PWM support and Low-Noise Adaptor - The NF-A14 premium fan supplied with the NH-C14S supports PWM for convenient automatic speed control through the motherboard. The cooler clearly sits over the expansion slot in this shot – but this may not be the case with your board.

The only complaint anyone has is that their fan colors are quite awful, but would it truly be a Noctua cooler without that color scheme? The above chart shows all the CPU coolers that we have in our lab sorted from highest to lowest by the amount of fin count each cooler has. Today we have another processor cooler in the form of the Noctua NH-C14S, an improvement on the previously reviewed Noctua NH-C14. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.The NH-C14S is the successor to the NH-C14 which is a top-flow design cooler that is designed to be compatible with mini-ITX and micro-ATX motherboards. The only issue we encountered was the offset design made the NH-C14S incompatible with some Mini-ITX cases. The NH-C14's six heatpipe c-type design allows for superb quiet cooling performance while maintaining a much lower profile than today's tower-style coolers and providing excellent airflow over RAM modules and near-socket mainboard components. I really think the main contributing factor to the heat in my room is from both the weather, and the fact there is a desktop computer in my room. The fan position can be freely selected so that the NH-C14S caused significantly less space problems.

Thanks to its deeper fin stack and the renowned NF-A14 PWM fan, the single fan NH-C14S provides similar quiet cooling performance to its dual fan predecessor while being even more versatile: With the fan installed on top of the fins, the cooler is compatible with RAM modules of up to 70mm height. High Clearance Mode – Run with the NF-A14 fan installed on top, the NH-C14S provides extended clearance underneath the fin stack. The cooler has provisions to mount a fan on top and below the fins, providing a few choices in how you set it up. If you decide to install the NF-A14 fan on top, the NH-C14S provides extended clearance underneath the fin stack for RAM modules with heat-spreaders of up to 70mm height. Complying with the open SecuFirm™ standard, the cooler can be made compatible with the older LGA1366 and LGA775 sockets using the optional NM-I3 mounting kit, which is provided by Noctua free of charge.Noctua's NF-A14 iPPC-3000RPM fan move 159 CFM airflow which is more than any fan that we have in our lab. In more general cases, the fan on the radiator in Top-Blow arrangement is installed, so that under the radiator memory modules with up to 65 millimeters height have space.

As usual with Noctua, the packaging is excellent, showing the various features of the product, including compatibility with past and future sockets. Now I am not here to complain, especially when there are worse places with higher humidity and temperatures to deal with.Since Noctua provided not only the heatsink and the extra fan, but an extra NF-F12 PWM as well, I tried adapting that to the C14S. The market stabilized and within the entire range and scope of heatpipe based coolers there's a certain comfort zone with a corresponding product available. And if you’re willing to give up maybe a couple of degrees, a pair of NF-A14’s on RC7 low noise adapters will give a very quiet cooler that performs very well.

The purpose of this TekSpek is to delineate the publicly known features of Intel’s next generation desktop microarchitecture. That makes the NH-C14S are relatively low, deadly silent and a more than powerful enough product that can take on the even a Core i7 4790K as you can even overclock a bit as well. Additionally the overall thickness of the heat sink is slightly larger than with the previous model. This is something that many reviewers take for granted when testing CPU coolers and believe it or not, it makes a world of difference. After opening the box I was able to immediately notice how the cooler ships to each and every other user, fortunate enough to get his hands on a Noctua product.The smallest box holds the AMD specific mounting accessories, while the other box holds the counterparts for Intel. Topped off with the trusted, pro-grade SecuFirm2™ multi-socket mounting system, Noctua’s proven NT-H1 thermal compound and full 6 years manufacturer’s warranty, the NH-C14S is a premium quality top-flow solution for the highest demands. The NH-C14S comes with one 140mm fan while the old NH-C14 had two 140mm fans with a maximum RPM of 1200.