor justin work for Noctua and have nothing to gain by saying its the best. We do so, so that others that are trying to find the real answer in this sea of bs they call internet, can do easily.

why do you think we donate our time helping so many people on this forum, we just want to help clear up the bs.

emmsn no, sorry, its not a matter of opinion, the whole point of a proper test is to get rid of the bs opinion and give facts.

the data you need and both me and justin are pointing to are the data from his link he posted which is a million times more detailed test then the one you posted.

opinion is what me and you think is the best, fact is when a proper test shows which is best, and then when me and justin point out the test results, that is not our opinion we are providing, its the facts from the proper, creditable test.

opinions are dime a dozen, who cares about them.

numbers speak for themselves and they say that Noctua cools better then Prolimatech Megahalem, thats a fact.

you wanna call the Prolimatech Megahalem king based on a test that does not even include Noctua, and I'm the one that is all talk and no data?

Edited by DST4ME - 04 Feb 2010 at 6:27pm

ITs tough for me, I have to check the testing methods first and see what the settings are first.

I like guru3d a lot tho, but IMHO nobody is perfect.

Edited by DST4ME - 04 Feb 2010 at 6:44pm

they are the worst, I was on their forums for 2 years, finally I left cause I got tired of all the bs that got passed around and nobody did anything about it.

are you guys not seeing the link justin posted? that is a good test.