This Noctua D14 is from 2009.... How Well Does it Perform in 2020? 

This is the advantage of air coolers. All AiOs will be dead in 10 years.

I have been using my D14 for over 10 years now. Everytime I do a new build I think that maybe it is time to upgrade the cooler but so far I haven't seen anything that gives compellingly better performance. It even still has the original fans.

Ive got two D15's and a D14 reused them so many times over many upgrade cycles such a good investment.

im gonna have trouble sleeping knowing that ram is pushed by the cooler.

Still using the D14 myself, performs amazingly still :)

I've still got my old D14 boxed up. When I moved to a 6700K there were rumours going around about the substrate not being strong enough to withstand big air coolers, so I got a smaller Noctua cooler to be on the safe side. FWIW Noctua fans have a MTBF rate of 150,000 hours and I believe them. That's just over 17 years running 24/7. I'm still using the same NF-P12 case fans I've had for about a decade with no issues at all. I have to clean them every now and then, but that goes for all PC components.

Ha! My d14 started out on my 3570k at 4.5 (second hand at the time) and is still kicking plenty hard on my current 3600 on original fans. Takes the heat and quiet as. Get one!

How does the NH-D14 performs in 2020? Me: Turns head slightly to the right, then opens hardware monitor, sees i7-6700k overclocked at 4.7 ghz, at 61 celsius while both gaming and watching youtube... I say it performs well :)

If you need more cooling performance, you could replace the stock fans with newer ones. Noctua itself suggests the NF-P14r redux 1500 PWM (middle) and NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM (front). Both are compatible with the fan clips of the NH-D14 and combined they have around 50m³/h more airflow than the stock fans (at max rpm). Ofcourse they can get louder at max rpm, but they are PWM so you can control them as you see fit ;-)

D14 rules! It is high rise and may have clearance issues in narrow cases. Low profile memory is a bit of a challenge but I manage. It's HARD to clean but works very well when half choked with dust.. Noctua fans do not seem to suffer wear as do most fans. There are 6 Noctua fans in my PC, none younger than 8 years, most older. Periodic cleaning is needed to reduce noise and keep efficiency up. Otherwise completely dependable. I may refit my D14 with new Noctua black turbine CPU fans as they are very groovy looking but it's not needed..

That thing is a legend, not as popular as the 212 EVO but more powerful.

I'm so glad this video exists, when I saw this cooler in the other video, this is all I ever wanted out of it. Cheers, fam.

It performs awesome, I just pulled my 2010 D14 out of my old gaming rig and put it into my brand new build. As for fan quality, My rig was running around the clock for a decade, almost never shut off and not a single one of my 6 Noctua fans have failed as of yet.

Dont even need to watch, lemme guess, just fine. Thats why I own 3 D15s at the moment.

I'm rocking a D14 in my system. It did an excellent job cooling my old i7-8700, and it's also doing a great job of keeping my 3700x nice and cool. I'll definitely be using this cooler for years to come!

I'm still using my Noctua D14 from 2010! Great cooler.

Never been so early. Thanks for the regular content! Great vid as always!

Still rocking this beast cooler and am planning on keeping it when I upgrade in the future. Amazing thing is, you can contact Noctua with a picture and timestamp of your cooler (or receipt if you still have it) and a receipt for a new platform you bought that has a different socket and they will send you mounting brackets FOR FREE. I'm so glad I went with this giant brick instead of an AIO, because that pump would have been dead for sure, but this monster was cooling my 2500K back in 2011, it's cooling my 3770K still and will cool whatever I get in the future, probably more than 1 upgrade as well! Investing into a good air cooler is the best decision you can make if you're a budget oriented gamer.

The D14 is still a rock solid cooler, Noctua knew what they were doing when they designed it

I've had my nh-d14 for around 8 years now, so good and reliable! Still using the original fans no problems at all

Still rocking my nh-D14 in 2020, fans and all! It has been through a few builds and its ready to move onto my next Ryzen build. Noctua is an awesome company. They've sent me mounting kits in the past free of charge, and are sending me a new AM4 mounting kit right now. Noctua coolers are great investment in the long run.

