Noctua NH-D15 Unboxing & Installation 

The cooler being an eyesore is totally subjective. I think it looks badass man.

For those of you with an LGA 2011 board like me, you do not need the backplate. Read the instructions in the box, they walk you through the entire process of how to mount it.

I've been debating installing mine but this video has motivated me to do it a lot.. Thank you.. What I appreciate most is confirmation ( I couldn't find elsewhere) that you can install these D15's without having to pull out the motherboard 1st.. That would have been time consuming and risky for me since I'm not confident I can get all the Panel and SATA/ USB cabling back properly without a lot of fiddling.. I like the comparison Benchmarks too.. so before I pull it I will try find the Prime95 app and run it for a while. and Finally I was shocked to see you had so much overhead remaining between the plexiglass side panel and the top of FAN 2.. That's very encouraging to see since I was assuming I'd have to leave Fan2 OFF.. Thanks Again .. wish me luck.. I'll be back in a few days with an update on how it went once I complete the effort.. Mine is a AMD Ryzen7 2700 into a MSI X470 CARBON Pro MB with G.SKILL DDR4 and a RTX 2080? Graphics card.. Thanks Again for taking the time to make this video.. even tho it's for a different processor .. it helped a lot

This is EXACTLY what I needed to see. Thank you for making this.

This is a very well put together video. I had just purchased the Noctua NH-D15 and wasn't sure just how good it really was compared to liquid cooling, so this video was very reassuring that I made the right choice! Even though the Noctua is ugly af, performance is all that matters =)

This fan is massive! I’m planning on using this fan when I build my PC. Wish me luck!

that Cooler Master Storm Trooper is a nice case

I recently replaced my brand name, 3 year old liquid cooler with a NH-D15 because of concerns that as it got older the liquid cooler may fail and leak - totally wrecking my system - as happened in my previous system build which had a cheap, OEM liquid cooler. To my tremendous surprise, on my 140w TDP i7-5820k, the NH-D15 significantly out performs the old (240mm radiator with two 120mm fans) liquid cooler - beating it most with a "100% CPU on all cores for over an hour" video rendering workload, consistently by 15C with a max temperature of just over 50C. I did use a higher efficiency thermal paste than the NT-H1 paste that Noctua provided, using Thermal Grizzly that is supposed to be 50% more efficient. Pretty surprised and impressed with the performance even though now there are a few other coolers that are reported to beat the NH-D15. I trust Noctua's reputation which seems to be well deserved so far!

overall a really good video, a few things to point out though, I see you put on a antistatisk wrist band, that's a smart and really cheap way to protect your pc from accidental static when you are installing new hardware. Might be a good idea to clip it in though, since all you had on in the video was the wristband, witch dosen't do anything on its own. The second thing i wanna mention is your cable management, or should i call it "management" your case has a lot of useful holes, notches, latches and trays for managing the cables. please use them :-) it would make me so much more happy to watch videos like this.

Nicely done. Everything explained with good camera shots. Thanks for the video.

Am i the only person in this world who love this noctua design and colors?

Looks great! Nice video, too.

Nice review there and installing guide! Getting ready for installing my nhd15

Those temps are pretty crazy to be honest. I recently installed the 212 Evo (Never again) and my max temp is 45C so for you to just 100C is ABSURD! My stock cooler maxed at 60C ffs XD

Great video mate. Thank you

Why not move the second into other side? So it will push the hot air fast because its very close to the red fan next to it?

Thanks for the vid. Helped me a lot. :) Cheers!

Great video although i wish you'd leave a link of the hardware you had

An excellent presentation, I purchased one of these today...02/09/2019 and was looking for some tips and tricks before installing. I am putting this on a 9900k. Will be deliiddng and direct die install if it cannot control temps at 5ghtz overclock on all cores. Liked and subbed thank you!

That thing is massive.

So I got a predator rosewill case for this build....lets just say I'm pretty pretty petrified about the size lol

Great video. I though it was really well made.

Im coming from the h100i v2, pump failure. Currently going through RMA and waiting for one of these i brought off Amazon...

