Noctua NH-L9i Low Profile CPU Cooler Review
Ryan Martin / 12 years ago
Stock temperatures aren’t going to blow your mind but this performance is miles better than a stock cooler and it does that in a ridiculously small form factor so these results are good.
Quite frankly I expected the Noctua NH-L9i to fail this test – and by fail I mean temperatures in the 90s which would lead to throttling of the processor. It specifically says on the Noctua website – 65W TDPs only with no overclocking. Yet we took a 77W i5 3570K and pushed it to 4.5GHz at 1.3 volts and the temperatures held in the low 80s. This is an absolutely fantastic result and I am truly gob-smacked.
