Noctua NH-D14 Mounting position

[h3blade]

I have finally replaced my old i7 2600K stock fan with NH-D14.

My first impression with NH-D14 is, wow it is a big guy when the sales hand it over to me. It cost me 90AUD in sydney. but I am very happy with its performance.

anyway, back to the topic, I shouldn`t worry much about the way it mounted on my P67 motherboard? well , the whole unit weighted more than 900g with 2 fans. NH-D14 is mounted on top part of my HAF912 case. I assume the motherboard won`t bend over a long period of time right?

 

[BoomerD]

I have finally replaced my old i7 2600K stock fan with NH-D14.

My first impression with NH-D14 is, wow it is a big guy when the sales hand it over to me. It cost me 90AUD in sydney. but I am very happy with its performance.

anyway, back to the topic, I shouldn`t worry much about the way it mounted on my P67 motherboard? well , the whole unit weighted more than 900g with 2 fans. NH-D14 is mounted on top part of my HAF912 case. I assume the motherboard won`t bend over a long period of time right?

As long as you have all the mounting screws in the motherboard, and the mounting bracket for the cooler installed correctly, you shouldn't have any problems.

 

[Piano Man]

Mines been more than fine for a while now. Let us know what happens with your OC.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Let me throw out an idea or two.

I've used the ThermalRight Ultima-90, the ThermalRight "TRUE," the Prolimatech Megahalem, the Noctua-U12P (or the model similar to the TRUE and Megahalem). I'm currently running the NH-D14 with both fans hanging on it and the case-rear-exhaust fan ducted to the rear face of the D14. Keep that exhaust fan and the ducting in mind for a moment.

You can get rid of fan-weight -- which I'd done for the other coolers -- by "hanging" a "pusher/intake" fan forward of the D14 from the case or the hard-drive cage. You can probably even find nickel/dime fan-hardware that would enable you to do such.

Block off the sides of the D14 with some foam board, so all air pushed into it is the air the gets sucked out. If you want, you might just add some foam-board panels to either side of the space where the center fan would otherwise be deployed.

If the pusher fan sits too far in front of the NH-D14, look around for some of those clear-plastic barrel-shaped CD/DVD containers that come with your typical 50 or 100-disc Cd/DVD blanks, and trim it with a Dremel tool. It should just fit the width of a 120mm fan. But drilling four holes in the CD barrel and using wire-ties through those holes and the four mounting holes of the fan, you should be able to duct the output-side of your "pusher-intake" fan to the front fins of the NH-D14. Your exhaust case-fan, similarly ducted, would be the "puller" fan. And you may reap two benefits: no extra weight on the cooler, and less vibration noise if the fans are no longer hanging on the cooler.

 

[h3blade]

could any of the NH-D14 users post their screenshot with case open?

my default setting is 3.7Ghz with i7 2600k, temp never excess 42 degrees under full load with AID64 cpu stress test. ROOM TEMP is around 20 degrees

i haven`t try anything greater than 3.7Ghz as I don`t play games

 

[peonyu]

I dont have the D-14 but I have its "little" brother, the U-12P. Which is to say...If the DH-14 was a person and weighed 600 pounds, this "little" guy is 550lbs. Not a big difference. The size of it in my case is massive, I consider it a drawback actually since I had to unscrew two side case fans and rescrew them on the outside of the case in order for the side panel to go back on. There is about 1/6 inch of room between the top of the HS and my side panel.

Position wise I have the push/pull setup with the air going out the rear exhaust, but I think mounting the cooler with the air being pushed up if you have a top exhaust could work better possibly, depending on how your video card exhausts its air [in the case or spits it out the back].

As far as the board goes I dont think the weight is going to do much over time. The MB is [should] screwed into the case for one, so it has those screws acting against "bending" over time. And the Video card is locked into the MB aswell and that is screwed into the case, that to counters bending. And the backplate of course prevents it even more. The boards can handle it, old "monster" Heatsinks [P4/AthlonXP HS's mostly] did bend the MB and started the myth of boards bending, but those did not use backplates for the most part.