Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3, Quiet Server/Workstation High-End Tower CPU Cooler | 165mm Height, High-End Low-Noise Cooling, For AMD Threadripper/Epyc TR4/sTRX4/SP3/sWRX8, 140mm Fan, Rich Accessory Kit

This is my first time using a noctua cooler and I'm very impressed. Normally I go the water cooling route but as I was unable to get some of the parts I wanted I went with this as a stop gap as I needed a cooler and I'm so impressed with the cooling on the threadripper and the temps I'm getting using just one fan (I've not bought a second yet but looking at it) it may be a little longer before I rip it out to put it under water. The fan is silent compared to what I've previously used, its inaudible while idle and can only hear during load if I silence my speakers and listen for it.

I had an Enermax liqtech TR4 240mm water cooler which eventually got clogged up and the plate distorted, I bought this as a stand-in until I found another water cooler but I've decided to stick with it. It is absolutely silent, to the point that I was repeatedly checking the fan was running and checking temps for the first few days, it's quieter under full CPU load than the water cooler ever was even when new. Temps are good too. The only issue is the fan is big and tends to foul the tops of the RAM modules so you have to shuffle it up the cooler a bit to get it in and it then it fouls the tower side a bit. I took the window out of my case and flipped it inside out to get a few mm extra clearance which solved the problem but looks a bit rough.

I don't normally write reviews, but I was really impressed with this cooler. I brought it to replace a Corsair H100i V2 which I found noisy and not that cool. For ref. I'm runing this on an overclocked (4Ghz) 1950X with the optional/additional NF-A15 1200 RPM fan. The results were surprising, super quiet (compared to the H100i), and runs cooler. I do a lot of 4K video encoding, and running a 4K HEVC encode, maxing all 16 cores at 100% load for hours at a time and it runs at a constant 60-65 deg C. Great job Noctua, highly recommended - just make sure you've got a large case to accommodate this beast.

I bought this for a 7532. It's superb. It's so quiet I am almost regretting buying an AIO for my other rig.

Fits perfectly on an ASUS ROMED8-2T with an EPYC 7763, no thermal issues.

This is a very good product, it runs quiet and a lot better than the water cooled block which I had before that, which leaked and caused me lots of problems including overheating of the CPU but luckily did not damage it. The only one thing to check before you buy is compatibility. It's very large. In my system the Asus Graphics card was no longer able to fit into the Asus motherboard designated Graphics card slot after installation. It had to go into a lower slot with theoretical lower running speeds (x8 instead of x16). Great apart from that.

Does a great job

Worth spending the money to go Noctua for your Threadripper.

Sowas ist man gar nicht mehr gewohnt bei Computerteilen. Eine in lesbarer Grösse gedruckte und perfekt illustriert Anleitung in der der Einbau genau erklärt wird. Mir war die Wasserkühlung meines PCs kaputt gegangen und ich wollte wieder mit Luft kühlen. Und das tut es jetzt auch, und zwar leiser (!) als die Wasserkühlung war. Der Lüfter ist zwar nicht billig aber definitiv oberste Qualität. Die Laufruhe ist grossartig. Der Einbau war wirklich supereinfach und toll erklärt und alles was man braucht (inklusive Wärmeleitpaste und Imbus für die Schrauben)) ist beim Produkt dabei. Die Kühlleistung auf dem Threadripper 2950X ist Ok. Im idle ca. 41 Grad. Unter Vollast wenn alle 16 Kerne dauerhaft 100% rechnen ist die Temperatur allerdings auf 62 Grad, so dass ich mir noch den Zusatzlüfter NF-A15 dazu bestelle, der laut Rezension nochmal -5 Grad bringt. Nach ausgiebigem Gebrauch: die Laufruhe ist immer noch sensationell (wobei mein gesamter Tower auf leise getrimmt ist). Das System ist definitiv viel angenehmer als mit der vorher eingebauten Enermax Wasserkühlung (die ich leider niemandem empfehlen kann, die war nach noch nicht mal 3 Jahren defekt.) Update: gerade den Zusatzlüfter verbaut. Tipp: darauf achten in welche Richtung der Luftstrom im rechner fliessen muss und den Lüfter entsprechend der Richtung konfigurieren und einsetzen. Hatte ihn zuerst falsch rum eingesetzt weil kein Hinweis in der Anleitung dazu ist. Wenn alles richtig ist gibt es ungefähr die versprochene Kühlung um zusätzliche 5 Grad, bei mir sind es 4 Grad-- und das flüsterleise. Unter Vollast bleibt das System jetzt immer deutlich unter 60 Grad trotz Übertaktung. Im idle ist die Temperatur unter 40 Grad . Perfekt.

I did not want to deal with water cooling anymore and found the Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 to be one of the best options available for TR4 sockets. One month of usage and had no troubles with my 1920x.

I live in a hot place and so far using water cooling, I had to underclock my threadripper 3960x so as not to overheat it. Not anymore. The inbuilt thermal paste is also good enough. Really silent, great product 10/10. Note: Wear a glove while mounting, the fins are sharp, I nicked my hand on it.

As expected from Noctua products

I have a high-end Workstation (purchased in 2020) that has a Threadripper 3960x, 3080 FE GPU, m.2 SSD expander and 1600W power supply. When I bought the system, I really didn't consider the fans/ cooling because the cooling for the CPU was a ENERMAX solution which came with fans as well as the case a Lian Li Mesh Cool II and used those. This was the first desktop I've had since early 2000's and had been using laptops (workstations) for the past 8 years +/- since I graduated college/ grad school. Last week the ENERMAX cooler gave signs it was dying, had the pump ramped up to max and all fans to max and my CPU was still hot at 70-90C... Because I remember the attendant at Micro Center saying ENERMAX AIO had issues, but it was the only cooling solution in store that would be adequate with the CPU, I rolled the dice. It lasted me 3 yrs, I honesty thought it would have died earlier, so I wasn't caught off guard completely. So I decided to go all out with air coolers and found that the best was a Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3, Premium-Grade CPU Cooler for AMD sTRX4/TR4/SP3 (140mm, Brown) which brought me to research the Noctua NF-F12 iPPC 3000 PWM, Heavy Duty Cooling Fan, 4-Pin, 3000 RPM (120mm, Black) for the case as I wanted new and better ones that had no RGB. I considered the NF-F12 over the other Noctua alternatives for the sheer power, 3000 RPM and the volume of air it pushed just was un matched. I rather have the power and not needed than need it and not have it. So my biggest concern was that to keep all this hot hardware cool, all fans would have to run at high speeds and this would mean noise. To my delight after installing them, the entire system runs at 40C and below and the noise is not an issue as I can run these at 1k RPM and no real noise. I have 6 of these fans, 3 at the front (push-config - 800-1200 RPM +-300), 2 on top (push-config- 800-1200 RPM +-300) and 1 at the back (pull-config - 700-1000 RPM +-300) as well as having the NH-U14S with a 2x fans push-pull config 1500/1200 RPM. I probably get temps even further down if I tweak it further. But as it is... I'm very happy with the results in terms of both performance and noise levels. Yes if you run these at full 3000 RPM they are loud (not as bad as I feared either, but obviously loud) but the volume of air is also incredible. One little difference is because these are "industrial" the fans only come with 4 screws and that's it. I believe it was a good investment, specially because this machine is my daily driver for work (I'm a Data Scientist & Developer for SAS solutions). I got reliability and simplicity of air cooling as well as the brute power of massive air-flow if I need. I will definitely consider using Noctua cooling solutions on my next build when I decide to upgrade this machine sometime in the next couple of years.