Noctua NH-U14S & NH-D9 Air Cooling For The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X

Written by Michael Larabel in Peripherals on 24 November 2023 at 03:30 PM EST. Page 3 of 4. 7 Comments.
7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Compression Rating. Noctua NH-D9 TR5-SP6 4U was the fastest.

The Threadripper 7980X was delivering consistent performance across all three tested cooling solutions across dozens of benchmarks conducted at Phoronix.

7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Decompression Rating. Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 was the fastest.

The Noctua air cooling performance was in great shape for this Threadripper 350 Watt processor.

Timed Godot Game Engine Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 was the fastest.
Timed Godot Game Engine Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 was the fastest.

All three cooling solutions were effective at lowering the CPu temperature during the brief idle moments between the repeated test runs.

Timed Linux Kernel Compilation benchmark with settings of Build: allmodconfig. NZXT Kraken 360 was the fastest.
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation benchmark with settings of Build: allmodconfig. NZXT Kraken 360 was the fastest.
Timed LLVM Compilation benchmark with settings of Build System: Ninja. Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 was the fastest.

Under various workloads the average Threadripper 7980X temperature tended to be in the 60~70 degree range with peaks up to the mid-80s, below the 95 degree rated maximum temperature.


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