Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black, Dual-Tower CPU cooler (140mm, Black)
chromax.black design
The NH-D15 chromax.black is black from head to toe: Featuring a black coated heatsink, black fans with black anti-vibration-pads, black fan clips and black mounting parts, it’s right at home in all-black builds and easy to integrate with other colour schemes.
Expensive, but the best air cooler you can buy I am not a fan of AIO due to more points of failure. I’ve owned the Noctua D14 previously, but this is clearly superior. Better temperatures, and is very quiet under regular use. Cannot be beaten.
Amazing cooler! A sick cooler I bought for my i5 13600KF. Its alot more beefy than the picture portray it to be or thats just me. High quality product that comes with amazing accessories for itself!
efficient cooler, a bit tricky to install bulky heatsink with 2 fans, will keep your processor cool but it is MASSIVE, I had to move a fan to the back of it because it was too big and got blocked by 2 of my RAM cards
Cool This is one massive cooler!
Its quite bulky but once in place it’s easy to attach to the motherboard and the fan cables are long enough to reach headers in most places on the biggest of boards.
Keeping my 5950x very cold.
An excellent choice for air cooling I got this after my AIO died. While it comes with all of the problems which come with having a big ol’ cooler bolted to your CPU (RAM clearance, harder to route cables e.t.c.), it’s extremely effective. I’m getting idle temps around 38-45c.
Perfect for the job This is paired with the Ryzen 9 5950x and keeps it cool at as low as 40 and lower in standby and when gaming at high maxed out graphics it hits around 60 max.
It also keeps my cpu cool when using it for extremely intensive workloads in designing modelling and keeps things cool with intense tasks on unreal engine 4.2
The best cooler for the money Buy this you won’t regret it. It’s the best cooler for the money. It’s not pretty but it does cool your pc like anything else, and it’s quiet. I’ve had a Lian Li Galahad for 2 years before it shat itself and it was very noisy and inefficient.
The best cooler for the money Buy this you won’t regret it. It’s the best cooler for the money. It’s not pretty but it does cool your pc like anything else, and it’s quiet. I’ve had a Lian Li Galahad for 2 years before it shat itself and it was very noisy and inefficient.
The bes What else is there to say about the best air cooler on the market?
It’s a bit pricey but it performs exceptionally. My only concern is the weight of it hanging off the motherboard but hasn’t broken it/fallen off ye
Lower temps then AIO I was hesitant to go back to ‘ugly’ air coolers after using NZXT’s kraken AIO for a couple of years.
After upgrading to a 7700x, I was disappointed in the AIO performance. Idle was anywhere between 42 and 45, while gaming temps were hitting high 60s – mid 70s. Not too bad you may think, but the AIO was also quite loud.
Having switched to this, I can honestly say wow. Idle is sitting at 38 and gaming temps barely hit 70. It also looks great, which I know isn’t important functionally but still, that’s good for me.
Also, there was a very small patch of moisture on my motherboard near the CPU socket when I removed the AIO. I don’t know if it was coolant or thermal pad grease, but glad to have made the change.
The fans are quiet and the cooler was very easy to install.
All this rambling to say get it! You don’t be disappointed.
Easy to Install, Amazing at Cooling, Big Chungus I’m so glad I bought this, because my last cooler was loud and just wasn’t cooling down my CPU fast enough. Ever since I switched to this, not only was it easy to mount in the PC, but it has bee incredibly quiet compared to my Case Fans!
Honestly, well worth the price if you’re looking for a really good cooler for your AMD CPU
The Best Cooler on the Marke It was very clear and easy to mount to the motherboard, my only wish is that the ” chose your mounting position ” instruction came before the ” how to mount ” intstruction. Would have saved me some time.
beyond that, its so quiet you’d think it wasnt running at all, but its so good my pc doesnt go above 40 degree’s so far, and im running one of intels hottest cpu’s.
Works very well Bought to use with AMD Ryzen 3900X 12-core 105-watt CPU and Fractal Design Define-7 case.
Effectively silent when CPU is idle. Noticable under full load when encoding video, but stilla big improvement over AMD’s stock cooler – less noise, lower temperatures, and higher boost clocks.
Would heartily reccommend.
KEEPS AN OVER-CLOCKED INTEL 16 Core i7 13700K CPU COOL I’ve used Noctua fans on previous PC builds. The fans in my old Windows 7 PC were still working properly after near 12 years of heavy operation.
