Rampage Extreme with Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850: Is the NH D14 or it does not fit?

Rampage Extreme with Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850: Is the NH D14 or it does not fit?

Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler for Intel socket LGA1366, LGA1156, LGA1155, LGA1150, LGA775, AM2, AM2 +, AM3, AM3 +, FM1, FM2 (Personal Computers)

Customer Review

Equal first:

I have the Noctua NH-D14 is not bought at Amazon, but a week ago at my local dealer around the corner, because I needed it immediately / wanted, and he was to have there at the same price. This does not change the radiator itself. He has since been in operation 24/7.

But what was wanted and what for?

My main problem in finding a suitable cooler was to find out if he would fit actually Extreme on the Asus Rampage almost stale (LGA 775 socket). Multi-functional and multi-compatible, it should be, so in addition to fit all modern sockets, so that he remains otherwise usable. Quietly, he should be at the highest possible cooling capacity, the criterion cooling performance was even more important, of course, as a mere whisper. Ergo fell because of their high cooling performance all Doppelradiator- cooler designs with as large, say, 140s fans that can turn more slowly and thus quieter accordingly the shortlist. Leader was (and stayed to the end) of the Noctua NH-D14.

How big is it really? He really fits Extreme on a 775 Rampage?

The dimensions of most CPU twin tower Cooler / Doppelradiator- coolers can be a bit intimidating. And if it does not fit, which trader takes him back without hesitation to return money? Conrad in Frankfurt a. M. is not in any case, the offer instead of a 5 year valid. So I wanted to be sure call for buy him here, because after FernAbsG can be (wrongly) rear handle purchases much trouble, you have to then just also want to do the work of resending. My dealer around the corner on the other hand would have the NH-D14 is not only exchanged against the next best, he would have withdrawn him without hesitation against the purchase price refund again (assuming: intact, untouched bottom panel). But he assured me that the cooler would fit very well.

Noctua is also on its website as one of the few high-end manufacturers, as far as I was (not) seen with other eligible manufacturers, highly detailed compatibility lists. One can therefore advance under the heading Support time pull the compatibility lists for advice, ordered both by product, motherboard and socket. Knowing, for example. The Noctua his choice, one can see easily, how boards fit and to choose the best of them, one knows the base of his choice, can you all matching Noctua find including all manufacturers and their boards, etc., etc.. Unprecedented Support from Noctua. Moreover, the manufacturers are additional tips and hints to help avoid wrong purchases and thus the customer disappointments:

"The NH-D14 is a large cooler, which rises on most motherboards on the first RAM banks. The cooler offers sufficient clearance for memory modules in standard size. The use of modules with a height of about 44 mm is not possible. Corsair dominator DDR3 modules can be used when the upper heatsink is removed. " (Noctua.at)

Now that the manufacturer's maximum even when Noctua NH-D14 and the Rampage Extreme was listed, so I decided to risk it, despite the whole Vermesserei within the Thermaltake- Kandalf- housing, in which it should be installed, and all that is was already on the motherboard, including the passive heatsinks, which are mounted on a Rampage Extreme from home, let me doubt until the very end about whether the cooler would actually fit more in between. The cooler dimensions and the tape said: No ... or maybe ... maybe ... no. To the mass at various online shops or on the part of self-proclaimed hardware tester was certainly not a right relied on, they went here and there like from each other, so better looked at Noctua itself, and there it goes like this:

Height (without fan) 160 mm
Width (without fan) 140 mm
Depth (without fan) 130 mm

Height (with fan) 160 mm
Width (with fan) 140 mm
Depth (with fan) 158 mm

Weight (without fan) 900 g

Weight (with fan) 1070/1240 * g

* With 2 fans

And it's true striking.

He is thus numerically although heavier than 'ne bag of sugar, but it feels lighter. Reweighed I did not. ;)

It fits or not?

