Optics and haptics
What Noctua has constructed here is really something special. With a total of only 13 cooling fins, which are quite thick, the offered view is very unusual compared to regular air coolers.
No matter from which side you look at it, the NH-P1 is an impressive colossus. But that’s probably just an unavoidable side effect of using over 1kg of aluminum for a CPU cooler.
The attentive viewer may already have noticed that something else has changed from the prototype to the final product.
Instead of 12 cooling fins there are now 13, but only 6 of them are connected to the coldplate, before there were 8 with direct contact. And here’s a close-up of the coldplate I mentioned:
Then again, this is the prototype that Noctua first showed at Computex 2019</x-1>:
The small “flaps” didn’t make it out of the development phase either, nor did the widely protruding heat pipes.
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