Cool Video ! I STILL LOVE MY NH-D15 ! Still Running Like Clock Work 4-5 Years Later !

Have a 12p SE about 11 yo - bought for a x58. Currently it's on a 5600x with a new adapter for am4 and a brand new Noctua 12cm fan with PWM. Guess what?! Never goes above 65 Celsius. :) Absolutely unbelievable. Kudos to Noctua.

I use D14 today on my 9700k. Used it since 3770k and 7700k era. Is a great cooler!

I cleaned one of these in the Dishwasher, worked perfectly!

I'm gonna guess that, if taken care of, metal should be as good as it was in terms of thermal performance.

Still rocking mine D14. 7 years and counting. I am probably the only person in the world who had to replace the Noctua's mounting mechanism, but I don't see why it wouldn't last for decades to come.

I'm honestly more impressed with the fans than the heatsink. Still working after all that time is pretty amazing.

I’m still using an old evo 212 I’ve passed on through a few builds . Still using it on my 6700k at 4.6 stress test floats around 75

I'm really happy for this I love my D14. Long overdue, I upgraded in Feb to a Ryzen 7 from a Q6600. I had to get the AM4 kit to install my Noctua D14. I do find it a bit comical to have a giant fan and GPU on a tiny mATX board. Funny note, while putting on the D14, I didn't realize I was looking at D15 pictures and so I put the fans in the wrong order. Thankfully, the heat sink did note protrude my ram slots. Great video wished it came out earlier in Feb. Thanks man!

Not first, but still happy to get a good ol' YES video before bed! 🙌🙌

Good one Bryan as usual

I bought a Noctua NH-U9B second hand for my mAtx build and it's been great. They make good, long lasting products.

Iconic cooler,had them for years,never let me down-Untill I got the 9900ks and spun it up to a simply unbelievale 5.38Ghz@1.37V(Guess I won the lottery).Had to grab a 360 kraken AIO and it keeps it under 100c(just).

I didn't see the link for the video what one was it. Love this kind of video your still my go-to channel for tips and my next upgrades

God i hate high profile memory, leave it to corsair to make RGB ram even more of a PiA to deal with.

*Noctua NH-D14 user here!* Still running this cooler after TEN YEARS solid. Still working perfect! Noctua gave me a free AM4 adapter so now it's cooling my R9-3900x (12-core) CPU. At 20degC ambient I can run all cores at 4.275GHz at just under 75degC (though AVX in P95 will crash my system but everything I actually use is stable including Handbrake for which I run TWO instances so I can hit 100% CPU usage as my 1080p encodes otherwise max out the core usage to around 80% or so).

I am still using my noctua nh-u12p that I bought new for my x58 system in 2010. Now its doing the business on a Ryzen 2600x. Does a GREAT job!

Looks like I'll be reusing mine in my next build!

Noctua for the win!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Rockin a D15 here for 3 years!)

My old nhd 14, was the first cooler i bought, and it's still going strong. And with 2 semi dead fans, it still keeps a lightly oc'ed 6700k cool.

Blows air since " *year model* "

Had my NH-D14 PWM model for like, 5-6 years - Still as quiet and as cool as the first day I installed it

The D14 still is a great option only need to change that old fans and you see the temperatures going down, im using this whit 2 grand flex PWM 2400RPM and still kickling

I've had one of these bad boys since they came out, and apart from the insane size factor and problems it has caused with some other components, it has been absolutely amazing. When I bought it at a suggestion of a review, I had no idea what a quality device it was compared to other coolers, until I was considering upgrading it a few years ago. All these newer sexier solutions I was wanting to upgrade to, just didn't seem worth it at all. Eventually a few years later, I did get a water-cooled system for my newest computer, and left the D14 mounted into my older rig due to mounting issues (the same memory spacing issue visible here), but tbh. the D14 properly setup was way better than this current liquid cooled one.

