Noctua NH-U12P

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As you’ve seen on the previous page, the Noctua NH-U12P is a great performer and this isn’t just down to the improved fan that the company has designed. Along with better performance, you also get absolutely everything you would expect – better compatibility, better corrosion resistance, premium thermal paste, the improved fan, extra clips for another fan, U.L.N.A. and even tools to install it.

Top that with a cherry flavoured warranty of six years, and I literally cannot think of anything else you'd need from a heatsink, Noctua has every base covered.

If you have an uncompromising fetish for silence, then there's no other choice: you have to get the Noctua, or, at least its £15 fan. After all given that there are many heatpiped heatsinks already on the market you could just throw the NH-P12 120mm fan on any one of these for a similar effect.

At £15 a pop, the NH-P12 is the Crème de la Crème of fans and an investment and a half on top of that heatsink purchase. And even if you can match the Noctua's 19dB, like the Zerotherm Nirvana NV120 at its lowest setting, there's still a performance difference in favour of the Noctua.

There's never been a truer time to cite the old "you get what you pay for" cliché – that little bit of extra performance always costs just that much more, it's the same situation with the Thermalright, and to us it's an investment worth making.

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