Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by T-A 295 days ago
> Noctua does not use TDP for their heatsinks and instead have CPU compatibility charts.

Reviewers and sellers do, though. Here are a few more: [1][2][3][4]

The highest rating is from [1], which says

You cannot access the TDP guide from here, but we will tell you that it displays 140W TDP; however, it also says you can overclock that to closer to 160W or 180W TDP overall.

AVADirect advertises it as good for 115W [4].

It also beggars belief that a single 92mm fan would suffice to cool a 9950X, when the best 120 and 140 mm air coolers just barely reach 240W [5]. The only Noctua in that review, the 140mm NH-D15S, gets to 233W.

> They say it's fine, with "medium turbo/overclocking headroom"

Hopefully just an innocent mistake...

[1] https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7038/noctua-nh-u9s-cpu-coo...

[2] https://www.hardwareslave.com/reviews/cooling/noctua-nh-u9s-...

[3] https://www.frostytech.com/articles/2781/index.html

[4] https://www.avadirect.com/NH-U9S-chromax-black-125mm-Height-...

[5] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/air-cooling/therm...