The NH-D15 is large and helps fill the medium sized PC case I chose. It is straightforward to instal if the instructions are followed carefully.
This CPU cooler kit is almost completely silent.
I would recommend, if you choose this cooler, fitting its mounting plate that is located beneath the motherboard before installing the motherboard in the PC case.
Epic cooling! I bought this to replace an AIO liquid cooler that was noisy and inefficient. The Noctua delivers impressive temps on my overclocked Intel 11700K, around 28 degrees C at idle and rarely exceeding 60 under load. It’s virtually silent except when pushed hard, and build quality is pure class, with installation a doddle.
I love the way it looks – sleek and understated – but it is huge, so make sure you’ve got adequate clearance in your case.
Paired with 5800X3D Didn’t know what to expect when I got this cooler and the cpu. However I’ve never seen my 5800X3D higher than 73c. Synthetic benchmarks will hit the high 80’s but these are unrealistic for most, if not all real life applications. For gaming it is perfect! 10/10
Does a really good job of quietly cooling your CPU, but... …it’s so huge it can block the entire airflow through your system. Also, I found that the bottom fins sat too close to the backplane of my (then) GTX 1080Ti, causing it to gain temperature that was previously wicked away by the case’s front-to-back airflow. Also, the left-side fan was only an inch or so away from my case’s rear exhaust fan, which wasn’t ideal. Basically, if you have a HUGE case, this will be an ideal choice.
The Apex of Air Cooling Great build quality, quite possibly the best air cooling setup you can get. Noctua also support their products far longer than most, by supplying mounting kits to allow their older coolers to be used for newer socket types, so probably one of the few components that will be reusable in your future pc builds. Fan quality is also second to none, very quiet even at high rpm and I have never had one of these fail even after many years of heavy use. Highly recommended.
Worthwhile Upgrade Very good CPU fan. Pretty easy to install and a very nice upgrade to keep your CPU cool. Not very noisy(some but to be fair its a beast).
Simply Undefeated Air Cooler King! When it comes to cooling, there’s no one like Noctua.
They offer incredible performance for the price with incredibly silent acoustics.
The mounting system was a pleasure to use compared to other competitors which aren’t as user friendly. This was simply a breeze!
Size wise, this cooler is HUGE! But it looks hella cool in your finished build. As long as you make sure that you can enough clearance (in my NZXT H440i with Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro Ram which is quite tall, it only about 0.2mm clearance with the glass panel so a extremely tight squeeze if you’re planning on using both fans supplied).
I am very pleased that Noctua has chosen to make a Chromax Black edition as I personally have always been put off by their brown design, so if it wasn’t for this I would of never got it!
This incredible cooler has killer looks, with killer performance that beats many AIO’s which in itself doesn’t have the risks of a failing water cooler.
For those stuck being choosing AIO and Air Cooling, I would go with Air as you don’t have the risk of water coolers and failure rates.
If you’ve got the money and space in your case, Noctua is simply the way to go!
It's one of the best air coolers if not the best. I am using it will a Ryzen 5 7600x, pretty over kill but not seen temps higher than 55c in real world and 75c in synthetic loads even with an over clocked CPU with I would say an estimate tdp of 120w.
The mounting can be abit fiddly but generally very easy to put on.
The pictures are from afew weeks back when I first built my system before testing.
Fantastic cooler with easy mounting system Fantastic cooler with easy mounting.
I recently upgraded my rig to an am5 build and was sceptical on air cooling after being with liquid for so long. But it cools my r9 7900x brilliantly, idle temps of between 47-52 degrees and no throttling whatsoever on stress testing. Mounting is the easiest I have ever had with a cooler, and considering the bulk of thing that came as a surprise.
Before ordering I would advise going to the noctua website and checking compatibility with your board and ram, as clearance can be an issue especially with rgb ram.
12 gen - needs a new bracke You may need to contact noctua for the 12th gen bracket if yours doesn’t have it. But it’s super handy and fast to sort that part out. Other than that, it is a very nice cooler that is able to spread a lot of the heat!
The best Air CPU coole Took my peak high load temps of over 85 degrees with the stock Wraith cooler down to 65 degrees max. Can’t ask for any more than that! Just make sure you have room in your case, it’s a beast!
One hella big heatsinks! This maybe the biggest heatsink I seen in my build, it definitely does the job it needs to do and can say it definitely works as it intents for the price of this cooler.