What if you add to your aio cooler some noctua fans. I bet the performance would go up and sound down :D

The point was more cores more watt. Nothing else 😊

12:10 so 3C difference at idle, 10-16C difference at full load. Even hitting 90C makes me nervous.

the noctua it's better I love my noctua.

Does Noctua NH-D15 fit in Zalman Z1 neo caase?? Case supports maximum height 160mm, Noctua with fan is about 165mm high, can I close the case? There is a little more space in this ''window'' Please help, I appreciate.

Thank you!

@10:24....good video BUT, you couldve went in more depth as to HOW to put the clips on the second fan, as i had difficulty doing this, and had to look up another video that showed how to do it, you kinda just glossed over that.

I used a Hyper 212 Evo for almost three years with an i5 4690k. During 100% load, it ran at 50-70°. I saw it go up to 80-84° with Prime96. I'm guessing you were overclocking? I did use a bit more thermal paste than you did, though.

the cpu cooler is compatible with nzxt noctis 450 or not because its huge cooler

While you should not put a lot of paste, that was way to little(will not spread all over the processor)

Can I add a 2nd fan on the opposite side of ram instead at the side above the ram, because I don't have that much space above the ram?

do I have to take the plastic rings off the backplate

i have mainboard gigabyte h55s2v with gtx 770 4gb 384 bit ,,,, would that cooler fit in mainboard gigabyte h55 s2v (1156 socket) that already installed vga card manli geforce gtx 770 4 gb 384 bit ?,,, is there are an issue if i buy this cooler !! ??

well....i bought and i doesn't fit, i guess i have to buy another case....

god damn it, interferes with first pci slot even though pc part picker and the website said it doesnt

Wait im confused. This covers the RAM Slots? so..... the point of it?

Does it take alot of pressure to put the screws into the bracket?

Can I get some case recommendations that are compatible with this?

Which case do you have ?

You have to get thermal paste?

Hey i got a Cooler master elite 310 case (Yes i know it's hella small but it came with the original PC where after i started switching stuff out.... i bought the PC before i learned to build one myself...) Anyway getting off the subjekt here, i got a M5A97 R2.0 motherboard with horrible cable management but i can fix that... I were looking into buying this cooler but seeing how big that beast really is... I'm really not sure it's gonna fit... Soooo what do you think?

what is the name of your case

If I'm getting a Cooler Master- MasterCase Pro 5 (Mid Tower), will this fit?

is it a good idea to install the backplate with the motherboard still in there?

how do you install this right now with the 212 evo my ram is almost touching the fan, but with this its much bigger how will i have the fan face the ram it wont fit.

Mine vibrates.

Will i be able to fit 4 sticks of ram on with this? I'm getting the asus maximus vii formula.

100* celsius?, That can't be right can it?

what motherboard do you have?

What Motherboard is that?

how much room u have left? thinking on getting cm Haf 912 advanced, so i dont know if it will fit with regular size ram or i need to go for low profile ram (cm Haf 912 has 175mm cpu cooler clearence where as yours has 186.) do you have 12 mm free room or more?

Think this will fit in a corsair graphite 760t?

I'm planning to pair this with an "ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard" could you or anyone tell me if it would block the first pci? I plan to crossfire in the future as well.

What case is that?

How heavy is it

I have a fx 6300 with a noctua nh d15 OC to 4ghz

so does this work with AMD and Intel?

what are your specs for this pc?

It is of 1.3 KGs !!!

can the noctua nh d15 handle the heat of fx-9590?

i uprade my hyper 212 i get more than 85c on my i7 4790k oc to 4.6ghz and 90c on 4.7ghz

why does he sound like Nicholas Cage

"It's not about the looks, it's about the performance..." Wrong. It's about both.

That's not enough thermal paste. At all.

why couldnt those fans be black and gray. like seriously! wtf! those colors are just disgusting. but it performs great. i own this fyi. as a side cooler. i use h100i gtx.

So I'm thinking about building a PC is this a good build? pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/

What No Swiss Army Knife, you must be an amateur.

will this fan fit this case? www.coolermaster.com/case/mid-tower/cm593/

Lol terrible CPU the 4790k runs at 65°c max OC

its ugly

Great video, thanks!