I like these short informative videos.

Thermaltake HR Macho Rev. A, rocking my rig since 2013! (Love it).

Get funky....love that James Brownesque music during the setup

Talk about price/performance for Bryan's underwear. First he wears them until holes appear AND THEN for some Tech Yes Lovin' ;)

How is Dad Man? Time to go full Bogan and also time to let Dad Man make some calls. That would be hilarious.

Have both the D14 and D15 and they are solid. If you have dust filtration there is almost no maintenance except changing the thermal paste every few years.

whats really amazing to me is the heatpipes held on to their internal liquid for that long, i think the sheer fact that it stayed under that 110c limit is proof enough to show that noctuas heatpipes do not dry out over time like many others do.

I picked one of these up on the used market for $40 YEARS ago... it's been through about 3 or more builds. It currently sits on my 8700k in my ITX enthoo evolv. I believe she runs at 5ghz no problem.

At least in the southern hemisphere at the moment we can 'quarantine' ourselves in nice weather and good internet while living at home- just shows that having a PC is more versatile than only a game console to while away the days and nights...

I'm still using CM 212+ i purchased 9 years ago. With a better fan though! Fins+heatpipes design is so good that it's not going anywhere any time soon. Little to no point of upgrading if it works.

Been using Noctua Coolers for nearly a decade now. Until recently they were purchased new, but this time I watched eBay and lucked on to an NH-U12Sfor about $45 shipped/ The owner had purchase new and used for a few months, then replaced it. The cooler and fan looked new, and it had all the parts. So I saved about $20 for a slightly used Noctua and am using it on a Ryzen 5 3600X system. Does well for my needs and can always set it up as push-pull if my needs change. Anyway, really enjoyed the video!

Noctua provided me (and everyone else) a free AM4 upgrade kit for NH-D15. Best coolers/fans, never will I bother again with any other manufacturer.

I bought a used dark Rock pro 4 on Amazon last year, saved about 10-20$ and works just about new. It's super quiet. And seeing this last 10 years. I might not have to upgrade for a long time

I first used my D14 to cool my 4690k in 2014. The same D14 is now cooling my 3600.

My beQuiet! Dark Rock C1 Advanced is already 8 years old and runs absolutely fine.

On that build, I would have no problem just trimming off a few of the fins over the ram so you can clear it without touching, Not going to hurt the cooler or decrease the cooling ability.

Still rocks as hell on my 9900k at all core 5ghz at 55c at full load🙂

One of my PC's whih I built in 2011 is still rockin' a D14, with zero issues 9 years later.

I bought a used be quiet dark rock 4 off eBay for $25 USD shipped. Blew me away !!! Ryzen 7 2700X overclocks were smooth as a breeze

I currently have this cooler. I bought it last year because I started my first build with LGA775 and the D14 supports it :) I have it on a 9600k right now and it does wonders. Delidded and Lapped @ 5.0core and 4.8uncore 1.415V - LM on both sides. :)

I have this cooler. Excellent.

I've got a beaten up old NH-D14 in my rig, I upgraded the fans to the A15 PWM fans from the D15 and Noctua sent me the mounting hardware free of charge dispite the fact that I literally got it from a scrap heap and I was open about that with them lol unrivalled customer service 👍

Bought one of these off ebay for $30 a few years back. Then added some black chromax fans for another $30 so $60 in. Noctua also sent me a free upgrade kit to AM4 which was really cool. Keeps my 3800x at under 75c even in my oven of a gaming room.

I was shocked... i expected it to be within ~4 degrees of the D15. Maybe the older fans are letting it down. D14's are usually pretty close to the 15's(12 degrees hotter is really bad). I bet a 212 EVO/LED wouldn't be much hotter than that D14.

Noctua make dayum good stuff.