Great coole This is a great cooler. I use it for my Ryzen 5 3600. I run massive parallel computations, all CPU cores maxed out. I had 45C idle CPU temperature with the stock cooler, now it is 35-38C. CPU was running 85C with the stock cooler on full load, with this cooler it is 65-70C. The fan is quiet and has a low RPM.
I installed only 1 fan, as I can not fit the other fan due to the RAM module, but this cooler works nice with 1 fan only as per instructions. Installation is a bit tedious, due to the huge size of the cooler.
Big coole Big cooler which performs brilliantly, easy to install ;fans are little fiddly to clip on but once you figure it out it’s easy. Currently idling at around 30c, nice and quiet too.
Best fan coole Worth every penny – I previously had an AIO water cooling system that failed after 2 years. The Noctua NH-D15 was very easy to install, and the temperatures I’m getting, are just as good as when I had a brand new AIO (that was twice the price)
Quiet fans, beautiful construction, highly recommended!
Straight forward and simple... But the size ... OMG big a car radiator. Amazing performance from the cooler. Just expect it to be massive, but you easily adjust the second fa
Probably the best CPU cooler out on the market! Great product, keeps my Ryzen 9 5900X super cool (even when playing games) hitting a maximum of 76 degrees celsius!
Better then and aio Cooling performance is on par with an aio but this is much less noisy little tricky to install if like me you have massive hands and a smaller case but other then that it’s absolutely flawless will only be running noctua from now o
Cool temps, relatively easy install. Working great. My idle temps are slightly higher than when I was running an AIO (by about 5c) but my load temps are averaging 65c (5c lower than my old load temps).
Better or as good as a 360mm AIO If you want the best of the best when it comes to air coolers, look no further! I replaced my 360mm water cooler AIO with this and have seen better performance, without the pump wine!
Expensive, but the best air cooler you can buy
I am not a fan of AIO due to more points of failure. I’ve owned the Noctua D14 previously, but this is clearly superior. Better temperatures, and is very quiet under regular use. Cannot be beaten.
Downsides? Very expensive for what it is.
Amazing cooler!
A sick cooler I bought for my i5 13600KF. Its alot more beefy than the picture portray it to be or thats just me. High quality product that comes with amazing accessories for itself!
efficient cooler, a bit tricky to install
bulky heatsink with 2 fans, will keep your processor cool but it is MASSIVE, I had to move a fan to the back of it because it was too big and got blocked by 2 of my RAM cards
Cool
This is one massive cooler!
Its quite bulky but once in place it’s easy to attach to the motherboard and the fan cables are long enough to reach headers in most places on the biggest of boards.
Keeping my 5950x very cold.
5.0 out of 5 stars Looks great, but make sure it fits your case as it’s huge!
Got this for my new 5950x/RTX4090 build and it’s perfect!
An excellent choice for air cooling
I got this after my AIO died. While it comes with all of the problems which come with having a big ol’ cooler bolted to your CPU (RAM clearance, harder to route cables e.t.c.), it’s extremely effective. I’m getting idle temps around 38-45c.
This is paired with the Ryzen 9 5950x and keeps it cool at as low as 40 and lower in standby and when gaming at high maxed out graphics it hits around 60 max.
It also keeps my cpu cool when using it for extremely intensive workloads in designing modelling and keeps things cool with intense tasks on unreal engine 4.2
The best cooler for the money
Buy this you won’t regret it. It’s the best cooler for the money. It’s not pretty but it does cool your pc like anything else, and it’s quiet. I’ve had a Lian Li Galahad for 2 years before it shat itself and it was very noisy and inefficient.
The best cooler for the money
Buy this you won’t regret it. It’s the best cooler for the money. It’s not pretty but it does cool your pc like anything else, and it’s quiet. I’ve had a Lian Li Galahad for 2 years before it shat itself and it was very noisy and inefficient.
What else is there to say about the best air cooler on the market?
It’s a bit pricey but it performs exceptionally. My only concern is the weight of it hanging off the motherboard but hasn’t broken it/fallen off ye
I was hesitant to go back to ‘ugly’ air coolers after using NZXT’s kraken AIO for a couple of years.
After upgrading to a 7700x, I was disappointed in the AIO performance. Idle was anywhere between 42 and 45, while gaming temps were hitting high 60s – mid 70s. Not too bad you may think, but the AIO was also quite loud.
