Noctua NH-C12P SE14
Jul 27th, 2010 | By JaredThe following system was installed and used to gather temperatures:
CPU: Intel E8400
MB: Biostar TPower I45
RAM: G.Skill PI Black PC6400
Video Card: HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo
PSU: Ultra X3 1000W
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB – SATA
DVD-Rom: Lite-On 18x DVD Burner – SATA
Case: Cooler Master HAF932
OS: Microsoft Windows 7
Ambient Temperature: 22-24C
Comparison Coolers:
Noctua NH-C12P SE14
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
Noctua NH-D14
For idle temperatures, the system was allowed to stand at idle for 3 hours before temperatures were taken. To achieve load temps, two instances of Orthos blend were run for three hours and the average peak temperature was recorded. Voltage readings were taken from the BIOS and temperature readings were taken using Everest Ultimate.
First up was to see how the NH-C12P SE14 performs with the CPU at stock.
At stock settings the NH-C12P SE12 just edges out the Hyper 212 Plus and falls behind the much larger dual fanned NH-D14, which is expected.
Next I upped the voltage a little to 1.33v to see how the NH-C12P SE14 fares with a little more heat.
Under overclocked settings we see nearly mirrored results as the NH-C12P SE 14 falls 3 degrees behind the NH-D14 and the one degree ahead of the Hyper 212 Plus.
All testing was done without using either of the low noise adapters (LNA or ULNA) and to be quite honest it was quiet even running at full speed.