
If you’re interested in getting one of the most powerful air coolers on the market that provide silent utilization, astonishing quality and 100% compatibility with the rest of the build components, there’s almost no competitor to the NH-U12A if you can afford the $100 price tag. Their newest NF-A12x25 fans are most likely responsible for this great result. While the NH-D15 is a much larger tower cooler which should provide a decent performance gap between the two with its 2 x 140mm, the Noctua NH-U12A is equal in performance and noise levels in a broad range of performance testing, including overclocking. The advantage of the NH-U12A over the flagship NH-D15 is the size difference. They are great at revising and evolving every one of their cooling solutions and in this case, the U12A is an evolution of the U12S that brings a pair of the newly designed NF-A12x25 fans that support a fan speed range of 450 – 2000 RPM and a max airflow of 60 CFM.

Noctua’s reputation is based on amazing performance, exceptional quality and very silent utilization, as they stand out as one of the premium PC cooling manufacturers. This air cooler, the NH-U12A, is one of Noctua’s latest products and it’s a single tower configuration that looks almost identical to their popular NH-U12S model but with few. So if you find a CPU cooler that is in your budget and that you really like then chances are big that you’ll be able to get it for other CPUs such as the Ryzen 9 5900X or 5950X thanks to the similar TDP of these processors. Today we will be focusing on the 8 core Ryzen 7 5800X CPU with a TDP of 105W our cooler choices also won’t be limited to just the 5800X because of the similar TDPs of Ryzen 5900X and 5950X. The whole Ryzen 5000 series with the exception of the 6 core Ryzen 5 5600X which still has an included cooler, now needs an aftermarket cooling option.



The included cooler was a guarantee that you could get your system up and running at once without the need to factor in the price of a third party cooler. This is a shame since almost all of the Ryzen 3000 CPUs came with a suitable included cooler that could be used daily at specification clocks and could be kept as a backup in case you upgraded to a much better CPU cooler. With AMD launching the new Ryzen 5000 series last week, we came to the realization that AMD is not going to include stock coolers with most of their new CPUs.
