I Do Naughty Things With Noctua's New Passive CPU Cooler...

**The Great Cooler Conundrum: A Tale of Thermal Triumph**

As we delve into the world of PC building and cooling, I find myself facing a peculiar problem - my cooler is lopsided, making it difficult to rely on gravity alone for decent thermal contact. While it's quite heavy, which may help with weight, I still need to secure it down somehow. The age-old question arises: is there really any other way to do this than zip ties?

As I examine the video memory and VRM, I'm surprised to find less cooling than I expected. I thought there would be little heatsinks and stuff, but alas, it's not quite that simple. I'll have a fan blowing on the PCB, which may help, and I might just thermal pad stick this GT City cooler to it like that - that'll make me feel better, even if it won't actually do anything.

My ingenious solution is to use a microphone stand to hold up the cooler, allowing me to see that it's leaning nicely against it. However, when looking at it down here, I don't think we have the best thermal contact going on. But, I've got quite a lot of thermal paste under there, and back there we have what is definitely the most important part - a GT 1030 heatsink just thermal padded to the VRAM.

So, let's power it up and see if anything interesting happens. Ah, look at that! We've got a video out, and it's slowly starting to put bits of load on the GPU, with temperatures climbing quite rapidly. I have a feeling the moment it loads into the game, it'll just be... sod.

Straight to 90 degrees Celsius, and immediately throttled down to 300 megahertz - uh, yeah, I don't think this is going very well. Yo, if I push it down, look at how quickly the temperatures drop! There's definitely a thermal contact issue here. Uh, I'm gonna have to rethink the mounting.

What I've done now is just kind of wedged a box between the motherboard and the heatsink, and that actually seems to make better contact. So, yeah, hopefully that works - let's try that again with the very high-tech box wedge fix! We've already dropped 20 degrees Celsius from this point last time, which is a good sign.

Oh look at that - it's actually running! It's quickly climbing to 90 degrees Celsius, but it's working again. I feel like our core frequency is slowly creeping down, but we're still getting a very similar frame rate. Like it's not really slowing the gaming performance down much.

I actually kind of want to push down on it again and see how much the temperatures drop. Yo, look at how the temperature drops when you push down on it! Oh, if I can mount this properly, it'll work so well!

Because the moment I let it go, it shoots back up into the 80s. Okay, so I've wedged the box in better and now I'm not touching it, and it's sitting at around 50 degrees Celsius. Ah-ha! That is the result I was looking for.

Hell yeah! Because now it's at the point where the cooler is going to start thermally saturating and then heat up from there because it's actually got proper contact now. Now after ages of driving around, we are still not over 70 degrees Celsius on the GPU, which is pretty crazy!

