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Having reviewed pretty much every single CPU cooler released by Noctua to date (at least for the consumer market) means that I know all too well that their products deliver on 3 things, cooling efficiency, build quality and noise levels. Now the NH-D12L may not be their highest performance model but it’s meant to deliver almost excellent cooling efficiency to compact mATX and mITX systems (even some rackmounts) and well, it does just that. Of course, even with a height of just 145mm the NH-D12L might still be too tall for some cases so I do recommend double checking before you finalize your purchase. Performance and size aside the NH-D12L delivers very good noise level results, even with two NF-A12x25r fans in push and pull configuration. Just like with every other Noctua CPU cooler mounting the NH-D12L onto your motherboard is very easy, attach the two brackets according to the socket, remove the NF-A12x25r fan from the cooler and then tight the screws onto the two brackets, that’s it.
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