Noctua NH-P1, Passive CPU Cooler - Fanless Heatsink for 100% Silent Cooling

When I bought this to replace my dying AIO, I assumed my temps would increase and I would have to upgrade somewhere down the road, but suprisingly my rig has gotten better temps since making the switch, and as advertised it was completely silent (cuz no moving parts, duh). The build quality is great and it was easy to install, and thankfully it was able to fit in my case despite the comically large size. Overall I've been very impressed with its performance, and I see myself using it well into the future!

We don’t have a ton of passive coolers on the market anymore, but I’m glad we have this one. The tolerances are tight, it’s easy to install, and it works much better than I expected.I’m running a 5800x3D in the same case as a 3080 ti. This isn’t the coldest running system, but this cooler has kept my cpu under 65 C while under load. I do have two Noctua fans in the front of my case that provide a small amount of airflow, but that seems to be more than enough in side of my NZXT 510. This case is notoriously bad with air flow, but this cooler handles it like a champ.Keep in mind that higher end chips with higher TDP will require a tower that has some sort of active airflow. If you’re looking at purchasing this cooler you should already know how to set your fan curves accordingly.If you plan on using this in tandem with a totally passive build proceed with caution when dealing with any cpu that has a TDP higher than 100 watts. It will run well for a while, but you will fall out of boost clocks when the cooler gets heat soaked.I’m a big fan of this cooler, because I can set my fan curve to keep my fans off under most light to moderate loads. This also has the added benefit of no moving parts. No fan to go bad, no pump to clog, and no water levels to maintain. I will be long gone before this cooler goes through enough heat/cooling cycles have an effect on performance.

Love this thing. It's MASSIVE. was barely able to close my full sized tower case after installing.It does prevent me from being able to use at least 1 slot on the mainboard, but that's fine for my setup.My PC runs silent and cool.

This heat sink was exactly what I was looking for and it probably just comes down to personal preference for most. I honestly wish passive cooling was more prolific in the PC building world. I was trying to go for a quieter build and the stock AMD cooler is pretty loud and would fluctuate constantly. This keeps my average temps lower and less fluctuation. It fit in my case(Antec P180 mini) perfectly with my semi-passive setup. 3800X and 2070S. Noise and temps are lower plus no moving parts, which was worth $120 to me. I also like the look of it. No more stupid RGB.Update: upgraded to 5700X3D and 4070S. Noise and temps still superb.

Works great at passive cooling but I am in a bind looking for upgrades since the am5 mount that should have been included is missing

Length of ownership: 3 years+. Works great on my silent PC i5-12500. Installation was straightforward, though it was a tight fit in my medium tower case.

I bought this to build a 100% silent PC using an Intel Core i5-12600K CPU. It works much better than I expected. Although my initial plans were to buy a Core i5-12600T, I had so much trouble finding one that I decided to get a 12600K after realising it has the 4 efficiency cores, and manually limit the power. I started out limiting PL1/PL2/Tau to 40W/80W/40 sec, but I very quickly realised that I could run the CPU at the default power limits with only minimal overheating issues, so then I experimented with undervolting the CPU, and I have settled on a stable system using Adaptive voltage mode and an offset -135 mV. At these settings, I have been able to hit a Cinebench R23 multicore benchmark of 17513, with max power draw of about 100 W and a max CPU temp of about 87-88 C under sustained 100% load. My PC has no moving parts and is dead silent. 0 dBA SPL.This is the first time I've actually installed a CPU cooler from bare metal. All previous CPUs I've bought had the stock Intel cooler. Although I was a little nervous about getting the thermal paste right, it seems to be working perfectly on the first try. I'm using a Gigabyte Z690 UD AX DDR5 motherboard and a Thermaltake Core P3 chassis, with a Seasonic PX-500 fanless PSU.

Ordered one of these "new" and received what looked to be a open box item that had pieces missing (the custom screwdriver required for installation) and marks on the heatsink surface itself. Received the requested replacement and it also looked to be opened previously as it was missing packing materials and even had the heatsink damaged at some parts and further missing the protective cover over the heatsink cpu interface as well. It may be a good idea to avoid ordering this item from this site.The heatsink itself functions well and manages to keep even some higher end processors pretty cool passively, if you install a optional fan or install it into a high airflow case it works impressively well for a mostly passive cooler.