Having switched to this, I can honestly say wow. Idle is sitting at 38 and gaming temps barely hit 70. It also looks great, which I know isn’t important functionally but still, that’s good for me.
Also, there was a very small patch of moisture on my motherboard near the CPU socket when I removed the AIO. I don’t know if it was coolant or thermal pad grease, but glad to have made the change.
The fans are quiet and the cooler was very easy to install.
All this rambling to say get it! You don’t be disappointed.
Easy to Install, Amazing at Cooling, Big Chungus
I’m so glad I bought this, because my last cooler was loud and just wasn’t cooling down my CPU fast enough. Ever since I switched to this, not only was it easy to mount in the PC, but it has bee incredibly quiet compared to my Case Fans!
Honestly, well worth the price if you’re looking for a really good cooler for your AMD CPU
The Best Cooler on the Marke
It was very clear and easy to mount to the motherboard, my only wish is that the ” chose your mounting position ” instruction came before the ” how to mount ” intstruction. Would have saved me some time.
beyond that, its so quiet you’d think it wasnt running at all, but its so good my pc doesnt go above 40 degree’s so far, and im running one of intels hottest cpu’s.
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Cooling
Amazing cooling abilities. not seen temps higher than 45c on a 12th gen i7. Why they discontinued it I don’t know.
Works very well
Bought to use with AMD Ryzen 3900X 12-core 105-watt CPU and Fractal Design Define-7 case.
Effectively silent when CPU is idle. Noticable under full load when encoding video, but stilla big improvement over AMD’s stock cooler – less noise, lower temperatures, and higher boost clocks.
Would heartily reccommend.
KEEPS AN OVER-CLOCKED INTEL 16 Core i7 13700K CPU COOL
I’ve used Noctua fans on previous PC builds. The fans in my old Windows 7 PC were still working properly after near 12 years of heavy operation.
The NH-D15 is large and helps fill the medium sized PC case I chose. It is straightforward to instal if the instructions are followed carefully.
This CPU cooler kit is almost completely silent.
I would recommend, if you choose this cooler, fitting its mounting plate that is located beneath the motherboard before installing the motherboard in the PC case.
Epic cooling!
I bought this to replace an AIO liquid cooler that was noisy and inefficient. The Noctua delivers impressive temps on my overclocked Intel 11700K, around 28 degrees C at idle and rarely exceeding 60 under load. It’s virtually silent except when pushed hard, and build quality is pure class, with installation a doddle.
I love the way it looks – sleek and understated – but it is huge, so make sure you’ve got adequate clearance in your case.
Paired with 5800X3D
Didn’t know what to expect when I got this cooler and the cpu. However I’ve never seen my 5800X3D higher than 73c. Synthetic benchmarks will hit the high 80’s but these are unrealistic for most, if not all real life applications. For gaming it is perfect! 10/10
Perfect Coole
Perfect cooling and super quiet. Came with the LGA1700 bracket.
Great coole
Amazing cooling performance on the new 13th gen Intel processor, which are known to run a bit ho
Does a really good job of quietly cooling your CPU, but...
…it’s so huge it can block the entire airflow through your system. Also, I found that the bottom fins sat too close to the backplane of my (then) GTX 1080Ti, causing it to gain temperature that was previously wicked away by the case’s front-to-back airflow. Also, the left-side fan was only an inch or so away from my case’s rear exhaust fan, which wasn’t ideal. Basically, if you have a HUGE case, this will be an ideal choice.
Noctua Coole
Love the whole design and how well cool it keeps the system, well worth the money and best cooler i ever brough
The Apex of Air Cooling
Great build quality, quite possibly the best air cooling setup you can get. Noctua also support their products far longer than most, by supplying mounting kits to allow their older coolers to be used for newer socket types, so probably one of the few components that will be reusable in your future pc builds. Fan quality is also second to none, very quiet even at high rpm and I have never had one of these fail even after many years of heavy use. Highly recommended.
Worthwhile Upgrade
Very good CPU fan. Pretty easy to install and a very nice upgrade to keep your CPU cool. Not very noisy(some but to be fair its a beast).
As advertised. Best of the best.
Comes with Intel and AMD mounts, with all screws and standoffs. 2 fans included. Comes with Noctua thermal paste.
It is the best air cooler I’ve tried. Reasonably quiet but not the quietest (BeQuiet is quieter), but you can adjust the fan curves based on workload.
Not much else to say, except that it looks fantastic in black!