I'm still using my Noctua NH-U12S that I bought in 2015. I first had it on the FX-8350 I had back then and it's currently sitting on a Ryzen 5 2600 keeping it nice and frosty. Noctua coolers can be a bit expensive, but they're definitely worth it considering the high quality and generous amount of hardware they come with.

I always use old underwear to clean stuff! I do a lot of stuff in my garage and it helps so much!!

Still using my d14 from like 8 years ago, I have it installed on my 9600k and it performs perfectly fine, even with overclock, I got 2 noctua 120mm pwm chromax fans though so that it looks better, got them open box for a great deal.

I just got a d15 and I absolutely love this thing its keeping my ryzen 3800x at a cool crisp 30 C under load 50-55 C using there thermal paste too. Sometimes depending on what i'm playing I see it hit near 60 C

Interesting! I'm using a D14 from 2011 and have been woundering if the years had done anything to it. But as I suspected, it'll hold up another 10 years! Well spent money indeed!

Love my d15 and it's worth every penny.

I've bought two D14s off Gumtree for $50 each before and they are great, I have since put three fans on both with 3 industrial on one

*NOCTU NH-D14 user Part 2* When I upgraded to an AM4 system I installed the STOCK R9-3900x cooler as I waited for the AM4 adapter from Noctua. I used the Asus DIP5 software in the Asus AI Suite 3 to optimize the CPU performance and fan speed profile. I didn't use PBO or whatever. It did a seemingly great job as it would TEST the voltages at various frequencies. And it found the MINIMUM RPM's to keep the fans going... BUT.. BUT... The damn stock cooler was constantly ramping up and down as well as making an annoying, whiny motor noise. NOTHING I could do would fix this. When I replaced it with the NH-D14 the same thing happened but it was far less obvious... I finally ended up setting the NH-D14 fans to 30% until 60degC which avoids most of the spikes (even at less than 10% usage) while being more or less silent... I also found that the FRONT CASE FANS had rapidly diminishing effectiveness. Anything above 600RPM makes very little different even under heavy load. I ended up putting them to about 300RPM and ramping up at 60degC as well but to a maximum of 600RPM. So the optimal fan config I found not counting my graphics card is for the PSU fan to be completely OFF (ECO MODE) and it never comes on, the front case fans are 300RPM then ramp up between 60degC and 75degC to 600RPM, and finally the CPU fans sit at about 300RPM ramping from 60degC to 75degC to about 700RPM then jumps up to 100% fan speed above 75degC to avoid CPU crashing).

LOL using your old underwear to rub down the PC parts gives a whole new meaning to "Tech Yes Lovin" lol

For my last build, i had a first gen AMD apu, (not zen based) and bought a used alpine 64 cooler for it. I now have a ryzen 5 2600 and still have that same cooler for it. Its still works great.

love hearing that ''TechYESCity'' theme at around 2min mark

I got a HUGE radial air cooler with one of my AMD boards my buddy traded me into years ago. It had a 120 fan mounted in the middle and the fins were light blue all the way up around the fan. It was dead quiet and cooled that chip much better than the stock coolers did. When I upgraded to the i7980 I tried to use it but didn't have the mount it needed so put it back on the old board. Not sure if I still have it because most of my boxes use the Cooler Master Hyper 212 of one version or another these days. You can buy those dirt cheap on sale or as perfect refurbs these days and they work excellent and are quiet. I'll use anything I can get that is used and cheap or free and works well. I still have a original Stacker tower case holding my win7 box. Quiet, has wheels, and tons of old school room, just no external usb3 ports.

That cooler looks... Sharp :D

I still use a D14! In my ITX rig slapped ontop if my 4.6ghz 4790k and keeps that puppy under 80c so it's definitely a cooler worth using

Definitely a greaty cooler. I have two Noctua coolers (NH-C14 and NH-U12S) that I've used for several years without any problems. When I put together my 3900X build a few months ago I opted for another Noctua cooler, the NH-D15 Chromax Black. It also has the slightly cut bottoms to reduce problems with high profile RAM. In addition to being able to adjust the fan placement like on the DH-14 in the video. It also came with the Linus Tech Tips orange highlights(rubber corners) on the fans, which I am using.

