🎛️ Noctua NH-L9x65 SE-AM4, High-Quality Low-Profile CPU Cooler with 92mm Fan for AMD AM4 (Brown) Review

I have a Ryzen 5 1600X in a Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini-ITX case. That fits with some leeway for a normal ATX power supply. With this setting, the cooling is suitable for standard speeds (idle at 45°C, full load at 75°C). The quality of the cooler is excellent, but a larger cooler for this processor is better if you have the space. It replaces the Cooler Master 120 AIO water cooling system, which had pump damage after a year. Noctua is about 10 degrees hotter overall.

Noctua has been making coolers for a long time and reviews about them are always very positive and when you need a cooler it won't interfere with anything else on your motherboard, With this cooler you can you can't go wrong. Installation was as easy and hassle free as can be, and replacing the stock cooler dropped my CPU temp by 15 degrees Fahrenheit. It's ugly and doesn't have RGB lighting, but it absolutely works. Highly recommended. Update The fan on this cooler has failed in less than 8…

Built a PC for a friend in a medium/small form factor case with a Ryzen 3600 in the Hope the cooling would be good with minimal noise. I have years of experience building PCs. Unfortunately, the fan is too loud under full load, temperatures quickly reach 75°C. I can't reduce the fan speed as it would cause thermal throttling and performance degradation at around 80C. Don't even think about applying this to processors with a stronger core. I've tried remounting/reapplying the thermal paste twice

I'm using a Ryzen 1700X for cooling. It works. but for this purpose I would not recommend it. I applied some MX4 thermal paste to help with thermal effects, but it still jumps into the 70s during intense gaming or video playback. On a lower wattage processor I could see it running great but I don't think it matches what I have set up in my mini-ITX case with a GTX 1080.

It should have been good for 65W TDP processors, so I got it for the new Ryzen 5 5600x. However, it fails to keep the CPU cool when overclocked to 4.6GHz auto-turbo mode. Temperatures are reaching the 90C limit. I need to turn off auto gain and only run on the 3.7GHz base frequency. A few months after I received it, Noctua finally added this processor to its compatibility list citing very limited acceleration, but it was too late for me.

I bought one of these for my Silverstone rvz02 (yes it fits perfectly) for Ryzen 1800x. Since then, the processor has been running great at 32C in tropical weather. Installation is easy and it can be used in two different orientations, which was very handy for the small space I was dealing with. I am very satisfied with this product.

My Ryzen 5 5600X came with an AMD Wraith Stealth cooler. I also have a mini-ATX case which limits the size of the CPU heatsink. The idle temperatures of the Wraith Stealth were typically 50°C. During 3D gaming, the temperature can reach 68-75°C. Under heavy loads, 85°C wasn't unexpected (although the CPU starts to throttle itself). With this cooler and the supplied thermal paste from the Noctua brand, we can speak of minor temperature changes in idle mode. When gaming in 3D I typically see…

Can't rate it below 5 stars as the build quality is fantastic as with all Noctua products. However, I cannot recommend this cooler for the Loque Ghost S1. The fan attached to the side panel is suitable, but quite loud under load. Great cooler but not with Ghost.

The description doesn't say anything about the advertised TDP, same as the Noctua website. After trying to figure out why my new build sounds like a blow dryer, I realized that this cooler should really only be used for 45W TDP CPUs. My Ryzen 3700x has a TDP of 65W and will easily overwhelm the cooler, forcing it to go to 100%. It keeps temperatures in check at around 72 degrees (4.2-4.3 GHz), albeit at the expense of the cooler, which is the noisiest part of the system. I return this for the…