Try went here again in the eating, and he fits! Knapp, but it fits. It actually fits on a Rampage Extreme in a Thermaltake Kandalf Big Tower. He stands with a height of 16 cm twin tower typically up close to the housing wall, almost too tightly, but the lid is because even just now to. Basically disturb the side, put me out of order, 200mm fan in Kandalf- housing, yet the lid went on. With a little pressure. On the board information from Noctua itself is certainly definitely rely on.

Because of their heavy weight, this type cooler can be securely mounted with a backplate on the mainboard. So nothing there with Pushpin- plastic fuss and good. That's more what toy fan.

The sophisticated multi-compatible, functional, almost foolproof explained and easy-to-use mounting system Noctua "scolds" to SecuFirm2.

Care before the main board assembly:

The board has to be removed (as in Kandalf), for absolutely necessary mounting the backplate only (or again) in enclosures, the rear do not allow access to an already installed motherboard more. For home builders, so the stand just before installing the boards:

Not without the radiator, at least not without installing the backplate! Otherwise: see ... (or back). If the backplate but once installed, allows the cooler later remove from above without removing the boards again, but only so that you can get a CPU later retrofit / replace, without having to re-divide the whole PC. Intelligent mounting system, easy basically. So do not worry.

The cooler comes with two separate, illustrated manuals for both the Intel and AMD the fraction.

The same applies to the mounting accessories that are packaged also neatly separated into Intel and AMD accessories. So you can what a does not need to be interested in, simply put aside and ignore intentionally. Very comfortable. No parts confusion, no guesswork, what should be what and where. The instructions are in the shipping version in English, but also illustrated. For those who need it in German (or in various other languages), visit the respective instructions translated into the manufacturer's website.

Here now stood the link, but was removed.

What is needed for installation, is also fully provided by Noctua, in addition to the premierten Noctua- thermal paste and much more, the package also comes including a sufficiently long Phillips screwdriver. What is the? This should also be mentioned:

If the backplate once mounted (works without any tools with knurled nuts), the Board could immediately in's housing. Empfehlenswerter, however, whether the larger Bewegunsgfreiheit outside a housing, the radiator only to mount completely finished.

For final assembly, but the average radiator now has to be removed, because you can only so the underlying, reached by springs against overspeeding secured Phillips screws with this specifically included screwdriver. Extra tool has the homebrewers thus far therefore theoretically not have in stock, although a clever screwdriver with round handle and appropriate length provides significantly better services. So be it. It must be exercised in order to overcome the spring resistance of the screws until the thread finally pack unfortunately associated pressure. This better not hang around on the upper slats of radiators or hold onto it. This could readily be bent or otherwise damaged. Better only exercise pressure on the outstanding top of the slats minds of heatpipes, if necessary.

Before removing the central fan, which is fixed with two brackets on the radiator, which can be solved easily, it is recommended to easily get the fan later exactly centrally placed between the two radiators to mark visible with a Edding those slats where previously sat the clip. Otherwise, enjoy fiddling until it is again exactly in the middle (this would certainly Noctua themselves can work your way with markings).

Mounting direction is the Rampage Extreme in a Kandalf- housing with overhead power supply typically horizontally / horizontally on the board, so the front 120mm fans towards the RAM benches and exhaust at the back. Not straight up or down! The latter may in enclosures with vertical airflow and therefore its exhaust upwards necessary or the best solution. In power supplies, which are now better installed in the optimum case the housing base and from there the cold air from the bottom (!) To suck in's housing upward advisable to support the power supply mounted vertically with exhaust air through the housing cover, supported there by fans in roof. But then, of course, were no fans in the front and no longer in the rear wall! Such horizontally working fan would swirl a vertical airflow and make canceled out.

In this case, the airflow is thus horizontally (from front to back), in a typical vacuum housing thus more output than input fans. The power supply is housed in a Thermaltake- Kandalf- Tower housing under roof with rear exhaust. In the front panel sits a suction fan. So Accordingly, the mounting of the cooler under the PSU and horizontally behind the RAM banks with rear exhaust!