I didn't expect it to work this well, especially with the like the main fix being just wedging a box under it like that - that was all I needed for proper thermal contact! With that, it brings me to the end of another video. If you liked it, please do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one. And until the next video... bye!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennoctua finally launched their passive cpu cooler and on the box there's a sticker that says fanless cooling for high-end cpus and honestly i didn't know i could be this aroused by a sticker uh so what we're gonna do with this cooler today is yes see if it can cool cpus but then i'm gonna do some unholy things to it but before we get into that there's a sponsor for today's video today's video is sponsored by audible which is for all you busy bodies out there that don't actually have time to sit down and read a book and would much rather have someone read it to you with audible you can maintain your active lifestyle he says like a marketing loser while still being well read as an audible member you'll get one credit every month for any title in their entire premium selection i would recommend using your first credit on the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy narrated by stephen fry because who doesn't want steven fry tonguing their ears as a member you also get full access to the plus catalog which has a bunch of guided meditations and podcasts and stuff like that in there which you don't need any credits for if this sounds good to you go to audible.com david or text david to 500 500 to get access to audible today thank you audible for sponsoring today's video now in characteristic noctua fashion the packaging was designed by a sewage enthusiast but honestly at this point i'm such an octo of fangirl i wouldn't care if it came covered in actual poo but anyway let's open it up this is the accessory pouch that comes with mounting gear a pretty awesome looking screwdriver and some thermal paste along with fan brackets so you can actually attach a fan for some beast cooling to this thing oh look at that beast that is spectacular looking it is the size of a medium planet but um that's good right so you can see that it's got path for air in just multiple directions so it can actually go through the side of the heatsink as well along with the top the back the front like there's just so much easy access for air in this cooler which makes a lot of sense for a passive design mounting this cooler is really easy it uses standard noctua mounting hardware which is pretty idiot proof i did notice that in the user manual there is a link to a website which not only has hilarious stock pictures of people doing business but it's also got an extensive breakdown of various suitable use cases for this cooler and there's even a cpu compatibility list i would definitely check that out if you are in the market for one of these coolers because it is passive it's a lot more case sensitive than a cooler with a fan on it now obviously later in the video we are going to completely ignore all of those recommendations uh but before we get into that let's strap it to an i9 11 900k and see how well it handles that hot boys cpu in a lightish gaming load okay so we've got gta 5 running and uh the temperatures are climbing pretty quickly okay but we're currently running it like you know high 60s low 70s on the cpu i'm curious to see how long it's going to be able to keep this up if it'll be able to like if the temperatures will stabilize or if it's going to keep climbing until nuclear fusion happens now at this point we've done a full just lap of of the gta 5 map and uh yeah it's in the high 80s at this point mid to high 80s so i'm going to do another lap and see if it can handle that because yeah at this point it's doing better than i was expecting quite frankly now after that failed attempt to steal a car i am at the point where i've done two rounds of the map and um yeah it's not even started throttling yet i guess it will at some point but i'm very quickly losing interest so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna switch off two of the cores and then reduce the core frequency a little bit and then see how it handles that kind of situation now here we have it running with only six cores on the 900k and as you can see i clocked it down to 4.2 gigahertz so it's not running as fast and there's fewer cores active now before i didn't have the the power usage reading up but i did have hardware info running in the background recording it and over the test session there was an average power utilization of about 100 watts so this is down to about the mid 60s so yeah hopefully the cooler will handle it better now after quite a long run it seems like this cooler is able to effectively deal with about 65-ish watts of continuous load in an open air test situation like this uh the temperatures have been pretty stable through this long test uh but that's not why we're here we're gonna see if we can cool a gpu passively with it so yeah let's let's try that out okay so this is gonna get ghetto really quickly now the reason that i have a pcie riser cable is because it's going to be really difficult to like mate these two together so if we have a pci riser cable we can actually lie the graphics card flat down so then gravity will give us a bit of help but the problem is as you can see here the cooler is lob-sided so i can't just use gravity and hope that the weight of the cooler can give us decent thermal contact although it is pretty heavy so it may help but i do still need to secure it down somehow i mean is there really any other way to do it than zip ties oh um okay well there's actually much less cooling on the video memory and the vrm than i was expecting i thought there was like little heatsinks and stuff i think it should be okay i'm not 100 sure though i'll have a fan kind of blowing on on the pcb that