How To Install Noctua NH D15 Chromax Black On AMD AM4 But Beware Of The Size 

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Used this cooler for my first build last week. Works great, but it’s going to be a nightmare if I’ll ever need to replace my gpu.

Yo mike! A big fan here thank you for your content! Have a great day!

Cool! I have just started experiencing overheating on my system and found this. I have the same motherboard and cooler is on the way. I am worried that my RAM may not have clearance tho. It appears yours was more low profile than mine. I also have a huge project two days after it arrives. I do not want to risk pulling out the GPU and all the rest of it with that schedule. You answered all my questions! Thank you!

Great video. I'll be replacing my stock wraith spire with the NH-D15 chromax black cooler in just a couple days.

Tested mine a while ago on a cheap a320 mobo, as I was worried about weight distribution on the AM4 backplate in my oddball case and orientation in the sharkoon rev 200 for linear airflow but worked out great. If your building an overclocked pro audio set up and like in my user case using for line level recording electrical hum is non existent as have had issues isolating the feedback from cheaper CPU fans and especially AIO pumps in some set ups. Isolating case fan noise is easy but the CPU fan is always a bit of an issue. To get clarity in analogue signals using progs like wave lab, Ableton, Acid Pro etc this gets top recommendation from me. On a separate note I know you was probably just eager to fit but recommend leaving thermal paste application to the very last minute before fitting the cooler. Less chance of contaminating the paste with foreign particles as you work around it and les chance of spreading around on everything you touch if you accidentally get some on your finger. Covid researchers could use thermal paste to study transmission. 4g of MX2 could infect 1/4 of the population of Bristol in just 3 hours LOL.

great video, thanks! im looking at buying this cooler but i prefer the chrome one but dont want the cream and brown fans. it is possibe to get after market fans for these coolers? maybe something with rgb even?

I have my nhd14 from 2013 and still does a great job ... the look its rly outdated unfortunately but can't find any other reason to upgrade...I was looking to change the fans as the old ones have a max speed that its on a lower level and I saw Noctua have some which go to 2000 rpm ! What rpm does this version of fans go to Mike ? BTW great review 👌

I'm so glad someone mentioned how big this thing is because it doesn't seem to be mentioned on other channels or Reddit. I'm sure its a great performer but I've spent a day trying to wrestle this monster into my case. I've got a standard ATX case and motherboard but it's so huge that I had to pull out the existing motherboard, pre-insert some cables like CPU power, and system fans because I knew I'd never get my fingers in there again once the motherboard and tower were put back in place. I regret trading my Dark Rock Slim but I am looking forward to decent performance and quietness.

Phwoar.....out of the box its one gorgeous looking air cooler ! No doubt that its going to keep things cool and quiet, you get what you pay for after all. Its a beast isnt it, is it as big as the GELID kewler ? If it were a toss-up between this and the Arctic Liquid Freezer 2 AIO (waiting for a good price on that) then I think it would be neck and neck temperature-wise. Nice one Noctua, quality produce ! Thanks for a great video Mike and Kath.

Great Video Mike. Thanks!

The one thing which would have been great to include in the video... is where and how did you connect the 2 fans (I have 7 case fans the cooler excluded for installation and this would have helped with the management of it... despite reading the mobo and noctua user guide )

These massive air-coolers are awesome. Aye, they basically block out the ram and the whole cpu area, but there's just a raw visual impact of having a huge heat-fin tower filling up most of the case space. I kinda wish there were similar aftermarket pass-through coolers for GPUs (nowadays add-ons are water based, and stock coolers pull air into the card instead of past it like cpu coolers do; so the airflow on the lower case half is usually a mess).

Big fan of Noctua products. Great video, thanks Mike.

Great review, Mike! She is a beast! I would love to see how she does against the bequiet! Dark Rock Pro 4... they sure seem like a direct competitor. One thing I would have to point out is that the prices on high end air coolers are going crazy. Might cost you 30-40% less 6 months ago. Sigh.

Great video! Just got the D15 since I upgraded my CPU to a Ryzen 5 5600X. Can only fit one fan though because of the RAM sticks. I can put it higher but it blocks the glass door from fitting. May try a different combination. I’m still clocking high temps thought, about 40 C at idle and 80 C at full load. Is this because I only have one fan? Looks like you put more thermal paste than I did - maybe that’s the issue? I don’t think there was any plastic or anything left on the heatsink to raise the temp.

Hey Mike, just wondering what board would you recommend more? The MSI B550M PRO VDH WIFI or the Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard? Because I am trying to find a good motherboard for the Ryzen 5 2600x and the 3060 ti.

