Today we?re looking at the brand new Noctua NH-D15, which despite what the name may indicate, will not sit alongside the NH-D14. Instead, it replaces it as a new model.

The NH-D15 is one of the more hotly anticipated CPU coolers in recent memory. Part of this has to do with just how well the NH-D14 performed. I think what really got people excited though, was the NH-U14S. This single tower cooler, paired up with Noctua's custom ?14cm fan on a 15cm frame? NF-A15 fans, was able to outperform the venerable NH-D14 and in fact all other dual tower coolers it went up against. A lot of this performance was attributed to the new fans as well as an improved heatpipe design.

As you can guess, people immediately wondered what would happen if Noctua came out with a new cooler that combined the fan and heatpipes of the NH-U14S, but in a dual tower ?D series? design. Well here it is ? the NH-D15.