may help i also may just kind of thermal pad stick this gt city cooler to it like that that'll just kind of make me feel better you know i don't think it'll actually do anything but maybe it'll help sometimes my genius staggers even myself so what we have going here is we have the cooler like zip tied down at the base and then we've got a microphone stand that's kind of holding it up so you can see that it's leaning quite nicely against that microphone stand when you look at it down here i don't think we've got the best thermal contact going here but i think it should do the job because i've got quite a lot of thermal paste under there and then back there we have what is definitely the most important part a gt 1030 heatsink just thermal padded to the vram so yeah i don't know this may actually work yeah let's power it up and see if anything interesting happens hey look at that we've got a video out okay it's it's slowly starting to put bits of load on the gpu and uh the temperatures are climbing quite rapidly i i have a feeling the moment that it's gonna load into the game it's just gonna be sod oh straight to 90 degrees celsius um and it's immediately throttled down to 300 megahertz uh yeah i don't think this is going very well yo so if i push it down look at how quickly the temperatures drop there's definitely a thermal contact issue uh i'm gonna have to rethink the mounting because if i let it go straight up to 90 and it'd be sods five minutes later so now what i've done is just kind of wedged a box between the motherboard and the heatsink and that actually seems to make better contact so yeah hopefully that works let's try that again with the very high tech box wedge fix uh we've already dropped 20 degrees celsius from this point last time so that's a good that's a good sign i think the age-old box wedge trick may have worked there oh look at that it's actually running i mean it's very quickly climbing to 90 degrees celsius but it's working again i feel like our core frequency is slowly creeping down but we're still getting a very similar frame rate like it's not really slowing the gaming performance down much i actually kind of want to push down on it again and see how much like the temperatures drop yo look at how the temperature drops when you when you push down on it oh if i can mount this properly it'll work so well yeah because the moment i let it go it it it shoots back up into the 80s okay so i've wedged the box in better and now i'm not touching it and it's sitting in the 50s there we go that is the result i was looking for hell yeah because now it's at the point where the cooler is going to start thermally saturating and then and then it'll it'll heat up from there because it's actually got proper contact now now after ages of driving around we are still not over 70 degrees celsius on the gpu which is pretty crazy i i did not expect it to work this well especially the like the main fix was just wedging a box under it like that that was all i needed for proper thermal contact and with that it brings me to the end of another video if you liked it please do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next video byenoctua finally launched their passive cpu cooler and on the box there's a sticker that says fanless cooling for high-end cpus and honestly i didn't know i could be this aroused by a sticker uh so what we're gonna do with this cooler today is yes see if it can cool cpus but then i'm gonna do some unholy things to it but before we get into that there's a sponsor for today's video today's video is sponsored by audible which is for all you busy bodies out there that don't actually have time to sit down and read a book and would much rather have someone read it to you with audible you can maintain your active lifestyle he says like a marketing loser while still being well read as an audible member you'll get one credit every month for any title in their entire premium selection i would recommend using your first credit on the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy narrated by stephen fry because who doesn't want steven fry tonguing their ears as a member you also get full access to the plus catalog which has a bunch of guided meditations and podcasts and stuff like that in there which you don't need any credits for if this sounds good to you go to audible.com david or text david to 500 500 to get access to audible today thank you audible for sponsoring today's video now in characteristic noctua fashion the packaging was designed by a sewage enthusiast but honestly at this point i'm such an octo of fangirl i wouldn't care if it came covered in actual poo but anyway let's open it up this is the accessory pouch that comes with mounting gear a pretty awesome looking screwdriver and some thermal paste along with fan brackets so you can actually attach a fan for some beast cooling to this thing oh look at that beast that is spectacular looking it is the size of a medium planet but um that's good right so you can see that it's got path for air in just multiple directions so it can actually go through the side of the heatsink as well along with the top the back the front like there's just so much easy access for air in this cooler which makes a lot of sense for a passive design mounting this cooler is really easy it uses standard noctua mounting hardware which is pretty idiot proof i did notice that in the user manual there is a link to a website which not only has hilarious stock pictures of people doing business but it's also got an extensive breakdown of various suitable use cases for this cooler and there's even a cpu compatibility list i would definitely check that out if you are in the market for one of these coolers because it is passive it's a lot more case sensitive than a cooler with a fan on it now obviously later in the video we are going to completely ignore all of those recommendations uh but before we get into that let's strap it