Great Review Mike i,am going to buy 3 for my new builds in 2021starting with mine ! lol The Price Here Currently In The US Is $99.99 USD @ Amazon

What sort of memory kit/motherboard combo do you have? I heard Corsair LPX may be one of the only memory kits you can use with the NH-D15

Hi, master, could you tell me what is the model of the RAM you used? or if you are kind enough to post the link here, please. And by the way good video.

Noctua has a great motherboard and case comparison section on their main website. It really came in handy when I upgraded to Ryzen 9 as I could still use my original case. Great video. Liked, subbed and rang the bell…

I love my Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Black, it performs brilliantly and as a bonus, hides my GPU's ugly backplate.

thank you for this , I have install instructions

Great review!

Hey man! I would be glad if you will notice this. I don't know if I am being nuts with my question but, should I stop screwing the screws until I feel them not turning anymore? Does it really need to be that tight? With no allowance? Thanks in advance man.

Hey MIke, I recently acquired my NH-D15 and assembled it into my case. After putting everything in place I noticed the 2nd fan, which sits on top of the ram(corsair vengeance pro rgb), leans against the side panel. When I noticed this, I readjusted the fan so that it could be a tag lower and it helped. The thing is, the fan is still being pushed a little against the side panel. Should I take the L and remove the 2nd fan and use it as an exhaust? Or should I be okay the way it is now? Looking for your advice on this since this cooler is MASSIVE. Thanks in advance!

Just ordered one of these for my 3900 (non X), due to my very warm 5700 sitting so close to the CPU, it is proving impossible for the wraith cooler alone to do the job. I also suspect that the system builders used some cheapo thermal paste so I will be replacing that at the same time I fit the Noctua, hopefully, that will remedy the heat issues.

Mike, How do you feel this compares with the NH-D15S, especially with Corsair RGB Memory which needs its top showing?

Hey man! I’m new to pc’s. For the fans where would I connect them to? Do I just match it to the about of wholes the connecter has?

Newbie question. I’m building my first PC: 011dynamic xl, Ryzen 9 5950x, Lian Li uni fans throughout. Could I theoretically replace the Noctua fans with Lian Li uni fans? I’m hoping to add RGB and have a uniform look to all fans in the case. Apologies if this is a stupid question.

Ok! I got this cooler in beige installed this morning.. First, it's a beast. Unless I'm crunching something with my computer, the fans don't spin. Only the the fan in front and in the back of my are running, even slowly, create enough airflow to allow this. But this lead to another problem. Restart don't work. Looks like that the motherboard don't start if it don sense cpu fan spinning.. And the option to disable that don't seem to be present present on my MSI a570x-A Pro.. I'll keep investigating..

I had the problem with my graphics card, so I got the NH D15s chromax, and it sorted out the graphics card issue. Only downside is that it only comes with the 1 fan!

What case are you using for this ? It has big clearance on the top of the case :)

Hey man just one question, whats the correct way to install the fan in the cooler?

Which case did you use?

11:10 this is what you are looking for.

i have NH-D15 and a shipped u12a near me, i wish i could use NH-D15 but its just to beefy... u12a has his downsides, and since LF II is so good, its absolute an option...

I love this cooler but I’m just really concerned that when I install my gpu I’ll never be able to replace it because of how big the cooler is

Sonewhat oor guide mane, i neededd to see the bsckplate.

hi there! I just want to ask if I can fit 4 sticks of ram modules with the height of 47mm each ... will be there enough ram clearance to the air cooler?

Hello, everyone ! 🌞😉👍 Very good ! I really L❤️VE Noctua colers !

Just wondering, but why didn't you set the case on it's side when you did the install? It seems like it would've been easier that way or am I missing something?

Would this be overboard for a Ryzen 5 5600x not really confident to install one of these things lol will a Ryzen stock cooler be fine?

Can you remember whether there was a layer of plastic film under the heatsink that you had to peel off?

