Noctua NH-D15 worth buying?

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I now have my I7 4970K at 1.200volt and 4.5 ghz (some can get vcore lower, i don't know my cpu's limited), my Thermalright macho zero BW with the old ty-147 fan (the black one to the right)
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermalright-macho-heatsink-cpu-cooler,4017-3.html is giving me with 5x120mm and 1 x140mm corsair af quiet fans at max rpm temps around 79-78 degrees, on silent i have about 85-86 degrees with prime 95 max heat.

I know to cool a cpu with water (not aio) a good and silent pump costs almost as much as a noctua NH-D15 and only a few aio water cpu coolers are a few degrees cooler then the noctua NH-D15, but the pump is noisy and the fans at max rpm are LOUD

I have a Asus Maximus Vii Ranger mb and 2x4gb trident x ram, would like to keed the red fins on the ram.

The last couple of days i have thought about if the Noctua NH-D15 is worth buying compared to what i have (i mean it's the best cpu air cooler nothing come close to it in terms of noise/temps ratio), i am pretty shure it's more silent then all the good 240-280mm aio coolers with of course no noise from the pump and the difference in temp to the best coolers is only 1-2 degrees
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/6313/noctua-nh-d15-cpu-cooler-review/index6.html

What do you think is it worth buying the Noctua NH-D15 compared to what i have?

(i like it silent but cool, low load,max 10%, at 1.200 volt and 4.5ghz, temps are about 55 degrees which i think is a bit to high)
 
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The corsair h100i or the noctua D15 are the coolers to have. Noctua D15 is as good as it gets on air. The h100i runs a little cooler if you are willing to accept the tradeoff for water.

You can always put a noctua fan on your existing cooler. I just installed a SP version of the noctua fan on my Cooler Master 212 EVO (I think the bearings were going out on the fan and I didn't want to risk my i53570k) and it made a huge difference for noise.

My next build will more than likely be getting a corsair h100i - I like the aesthetics and the cooling power, but noctua stuff is top notch...

 
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I have a nanoxia deep silence 1 case theres space for the biggest phantek cpu cooler, i am not considering anything else (have looked at water cooling, not aio, they cost as much as 2x noctua ND-D15 just to get a almost standard clc that can have a silent pump, atm that's to much)
 
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I ordered the Noctua NH-D15, i can have temps below 80 degrees with my thermalright cooler, but it's with 7 fans running at max rpm and 4.5ghz at 1.200volt as i mentioned, might turn vcore down to just under 1.200 something like 1.184 volt and that's it.

Was getting tired of only having 4.0 ghz at 1.00 volt and temps that was okay, running 4.5ghz with all fans on max, especially when it's sommer i don't want to, aio coolers are noisy at low load because of the pump and at max rpm,load, the stock fans are noisy, noctua fans are expensive and can't do a .... about a noisy pump, a pump you always can hear at low load.

A silent and cheap CLC pump is almost as expensive as a whole Noctua NH-D15, it might all in all end up to costs the same as 3 noctua NH-D15 for a good and silent clc .

Hope i can keep my i7 4790k at temps below 80 with prime 95 by only having the cpu cooler running at max rpm and low load temps under 50 degrees (both with case fans at low rpm)


I feel the i7 4790k need a monster cooler to keep it cool when all cores are running at 4.0ghz + even when it's surpose to be a cooler cpu then a i7 4770k
 
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Just FYI below 80 with an overclocked i7 4790K during prime95 small FFT may not be possible. It's no secret that Haswell runs firey hot, period.

I would be more concerned with below 60 during normal usage load, and low-mid 40's idle is what you really want.
 
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I am sometimes amazed how some people say they have temps in the mid 50's under load(could be when they game) when they have a oced there i7 to about 4.5ghz, still not max temp,load but to be able to run a i7 about 4.5ghz at that temp is impressive, when i see people say that they often just have a corsair H80i or a better one
 
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omy good........can't belive it i7 4790k 1.200volt 4.5ghz on all cores, prime 95 Small FFT (2 degrees hotter then In-place Large FFT) is giving me 72-73 degrees and fans are only 80% or just under 1000 rpm, case fan ro´pm is low(silent,quiet) ibt maximum i just go get something like 95 degrees with my thermalright macho zero with the BW ty 147 fan, can't remember if it where 4.0 ghz and 1.00 or 4.5 ghz and 1.200ghz that's insane, 43 degrees at low load fans are running max 300 rpm
 
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This is with the Noctua? Sounds like you got a really good chip....
 
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No, a monster cpu cooler, now after my pc have warmed up i get 75 degrees with small fft in prime 95 and ibt maximum 85 degrees, still 4.5 ghz and 1.200 volt

Low load temps are more then 5 degrees lower
 
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I don't have a window in my pc so i don't care, it's quiet and keeps my cpu cool, i even find the price about 85-90 euro to be more then reasonable.

It's a bargain
 
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I know, even the cheapest of the silent pumps (the problem with all aio coolers when the pump runs a max rpm) costs almost the same as a noctua NH-D15
 
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