Noctua NH-L9x65 Low Profile Heatsink Review @ Frostytec

If you are looking for a low profile cooler that actually can handle some heat the L9x65 is one to look at.  I have this heatsink in the Hardware Asylum Podcast machine and so far it is working great.

Noctua's low profile NH-L9x65 heatsink stands just 64mm tall and has a very compact footprint of only 95x95mm. The NH-L9x65 is designed to cool some fairly intensive Intel sockets, along with the full spectrum of AMD processors and APUs. Compact CPU coolers can be a little tricky to install, but Noctua long ago laid down the framework of an excellent motherboard mounting system,, so the NH-L9x65 is a breeze to work with.

the L9x65 does have some heat limitations and cannot handle CPUs over 85w.  Basically this means you can run an LGA115x at stock speeds and nothing from the LGA2011 camp.  In the AMD world, pretty much anything FM2+ based.

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