Noctua NH-L9i Low Profile CPU Cooler Review

Noctua really go to town on the quality of all the parts of their products – including the packaging. As much as it is really nice, packaging for most people falls into two categories – you think it should be as minimalist as possible to save costs and keep the product price down or you think they should put in the attention to detail to improve the overall buying experience. Unfortunately for Noctua I am the former, but I do appreciate the sentiment of the latter.

Noctua really are a global company, as the back of the box shows. The brief paragraph shows that this is a cooler for HTPCs and SFF systems based on the LGA 1155 socket. I already mentioned you’d be a fool to use high profile RAM with this CPU cooler, I also think that you’d probably struggle to see the benefit of this cooler if you used a full sized graphics card. A low profile/ half height graphics card would be more appropriate in my opinion – or you could just use Ivy Bridge Intel HD 4000 graphics as they are actually pretty decent for most things except gaming above 720p resolutions.