Still have a D14 on my i7 990X. Perfect setup for me. Idle at 20-30 degrees across the 6 cores, and loaded up (@ stock) no higher than 45-50 degrees. Plenty of headroom for an overclock - when I learn how to, and get brave enough! Lol

I use my d14 for 10 years now ! First on a phenom II X6 and from there in any system i have owend a i7 3770k / i7 4790k / i7 7700 k and now on my 9700 k ! The only Thing i have changed are the Fans i use the Fans from the d15 with new clamps . And i still Love my d14 !

Bought one in at the start of 2011 and still using it nearly 12 years later with the original fans. Bought it for a 2600K, now it's on a 9700K.

Come on mate, we all know you do Tech Yes Loving going commando and put those undies back on afterwards. XD Theres no shame... ;)

I found my best deal of the year just after Christmas: i7-4770k, 16GB DDR3, Z87X-UDH3H-CF, Define R4 case AND this Noctua cooler for 100NZD. Great performance! But it is tricky to reach those memory modules.

I just replaced R5 2600 stock cooler with NH U9S (92mm) fan and it is absolutely silent and cools the CPU better and I can only hear the air hitting the fan. And I'm happy happy happy 😎

Great video mate. Have been using Noctua since 2009, and have never had a fan go on me. The coolers themselves obviously work forever, assuming they are cleaned and maintained with a spray similar to what you used in this video. I did have one fan become a tad noisier (at full speed).. I don't recommend running 3 pin fans flat out all the time. Some motherboards are able to adjust 3 pin fan speeds, using a program like Speedfan. Or Argus Monitor. But yeah.. that fan got relegated to hard drive cage duty (I max it out at 900rpm) and it's still working great. The full speed CPU fans take the most load, so even rotating them around after a few years could be helpful (if you also use noctua for case fans). These days with PWM fans.. the adjustment of their speed is less of an issue. But I also recommend using a fan controller (that can adjust speeds via Windows) over using a preset fan controller that comes with the case. But I guess that is a preference issue. I prefer quiet systems and it also helps that it can reduce the wear and tear on the fans a little bit.

still use it until now..cooled X5680 @4.4Ghz with max temp 70C. and still ok for cooling Ryzen 3600@4.5Ghz. The key to this cooler, is low profile RAM :D

I just got the FREE mounting hardware upgrade kit from Noctua for my D-14 that has been used on an overclocked FX-8350 Black Edition (overclocked to 4.5GHz) since that CPU came out. It is now used on a Ryzen 3600X with zero issues. PWM fans aren't THAT important as my Motherboard supports fan profile tuning via voltage adjustment as well as PWM.

Use old underwear with some TechYesLovin' Somehow that sounds a bit weird Bryan. I bough one of those coolers new recently for an i7 7700k. Very good cooler! What a bargain! Cheers, Mon from Brisbane

Hope you all saw that Tech yes citizens. Because that right there was price performance pulling your trousers down and smacking you real hard on the backside. Big up Yesman loving the channel even more ❤️💯😎

Are you cheating on the Snowman? :) Good video mate, thanks!

I still use my Noctua NH-C12P SE14 (purchased Oct 2013) on my 3600X based server. Noctua send me a free kit to convert it to AM4, and it is just continue doing its thing. What I really like about the NH-C12P is how it both cools the cpu, but also provides a lot of air to the heatsinks around the cpu socket, while also blowing air over the ram. It might not be needed to cool that too, but for a 24/7 system with limited flow through the case, it is nice when every little bit of that air is used.

I bought an used noctua nh-d15 it came bent but it still works (I bend it back) and it cooles my r7 1700 at 1.4v like a charm

Someone is just now noticing the underwear. The yes man has been using that underwear for like years now, I just thought it was one of those things we don't talk about.