The rear radiator of the radiator adjoins this in the Kandalf- housing directly to the current already in the rear 120mm fans. This therefore makes it very practical to perfect finish throughout the fan sequence, because there now run in almost perfect series of 120 fans of Noctua's front, just behind the RAM banks, followed by its middle, big fan 140s and finally again 120mm fans, which the housing in the rear wall, and suck so united, yet quiet, the warm air from the RAM banks from through the front radiator, then drag the actual heat of the CPU via the 6 heatpipes only from the front, then directly through the rear radiator through it and finally carry everything together most efficiently to the rear of the chassis.

How effective?

Maximum. For detail-engineer I try for more accurate comparability as much data as immediately available indicate others prefer to read over it:

What the NH-DH14 cools in this case and how good or bad?

The board sits a Extreme to be cooled Intel Core2 QX6850 quad core, 64-bit, 3.0GHz, stable overclocked up to 3.7 GHz, with free multiplier, FSB 333 MHz (x4) and 0.8 to 1.5 V operating voltage. The QX6850 is in III. Quarter of this year 7 years at Intel. My other hand I have "only" been around 5 years use. Without any incidents. The QX6850 can / may be known to be very very "warm", therefore, and because of its free multiplier and other gimmicks, he is also very good for overclocking. Holding out good stuff. The main concern of Asus Rampage Extreme ROG is: Overclocking for the highest utilization. All this as simple as possible to monitor and easily accessible without BIOS, right on board with LED posters to display all relevant OC values, pre-installed water cooling connections on the passive heatsinks on the board and more, because it is of course to high temperatures in maximum power of all components. NB and SB already come up with its own, massive heat sinks on the board in the house. One has the choice between active air cooling or water cooling prepared on the board, and between all the stuff it does not look more like a lot of space out for a NH-D14. But still. It works.

The Intel Core2 Extreme QX6850 has a thermal design power (TDP) of 130 watts (!). The TDP is the maximum power which can provide a CPU via a thermally significant period of time, while commercially available software is executed. So do not compare the Vollasttemperatur this processor with approximately only 80-watt CPUs or the like that do not nearly have the same TDP and are not designed for high continuous temperatures. The QX6850 is nowadays only a pure Lover processor because still more expensive than current CPUs. He is not a gaming processor, but was / is used in laboratories for scientific calculations that take days or weeks. For pure gamers and their sheer fun the price / performance ratio is beyond good and evil. The only marginally. But whoever it is, it also reserves because current title he still creates in spite of his years, assuming an optimal system.

Here it's all about the cooling performance of Noctua NH-D14 under "hottest" conditions, therefore whether he manages to cool a "energy-guzzling" 130- watt CPU to a temperature range that is for other, cooler processors also normal when running at full load. There is no doubt that if he wins the Thermal Load of a QX6850 under full load, it creates playing every other cooler processor. The question would be only if he could not be a little too-much for already cool CPUs if someone namely no 74, - wants to spend. Then it does also determines a more favorable model. Otherwise, the motto is, however: the cooler, faster, more durable and better.

With a standardized, supplied boxed Intel "cooler" in "Down Blower" - execution, which also at full load sounds like a vacuum cleaner, a QX6850 running under load slightly with 74 ° or more, depending on the OC status until he too eventually times left the service. In Idle there are, if you're not stressed out him and lucky, depending on and an ambient, 58 ° to 64 ° or 68 ° like at higher clock rates. This all depends on good FSB and CPU frequencies. High temperatures go always at the expense of performance, because the performance of the CPU is increasingly throttled, the more they a dangerous temperature range approaches to no heat death die must. Must be from when throttled depends on the thermal design of the processor.

The NH-D14 cooler (including supplied fresh thermal grease to years) the temperature is now rising at full load not more than 52 ° (measured at for example. Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag on the highest settings in the pause mode of the game he is about 48 ° ). Currently, the temperature is now, when I write this, at 46 ° (two browser in a 14 tabs, and another program open). The current below the cooler GPU has usually 45 °. The housing temperature is currently at constant 35 ° under load at the time AC IV Black Flag at max. 40 °.

