Noctua NH-U9S

Very quiet and high performance. As BIFL as you can get for PC parts.

I applied this fan to my DELL G5 Gaming PC (2021) Connecting it was a bit of a puzzle on the corresponding motherboard because the necessary screws for this specific combination are missing. It concerns the M3 20 mm screw of which you need 4. After I found this at the Gamma (electricity department), connecting with the manual was a piece of cake.

There are various advice on how best to apply the thermal paste to the processor, but the rule of thumb should be, just not too much! Drip paste on the processor, stick the fan on it, then carefully pull it straight up and off again and see if the glue is well distributed, if not, spread it carefully or clean it with a brush. a cotton swab.

The package also comes with an extra connection cable for connecting an extra fan by means of a. a coupler. A cable is also included for those who want to reduce the noise even further by means of a sound system. the noise reduction cable.

All in all, for the price quality ratio, an excellent fan for both the 3 and 4 pin motherboards. (screw points on the motherboard)

I have it built into a Dell G5 Desktop. The standard cooler that Dell supplies is not able to sufficiently cool the processor under load. With this noctua cooler the temperatures have dropped by 25% to acceptable levels. I do find that the color scheme of the fan is not very attractive. Fortunately, you can't see the fan in my housing, otherwise I would have opted for a black one.

One more note, if you can fit a bigger cooler, do it! This cooler is fine if you have limited space in your housing. But for the same money you can buy larger coolers with a better cooling capacity.