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NH-D14 And Azza Solano?

mart21har

mart21har

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Hi guys,

Just ordered a noctua NH-D14 Cooler off of newegg and am a bit worried about it fitting in my case

I have the azza solano 1000
I already took off the side panel fan, but will it be enough?


Thanks!
 
Maybe ; I had to remove the side fan on a Solano a few years ago to mount a Coolermaster V8 which still barely fit... the Noctua is bigger in all dimensions.

Daimon
 
mart21har said:
will do
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My Silver Arrow just arrived. I got the same case as you. The SA is 167mm in height without the fan and is about 170mm with the fans installed. The Noctua is 160mm; so probably about 163mm with the 140mm fan.

2 highest end air coolers in the Azza = winning! 😛

I took the side fan off already though because I couldn't even fit the Megahalems with it.
 
The NH-D14 is a BEAST. I thought my tuniq tower 120 was a large HSF, my NH-D14 came today and nothing I had seen or read on the web had properly prepared me for the size of the thing.
 
Idontcare said:
The NH-D14 is a BEAST. I thought my tuniq tower 120 was a large HSF, my NH-D14 came today and nothing I had seen or read on the web had properly prepared me for the size of the thing.
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😀

noctuanhd14vsintelheats.jpg
 
Idontcare said:
😵

And that's why a piece of metal which has been engineered with no other purpose in life than to shunt heat from one end to the other can cost more than a dual-core state of the art leading edge cpu that powers the entire computer.
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An 89 inch tall commercial propane heater is $140 with shipping included. Oh these heatsinks cost way less than a leading dual core CPU to produce. It's just we are willing to pay $70-80 for some 1 Kg of metal with 2 fans, which probably cost Noctua $20-25 in total to manufacture. Think about it, Corsair's A70 with 2 fans often sells for $30 after MIR (and Corsair still makes money). But to us top air coolers such as the Silver Arrow, Archon and NH-D14 are like air cooling p0rn! 😛

BTW, there is nice new air cooler from NZXT: Havik 140.

Thank about this, 3 years ago the Thermalright IFX-14 sold for $79.99 without any fans. Now we get Noctua NH-D14 or Silver Arrow with better performance and 2 fans included for "free". That's not bad 🙂
 
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Get something like the new Cooler Master Hyper 612, bolt on another 120mm fan for a push pull and stick a hard acrylic at both sides and you'll get a NH-D14 -ish type cooler with the air channeling properties of the Corsair A50. 😀
 
Got it today, it fits after taking out the side panel fan.. i've got it sitting pretty at 4ghz... my old h50 could only dream about this
 
mart21har said:
Got it today, it fits after taking out the side panel fan.. i've got it sitting pretty at 4ghz... my old h50 could only dream about this
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:thumbsup:

There has been way too much hyper ever since these self-cointained watercooling kits started to arrive on the scene. Most of them tend to be worse performers than top air coolers and they also have louder fans to boot. Perhaps H100 will finally surpass the best air coolers, but the H50/H60/H70 and even the H80 aren't as good as the best air coolers at the same noise levels.
 
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