The max. Rotational speed of the fans is without Noctua- ULNA at just 1339-1360 rpm (however are both fans, the smaller 120 and the large 140s, a Y-split cable with a single fan header connected to the board. Therefore, I trust Asus 'AI have not really). The CPU voltage varies currently from 1.111 to 1.124 V.

Well below 47 ° It's in a QX6850 on this board and in this case so the NH-D14 not. The difference is nevertheless proud and permanent 20 ° to 25 ° compared to a boxed Intel Down Blower. This corresponds to a reduction of the CPU temperature to about 30%, based full load = 74 ° 100, in comparison to full load, 52 °. If one were to 52 ° full load as the base 100, then the processor was previously up to 74 ° = about 42% hotter.

Whichever one ever like better, the cooling performance of the NH-D14 is certainly significant, noticeable, not only measurable, nigh phenomenal, since the radiator is not even to hear. The operating noise of the NH-D14 is light years away from the noise of jets taking off, the boxed Intel cooler caused a full load. As more fans in the housing run (8 of them), is not exactly make out that noise now currently the Noctua comes. According Noctua there are in any case max. 20 dB.

All together I only hear a monotone, quiet noise. It is neither louder nor quieter, whatever Thermal Load is occurring. So I wanted to have it. Quiet during gaming and video post-processing while maximum power of the CPU.

If you want to it even quieter (only max. 900 rpm) than. At max 1300 RPM (+/- 10%) already is, Noctua provides this with two adapter cable provided with resistors, so-called Low-Noise or Ultra-Low-Noise Adaptors (ULNA). This may vary depending on CPU and chassis temperature behind (not before!) The Y- split cables are set. An adapter is included for the 140s and a corresponding for 120mm fans. Never one of the adapters for both use simply by clapping him on the fan headers of the board before the Y-cable! FYI: The black adapter is 140mm- fan and the blue adapter for the NF-P12 120mm fan for the NF-P14.

Noise: 19.6 / 19.8 dB (A)
Noise with ULNA: 13.2 / 12.6 dB (A)

Who does not want to use the front 120mm NF-P12 or space reasons can not use it can optionally also by means of the supplied screws and even decoupled by means of the well enclosed vibration compensators at another, more suitable place to use in its case.

The NH-D14 is designed for more than 150,000 hours of operation. Who, say, the radiator per day has 8 hours in operation and 365 days a year, can use it in theory for 51 years. Kudos to those who do it. :)

Conclusion:

When my dealer it said, the NH D14 even suggest some water cooling. But I will not try to verify, because I never liked the idea of ​​water in my enclosures particularly attractive. :) I think it but you. With less than 50 ° at up to 130- watt power-hungry CPU and heated as the QX6850, while no kicking in the foreground noise, my expectations were exceeded long ago.

I do not regret a Euro, the me of the NH-D14 has cost more, would have cost than other double radiators, since one it after all, gets such a multi-compatible cooler, which can continue to countless, modern boards of different socket, both Intel and AMD, USING and may also, in contrast to other Doppelradiator- coolers, not only with 6 heatpipes, but also with 2 fans comes, of which the 120mmm- fan optionally can be (even decoupled) used as an additional case fan. And only an additional 120mm (case) fans already cost more money. That's perfectly fine. Extra equipment is also included, well organized and in a scale that leaves no wish unfulfilled.

Who wants to pay less, then gets less and will in future probably often times have to buy more additional coolers. So if less is already more, how much more is only then more? ;)

However, anyone who is on Intel's LGA2011 out with the NH-D14, and only on who was at Noctua better ask ("on demand", according to the website). Officially, there are for Socket LGA2011 namely the NH-D14 SE2011. The fit then but even there.

The 'experience' NH-D14 I describe best with Noctua's own words:

"The NH-D14 premium solution for the highest demands in quality quiet cooling."

As a matter of fact. It should be added not in my case. Full marks.

For anyone else who might be more about compatibility with other bases, operating with an i7 or what always want to know, recommended "strongly" before reading correspondingly different tests.

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