I want this cooler but I'm worried about compatibility issues...from where in my case do I measure to ensure I can still close my side panel

will this be any good for the 5950x i will be getting the Corsair iCUE H170i ELITE CAPELLIX Liquid CPU Cooler but i need a cheaper alternative until i can buy it

hahaha...ha...ha.. I've watched so much and read how hot these Ryzen 7800X3D are... I'm building or actually improving an 11-year-old PC and I tested the motherboard, RAM and CPU all night. Unfortunately, I had an unforeseen problem with the cooling of the PROLIMATECH MEGAHALEMS. I kind of had an adapter that fits AMD on AM2, AM3 and AM3+ which should also fit on AM4. Unfortunately, in the AM5, the spacing of the screws from the screwed catches is completely different. Fortunately, I also bought a heatsink, Arctic Frizer PRO 64, for retro AMD equipment... Only 3 heat pipes. I used the same but on Intel C2D 6400@ 3.2GHz and it worked great. Well, I'll see how it copes with this hot AMD CPU ... And what a great surprise, the radiator is not even lukewarm. I used an old, about 8-year-old MX4 paste that had been opened a long time ago - it just fell into my hand from a box of others. At idle CPU around 40 ST. C, under the load of about 130W (from the wall socket), the temperature around 85-max to 90, the socket temperature about 40-47 max ST. C CPU voltage about 1.1V clock all the time at 4.8GHz. The radiator is still barely lukewarm. Even the heat pipes just above the IHS and the summer IHS itself I checked with a pyrometer. Warmer frames around 41 degrees C. The chipset (X670 chipsets) and its heatsink are hotter, already boiling -52 degrees C . Power section.... barely lukewarm around 35 degrees C on large pieces of aluminum. MSI X670P WiFi board. On the other side of the plate lying on an A4 paper envelope just below the CPU socket, barely 35 ST. c I loaded the CPU with Cinebench 20 (max 110-115W from the socket), but only with my favorite program IntelBurnTest 2.54 by Agent GOD and the CPU instruction set replaced with linpack it reached 130W. By stressing 14 cores of the IGPU (GPU-Z and PCIe link test) I managed to draw about 150W from the socket on the 80+ GOLD ENERMAX power supply. Either I got some exceptionally good piece of silicon or these CPUs are not that hot at all. Oh and for the Kingston 6000 RGB memory exactly like that - Kingston Fury Beast Black Ddr5 64Gb 6000Mhz Cl36 (KF560C36BBEK264) I chose 2 XMP profile instead of XPO. They are identical in settings. Profile 2 sets the memory to 5600 Mt and the voltage to 1.25V, the SOC goes to space at 1.3V. I changed the RAM voltage to 1.3V and SOC to 1.1V and set the speed to 6000Mt. And it works beautifully. Test in Memtest UEFI, test with Linpack a few hours. Zero errors. There was no ECC in memtest. Only this boot MSI board. Even nothing moved on 4800 jedec and still starts after a simple reboot about 45s to the post screen. Massacre... After turning off the power it's even worse, it's some madness 2 reboots until.

considering im on aio im trying to decide wether to get one for a change but the size on a msi mobo in a 400d case ??

Always wanted one, but its £90 on Amazon. Maybe for my next build.

Oh wow max clearance for cpu cooler in my case is 165mm. So gotta wonder if it would actually fit.

Just bought this cooler used for 40% off. Its comming in tomorrow or the day after.

tnx...

the plate that comes into contact with the CPU, does it have anything on it that needs removing? I've installed mine and come across a video saying to remove a plastic film but I didn't notice one!

I like this cooler, but the size of it was not going to play well in my case at the time I looked at it. Now, with my new case, it would fit, but I already got another one. Maybe when I'll do a complete upgrade (probably with AM5), if it fits, it will be my cooler of choice. Noctua is a well respected brand.. But those old colors choice... 🤔

The price of the Noctua NH D15 Chromax Black is $100 on the US Amazon. Not a bad price, as it's about $30 less then what I paid for my waterblock. Although, installing a waterblock is much easier, and they fit in any case and RAM height isn't a probable. Personally, in my opinion a hard line open loop is much more attractive than a big block of metal and fans covering up the entire motherboard. A waterblock is also silent because it has no fan. LOL

I recently ordered this fan however it seems abit wobbly, does anyone have an idea on what I could do to solve this?

Excellent cooler.. 😎🇺🇸

Is this cooler compatible with gigabyte c200 case I7 9700k Z390 gaming plus msi 2*8 corsair vengeance pro rgp 3200mhz Is there any issue with the ram or anything ?

I like the Zotac GPU in it. a 16XX ???

I'm having trouble connecting the bracket with my Asus x570 crosshair Viii formula. I had no problem with the Asus Sabertooth 990fx R2.0. It either doesn't get all the way tight or it never tightens at all I need help please.

