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Noctua quality is great, no doubt about that. I'm not sure I want this cooler, but I do want the square version of the G2 fans coming in September for my cases! Thumbs up.
Great review, thank you. I agree with the test orientation from the side. You buy a cooler like this because the PC is sitting on your desk, next to your ears. So for their attention to details with noise.
Good review 👍I will be getting one for sure. I wish they would make a version with black fans and aluminium heatsink rather than all black chromax version
Love Noctua and have many of their coolers and fans, had the regular nhd15 but sold that with a PC I built to play with and later sold, now using the nhd15 chromax black that I bought open box for around 70$ in my country (it's sold new in store for around 150$), also got a couple of nhd12, 1 in my moms PC and 1 in my second PC, very happy with all the coolers. Also got many Noctua fans including 2 of their industrial 3000rpm fans but I was pretty disappointed with them as there are better performing and quieter fans at lower price, I don't mind paying the Noctua premium as long as I get what paid for but IMO those fans don't worth the $$, got be Quiet and Arctic fans that cost me much less and perform better at lower RPM and much more quiet. Unfortunately I feel the same about the new nhd15g2, it's just not worth the price, you can get 3-4 cheaper coolers that perform close enough or 1 good AIO or 2 ok AIOs so I can't justify that much of a Noctua premium, in my country it will cost over 200$ and I bought a liquid freezer II 420 open box for 100$ so... As mentioned before I love Noctua and willing to pay some amount of premium for their products but not this much and not for this kind of performance.
Really interesting about the orientation thing. Makes me wonder what noise levels are at other orientations. Ironically, this sounds slightly like a downside of a hemi-anechoic chamber measurement: in real life, noise reflects all over the place, and so directionality of noise will matter less; i.e. if noise is directional, then you'll hear it even from a different direction. But within an anechoic chamber, you're not getting that noise "aggregation" for free, so even though measurements may be much more repeatable and precise, they're slightly less representative of real-world applications. Probably a good trade-off, but I wonder now what other cooler's noise at different angles would have been like. Another thing that's springs to mind now is that such coolers are of course mounted in a case in the real world, not an open test-bench. I suspect that given the kind of air-flow dynamics that seem to matter here, the directionality of the noise will be affect by a real-world the case. But would it be even worse for G2, or better? who knows...
@@HardwareBusters Of course, that's necessary. But you understand the point of how directionality is a confounder from the perspective of predicting noise levels in an actual application? It's a form of systemic error that's hard to judge or correct for, precisely because the same conditions apply to other tests yet we now have learned noise directionality is not always the same between coolers. I don't mean to be overly critical here - you're the only review outlet I found that even noticed this, and that's not by coincidence ;-). I'm just trying to understand the limits of the testing procedure. As a potential buyer- thanks for the diligence, because it's definitely convinced me to hold off on any purchases until it's clearer how impactful this is in practice, or until some fix arrives.
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The most (probably the only proper one) complete review of the most anticipated air cooler! Thumbs up!
One of the best reviews seen, for competence and professionalism. Hats off to you sir
Noctua quality is great, no doubt about that. I'm not sure I want this cooler, but I do want the square version of the G2 fans coming in September for my cases! Thumbs up.
Great review, thank you. I agree with the test orientation from the side. You buy a cooler like this because the PC is sitting on your desk, next to your ears. So for their attention to details with noise.
Good review 👍I will be getting one for sure. I wish they would make a version with black fans and aluminium heatsink rather than all black chromax version
Much looking forward to the comparison to the TR Phantom Spirit 120SE and the ID- Cooling a720.
TR promised that they will send all of their high-end coolers for testing. Let's see.
@@HardwareBusters Good news, indeed.
Love Noctua and have many of their coolers and fans, had the regular nhd15 but sold that with a PC I built to play with and later sold, now using the nhd15 chromax black that I bought open box for around 70$ in my country (it's sold new in store for around 150$), also got a couple of nhd12, 1 in my moms PC and 1 in my second PC, very happy with all the coolers.
Also got many Noctua fans including 2 of their industrial 3000rpm fans but I was pretty disappointed with them as there are better performing and quieter fans at lower price, I don't mind paying the Noctua premium as long as I get what paid for but IMO those fans don't worth the $$, got be Quiet and Arctic fans that cost me much less and perform better at lower RPM and much more quiet.
Unfortunately I feel the same about the new nhd15g2, it's just not worth the price, you can get 3-4 cheaper coolers that perform close enough or 1 good AIO or 2 ok AIOs so I can't justify that much of a Noctua premium, in my country it will cost over 200$ and I bought a liquid freezer II 420 open box for 100$ so...
As mentioned before I love Noctua and willing to pay some amount of premium for their products but not this much and not for this kind of performance.
Great, thank you !!!
i will buy the black d15, older model. lol... i hate the noise from G2. for me Noctua dropped the ball!.
Thats awesome!
Really interesting about the orientation thing. Makes me wonder what noise levels are at other orientations. Ironically, this sounds slightly like a downside of a hemi-anechoic chamber measurement: in real life, noise reflects all over the place, and so directionality of noise will matter less; i.e. if noise is directional, then you'll hear it even from a different direction. But within an anechoic chamber, you're not getting that noise "aggregation" for free, so even though measurements may be much more repeatable and precise, they're slightly less representative of real-world applications. Probably a good trade-off, but I wonder now what other cooler's noise at different angles would have been like. Another thing that's springs to mind now is that such coolers are of course mounted in a case in the real world, not an open test-bench. I suspect that given the kind of air-flow dynamics that seem to matter here, the directionality of the noise will be affect by a real-world the case. But would it be even worse for G2, or better? who knows...
you test all products under the same conditions, to have comparable results.
@@HardwareBusters Of course, that's necessary. But you understand the point of how directionality is a confounder from the perspective of predicting noise levels in an actual application? It's a form of systemic error that's hard to judge or correct for, precisely because the same conditions apply to other tests yet we now have learned noise directionality is not always the same between coolers.
I don't mean to be overly critical here - you're the only review outlet I found that even noticed this, and that's not by coincidence ;-). I'm just trying to understand the limits of the testing procedure. As a potential buyer- thanks for the diligence, because it's definitely convinced me to hold off on any purchases until it's clearer how impactful this is in practice, or until some fix arrives.
What do we Dutch folks have anything to do with the rattle?
ha ha I just found this machine gun during google search, having this name, so I though to use it :)
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ppl is buying this cooler like crazy... it's not about the price but the quality.
Ppl is buying?
not really...noise is higher than de old model. i hate the pitch... is a downgrade for many of us.
@benegesserit9838 Now do the cooling
a product for whales and consoomers.