News Noctua Launches Its First Fanless Cooler: The NH-P1

PapaCrazy

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With a loss of sustained boost clocks, this is not the silent workstation cooler I had been hoping for. Oh well, should be nice for silent multimedia systems with some short-duration gaming loads.
 

salgado18

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From the compatibility list, Ryzen 5800X entry, fanless:

CPU might fall slightly below base-clock under continuous full load.

I call that an absolute win. This is not meant for rendering, for example, but for bursts of use. If it can handle it that well, this cooler is great.
 

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They need to add Vapor chamber to this cooler ... Vapor chamber + heatpipes proved to be the best. I am still waiting for Noctua to try it
The passive cooler just absorbs the heat from the CPU without a fan thanks to its monstrous size, but you still need case fans to remove the heat from the cooler's fins.
Taken together a vapor chamber might work, otherwise the small temperature differential would likely be insufficient for a vapor chamber to function properly.