When it comes to cooling, there’s no one like Noctua.
They offer incredible performance for the price with incredibly silent acoustics.
The mounting system was a pleasure to use compared to other competitors which aren’t as user friendly. This was simply a breeze!
Size wise, this cooler is HUGE! But it looks hella cool in your finished build. As long as you make sure that you can enough clearance (in my NZXT H440i with Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro Ram which is quite tall, it only about 0.2mm clearance with the glass panel so a extremely tight squeeze if you’re planning on using both fans supplied).
I am very pleased that Noctua has chosen to make a Chromax Black edition as I personally have always been put off by their brown design, so if it wasn’t for this I would of never got it!
This incredible cooler has killer looks, with killer performance that beats many AIO’s which in itself doesn’t have the risks of a failing water cooler.
For those stuck being choosing AIO and Air Cooling, I would go with Air as you don’t have the risk of water coolers and failure rates.
If you’ve got the money and space in your case, Noctua is simply the way to go!
I am using it will a Ryzen 5 7600x, pretty over kill but not seen temps higher than 55c in real world and 75c in synthetic loads even with an over clocked CPU with I would say an estimate tdp of 120w.
The mounting can be abit fiddly but generally very easy to put on.
The pictures are from afew weeks back when I first built my system before testing.
Fantastic cooler with easy mounting.
I recently upgraded my rig to an am5 build and was sceptical on air cooling after being with liquid for so long. But it cools my r9 7900x brilliantly, idle temps of between 47-52 degrees and no throttling whatsoever on stress testing. Mounting is the easiest I have ever had with a cooler, and considering the bulk of thing that came as a surprise.
Before ordering I would advise going to the noctua website and checking compatibility with your board and ram, as clearance can be an issue especially with rgb ram.
12 gen - needs a new bracke
You may need to contact noctua for the 12th gen bracket if yours doesn’t have it. But it’s super handy and fast to sort that part out. Other than that, it is a very nice cooler that is able to spread a lot of the heat!
The best Air CPU coole
Took my peak high load temps of over 85 degrees with the stock Wraith cooler down to 65 degrees max. Can’t ask for any more than that! Just make sure you have room in your case, it’s a beast!
One hella big heatsinks!
This maybe the biggest heatsink I seen in my build, it definitely does the job it needs to do and can say it definitely works as it intents for the price of this cooler.
Happy with it, 10/10
Great coole
This is a great cooler. I use it for my Ryzen 5 3600. I run massive parallel computations, all CPU cores maxed out. I had 45C idle CPU temperature with the stock cooler, now it is 35-38C. CPU was running 85C with the stock cooler on full load, with this cooler it is 65-70C. The fan is quiet and has a low RPM.
I installed only 1 fan, as I can not fit the other fan due to the RAM module, but this cooler works nice with 1 fan only as per instructions. Installation is a bit tedious, due to the huge size of the cooler.
Big coole
Big cooler which performs brilliantly, easy to install ;fans are little fiddly to clip on but once you figure it out it’s easy. Currently idling at around 30c, nice and quiet too.
Brilliant Coole
Really impressed with how cool my CPU is after installing this and there is hardly any noticeable noise
Impressive performance
Used to cool down i5 11600K overclock to 4.80Ghz well i can say that i’m impressed and is really quie
Best fan coole
Worth every penny – I previously had an AIO water cooling system that failed after 2 years. The Noctua NH-D15 was very easy to install, and the temperatures I’m getting, are just as good as when I had a brand new AIO (that was twice the price)
Quiet fans, beautiful construction, highly recommended!
Straight forward and simple... But the size ... OMG big a car radiator.
Amazing performance from the cooler. Just expect it to be massive, but you easily adjust the second fa
Probably the best CPU cooler out on the market!
Great product, keeps my Ryzen 9 5900X super cool (even when playing games) hitting a maximum of 76 degrees celsius!
Better then and aio
Cooling performance is on par with an aio but this is much less noisy little tricky to install if like me you have massive hands and a smaller case but other then that it’s absolutely flawless will only be running noctua from now o
Cool temps, relatively easy install.
Working great. My idle temps are slightly higher than when I was running an AIO (by about 5c) but my load temps are averaging 65c (5c lower than my old load temps).
Better or as good as a 360mm AIO
If you want the best of the best when it comes to air coolers, look no further! I replaced my 360mm water cooler AIO with this and have seen better performance, without the pump wine!