So i finally did it. I installed the Noctua 12A with the dual fans.
This thing is slick. Dropped my temps down by a lot. While at idle my CPU is 33, GPU is 22 and my system is at 25. While gaming on max settings the hottest ive had it is 60 degrees while in auto mode…. huge improvement,
I am sorry if my grammer is bad or if i am rambling. Just finished a 18 hour shift. Came home and saw that my parts arrived so i threw them in, and now im on hear telling you guys you should get this thing if you havent already.
Now this was very simple and straight foreward. It took a little common sense and extra hardware. Like everyone says you 4 M3 screw 10-12 mm. second you will need a way to clean the old thermal paste off of the Cpu as my kit didnt come with anyway to do it, I DID NOT NEED TO PULL THE MOBO. all you do is slap the brackets over the old pegs throw those blue spacers in then screw em down and then ohhhhhh babbby your cooking….
this was fairly easy and straight forward.
Ways to improve this mod are to buy 2 extra high RPM fans. The fans that are given to you in this kit are great, but they are not designed to exceed 2000 RPM.
so next week i will be taking the fans off of my tower and putting them up on the top rack to help pull air out of my system. I am waiting on some 2500 RPM Corsair fans, to chill this bad boy even more.
Keep in mid that this is tight if you have tall RAM. I have 2 16 GB Ram sticks that are tall and bulky and the one fan is almost sitting ontop of my ram card. so if your going to get that tall boy RAM. Make sure you install that before you slap this guy in.
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IF you are adding top fans do that first (wire and cable manage first) then put this puppy together. Second good look with those **** little clips on the fans.
TLDR
This thing is amazing and an amazing addition to my build
