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I'm not surprised you were disappointed, that's quite a huge step down in cooling performance!However, if your looking for a case of this size then CPU cooler height becomes an important factor and of the sub 70mm coolers available on the market the L12S is one of the best, possibly only bettered by the new Scythe Big Shuriken 3 (not tested it yet).The L12S also has 2 more benefits over standard downdraft coolers which help in cases that have vents directly above the cooler. The fan is under the cooler and by default is set to push air up through the heatsink, firstly this eliminates fan turbulence noise compared to coolers with the fan on top of the cooler pulling in air through vents, secondly the cooler is pushing the warm exhaust air directly out the case through the vents thus reducing the number 1 issue of SFF cases being heat re-circulation.I think what Im trying to say is that the Noctua is almost the perfectly designed cooler for this type of case layout!
I'm not surprised you were disappointed, that's quite a huge step down in cooling performance!
However, if your looking for a case of this size then CPU cooler height becomes an important factor and of the sub 70mm coolers available on the market the L12S is one of the best, possibly only bettered by the new Scythe Big Shuriken 3 (not tested it yet).
The L12S also has 2 more benefits over standard downdraft coolers which help in cases that have vents directly above the cooler. The fan is under the cooler and by default is set to push air up through the heatsink, firstly this eliminates fan turbulence noise compared to coolers with the fan on top of the cooler pulling in air through vents, secondly the cooler is pushing the warm exhaust air directly out the case through the vents thus reducing the number 1 issue of SFF cases being heat re-circulation.
I think what Im trying to say is that the Noctua is almost the perfectly designed cooler for this type of case layout!
