

A set of 4 metal thumb screws required for all Intel and AMD sockets.A set of 4 silver metal screw pillars required for all LGA 20xx sockets.A set of 4 black plastic spacers to stay between the motherboard and the front plates for LGA 115x sockets.Very solid black metal back plate required for all of the Intel 115X sockets.The standard Noctua NH-L12S accessories pack features: You see, I spent some time taking all of the accessories out of their packages, arranging them and taking some pictures but it was definitely time well spent.

And indeed all of the accessories were packed in labeled separate nylon bags according to their purpose and also described with text and pictures on the top of the brown accessories box. Since this product is part of Noctua’s portfolio we can expect only high quality, a lot of attention to detail and nothing less. I have no doubt that everything inside is absolutely flawless, so let’s proceed the article by checking the additional accessories provided with the cooler.


Typically for Noctua, by opening the package the first to notice was a big brown box made of recycled carton, holding all of the additional accessories needed for both Intel and AMD sockets plus several additions such as screwdriver and a Noctua badge.īy removing the accessories package I reached to the cooler itself placed inside additional carton formed as a bed and protecting the heat sink and the fan from every side. So, let’s leave it aside for now and proceed the article with checking the contents placed inside. While all other details regarding the product are described on all of the other sides of the carton package.Ī package which looks pretty nice but it is not the main focus in this review. On the front and top sides of the package there are the model name, a QR code, a basic description of the model and a glimpse of the full technical specification. The cooler itself arrived in the typical for the company pretty big and very rigid carton box in the standard white, black and dark brown colours forming the Noctua’s very distinctive colour scheme. After that I am going to check all of the features of the product and of course at the end of the article I will give the cooler some stress by letting it cool my AMD FX8350 processor. So let’s proceed with the article by digging inside the carton package and checking its contents. The cooler itself is a pretty small, very sleek and stylish looking product. Now I have in my hands its successor bearing the name Noctua NH-L12S, which promises a lot of improvements and definitely better performance. That also includes the low profile model Noctua NH-L12 designed for HTPC and small form factor PCs, which I was able to test and review about 5 years ago. For the past several years I’ve had the chance to test and review almost all Noctua CPU coolers and fans and all of them offered a wide range of technologies combined in a way to deliver amazing cooling performance.