Hey Mike, you seem to be the most famous English speaking person that has communicated with V-Color. They have a technology called IMS in some of their RAM sticks, which apparently was developed by Kingtiger Technologies and patented, and also integrated into UEFI BIOS implementations from AMI, Insyde, and maybe others. What the hell does IMS do? I've read as much of the patents as I could stand to, and every press release. Do you know what IMS does? It sounds good but it's confusing as to what it actually does. Do I need to enable it? What supports it? Does every motherboard support it? My V-Color Sticks say "iMS+" on them, what does that mean? How is that better than non-IMS RAM? I'm so confused. It's interesting though and if it really means it's self healing ram, that's cool. I would also assume that if it did what it said it did, V-color would have an up-to-date website with all their products on it, and that Kingtiger Technologies would have an HTTPS website, so that's like two out of three fingers put down when I'm thinking if this is legit or not.

I'm so psyched to take my nhd15 off of my 2600k (@ 4.7ghz), slap it on my 5600x and finally let the old girl retire. After 9 years, I feel like I should mount this 2600k on a plaque, lol. Now I just need to figure out what ram will fit under it, all the current gen stuff seems to have skyscraper heatsinks!

Well, I'm 2 years late to the party but I want to know one thing before I buy this. Can I swap the right hand side fan to the left side? My RAM is about 43 mms tall so I can't install this in 2 fan mode if I can't place the fan to the left side. And running it 1 fan mode would probably hurt cooling performance. (it should cool an R5 7600x)

can i fit a noctua nh d15 on a B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI mobo and CRUCIAL BALLISTIX RAM? am i going to have any problem with cpu cooler bumping the gpu?? ( GPU IS 3060TI ) . what case are u proposing to get? im on a budget of 150$ tops thanks a lot everyone

can it fit in deepcool macube 110 ? . I'm planing to buy this

ı got b550 tomahawk and corsair vengeance rgb 16gb ram . d15 can fit with my rams??

basically block out the ram i had to take out some ram now i cant place it back i have a big case but i think i need a bigger one help?

Could you please do a video on an Arctic A13 X (i13 X for intel) cooler? Thanks in advance :)

wont this cpu cooler put excess strain on the motherboard and eventually break something due to its heavy weight ?!

Hi, can I instal it oriented to the top of my case?

Worthy Support comment 🙂

Definitely better (and safer for your components) than the AMD Wraith. The Wraith bent some of the pins on my 5900x (could it have damaged the motherboard, too?). I put the D15 on my 3900x, no problems, no scares, no damage. I think I'll be using the MSI bolster stick, just to be safe, though.

could not install second fan due to ram and cabinet

Howd did you put your rams?

I wanted a noctua fan but instead I'm getting a be quite one I'll be rebuilding my pc on Christmas these are the new and old specs Amd phenom II X6 1075t (old) Cooler master hyper tx3 with a be quite 92mm fan (new) 16gb ddr3 1333 ram (old) Evga gtx 970 (old) Two segate baracudas in raid 0 (old) Ionz kz08 (new) Pny 500gb ssd (new) And maybe a aerocool cylon 700w If you answer this does a 6+2 pin pcie power work on a 4+4?

You need to flip the fans anyway to make sure the white serial numbers aren't starting you in the face every day ;)

Looks like it sits right over the DIMM slots.

This cooler has to be huge as it is made to replace AIO coolers.

I’m glad it’s black. And not like something from the 50s/60s made by a pseudonym of Stark Enterprises 🤣🤣

6:15 or your delivery guy is Jim Carrey :)

is am5 certain?

cool !! ;-)

you should lay down the case and not install it while the case is vertical. You can easily damage it the way you are holding it.

Why are your RAM slots empty? I came to see how RAM interference would be as the coolers and fans are so big.

Do people judge you based on your cpu cooler 🤔? 🤔

The moment you buy RGB ram, but the cooler is so monstrous, you can’t even see it😭 ooops lmao💀 Oh well tho..at least I know it’s there🙈 PS: nice to see a Zotac gpu. I got a white 3070 👍🏼

Did he just instal the cooler with no RAM in place??? Why???

I still find the original colour something different

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AMD rules the waves? Hmmmm

Ok, why don't you just lay the computer on its side to install this? I don't get it.

Bqd

I wouldn't call this the best air cooler when the Deepcool Assassin 3 exist and it's cheaper in a lot of countries.

10 mins of talking about nothing to just show what 95% of people came here for in wanting to see how this cooler is mounted.

Intel's got the fastest chip on the market for PC right now. You're an AMD snob...

6:10 - can you not ever beg? Thanks. Give us the information and then get out of our lives. The internet wasn't this self promotional in the 90s. You're bungling it. BUNGLING.