to an i9 11 900k and see how well it handles that hot boys cpu in a lightish gaming load okay so we've got gta 5 running and uh the temperatures are climbing pretty quickly okay but we're currently running it like you know high 60s low 70s on the cpu i'm curious to see how long it's going to be able to keep this up if it'll be able to like if the temperatures will stabilize or if it's going to keep climbing until nuclear fusion happens now at this point we've done a full just lap of of the gta 5 map and uh yeah it's in the high 80s at this point mid to high 80s so i'm going to do another lap and see if it can handle that because yeah at this point it's doing better than i was expecting quite frankly now after that failed attempt to steal a car i am at the point where i've done two rounds of the map and um yeah it's not even started throttling yet i guess it will at some point but i'm very quickly losing interest so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna switch off two of the cores and then reduce the core frequency a little bit and then see how it handles that kind of situation now here we have it running with only six cores on the 900k and as you can see i clocked it down to 4.2 gigahertz so it's not running as fast and there's fewer cores active now before i didn't have the the power usage reading up but i did have hardware info running in the background recording it and over the test session there was an average power utilization of about 100 watts so this is down to about the mid 60s so yeah hopefully the cooler will handle it better now after quite a long run it seems like this cooler is able to effectively deal with about 65-ish watts of continuous load in an open air test situation like this uh the temperatures have been pretty stable through this long test uh but that's not why we're here we're gonna see if we can cool a gpu passively with it so yeah let's let's try that out okay so this is gonna get ghetto really quickly now the reason that i have a pcie riser cable is because it's going to be really difficult to like mate these two together so if we have a pci riser cable we can actually lie the graphics card flat down so then gravity will give us a bit of help but the problem is as you can see here the cooler is lob-sided so i can't just use gravity and hope that the weight of the cooler can give us decent thermal contact although it is pretty heavy so it may help but i do still need to secure it down somehow i mean is there really any other way to do it than zip ties oh um okay well there's actually much less cooling on the video memory and the vrm than i was expecting i thought there was like little heatsinks and stuff i think it should be okay i'm not 100 sure though i'll have a fan kind of blowing on on the pcb that may help i also may just kind of thermal pad stick this gt city cooler to it like that that'll just kind of make me feel better you know i don't think it'll actually do anything but maybe it'll help sometimes my genius staggers even myself so what we have going here is we have the cooler like zip tied down at the base and then we've got a microphone stand that's kind of holding it up so you can see that it's leaning quite nicely against that microphone stand when you look at it down here i don't think we've got the best thermal contact going here but i think it should do the job because i've got quite a lot of thermal paste under there and then back there we have what is definitely the most important part a gt 1030 heatsink just thermal padded to the vram so yeah i don't know this may actually work yeah let's power it up and see if anything interesting happens hey look at that we've got a video out okay it's it's slowly starting to put bits of load on the gpu and uh the temperatures are climbing quite rapidly i i have a feeling the moment that it's gonna load into the game it's just gonna be sod oh straight to 90 degrees celsius um and it's immediately throttled down to 300 megahertz uh yeah i don't think this is going very well yo so if i push it down look at how quickly the temperatures drop there's definitely a thermal contact issue uh i'm gonna have to rethink the mounting because if i let it go straight up to 90 and it'd be sods five minutes later so now what i've done is just kind of wedged a box between the motherboard and the heatsink and that actually seems to make better contact so yeah hopefully that works let's try that again with the very high tech box wedge fix uh we've already dropped 20 degrees celsius from this point last time so that's a good that's a good sign i think the age-old box wedge trick may have worked there oh look at that it's actually running i mean it's very quickly climbing to 90 degrees celsius but it's working again i feel like our core frequency is slowly creeping down but we're still getting a very similar frame rate like it's not really slowing the gaming performance down much i actually kind of want to push down on it again and see how much like the temperatures drop yo look at how the temperature drops when you when you push down on it oh if i can mount this properly it'll work so well yeah because the moment i let it go it it it shoots back up into the 80s okay so i've wedged the box in better and now i'm not touching it and it's sitting in the 50s there we go that is the result i was looking for hell yeah because now it's at the point where the cooler is going to start thermally saturating and then and then it'll it'll heat up from there because it's actually got proper contact now now after ages of driving around we are still not over 70 degrees celsius on the gpu which is pretty crazy i i did not expect it to work this well especially the like the main fix was just wedging a box under it like that that was all i needed for proper thermal contact and with that it brings me to the end of another video if you liked it please do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next video bye