Noctua NH-U12P SE2 For 8700k - Cooling - Linus Tech Tips

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I will Not be Overclocking ATM Will this be good for normal use like gaming since i could not find any benchmarks with modern systems and i cant find its TDP

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• Reece1999

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I might be wrong, but I don't even think that cooler will work with your motherboards socket type 

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Don't worry actually, Amazon's specs where wrong, it says diffrent on the noctua site, and yh that should be sufficient for now 

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• Jurrunio

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It's fine for a CPU running at stock.

3 minutes ago, Reece1999 said:

Don't worry actually, Amazon's specs where wrong, it says diffrent on the noctua site, and yh that should be sufficient for now 

se2 simply means it comes with more accessories, which became standard equipment on later products from Noctua.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard:Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD(KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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10 hours ago, Reece1999 said:

Don't worry actually, Amazon's specs where wrong, it says diffrent on the noctua site, and yh that should be sufficient for now 

And if it woulnd't come with correct mounting kit, Noctua has support promise to provide it. Unless its for workstation motherboard.

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• EsaT

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Performance wise it's good, but fan likely protrudes into space of one memory slot.

Noctua made its successor NH-U12S much slimmer to guarantee clearence for memory slots.

(fin spacing become quite dense)

Though of course if you already have it in current PC, thne using it is good way to save some money.

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On 7/22/2018 at 1:04 AM, Jurrunio said:

se2 simply means it comes with more accessories, which became standard equipment on later products from Noctua.

The SE2 also comes with an additional fan. 

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