As a further follow up to the Tom’s Hardware Noctua low profile cooler article, I decided to retest my Noctua L12 Ghost Edition (GE) with a variety of fan configurations on both an open test chassis as well as in a very small (5.9 liter) PC case. I used a Ryzen 7 5700G with integrated graphics...
I purchased the Thermalright SI100 CPU cooler and decided to compare its cooling performance against the Noctua L12 Ghost Edition both fitted with a variety of 120x25mm fans.
Without a fan mounted, the Thermalright SI-100 at 74.8mm, is 8.8mm taller than the Noctua L12 GE at 66mm. As a reminder...
I obtained the new small low profile IS-55 CPU cooler from ID-Cooling and have tested its cooling performance and compared it against two larger low profile coolers – the Thermalright AXP120-X67 and the Noctua L12 Ghost Edition.
The cooler is tiny – even smaller than I thought it would be from...