INTRODUCTION

   Although we're near the end of September and thus the summer season should be long over by now that's not really the case here so with temperatures as high as 36 degrees Celsius it really comes as very little surprise that people are still looking for a good CPU cooler for their systems. It goes without saying that since most consumers place price above performance the most popular solutions currently are air coolers followed closely by AIO liquid coolers but what really took us by surprise is that custom water cooling kits/loops are selling quite well lately (because of that we will bring you yet another such review by the end of this week) probably due to the reduced price gap between them and AIO solutions currently. Today’s review however is about one of the latest non-interference CPU air cooler models introduced by Thermaltake the NiC L32.

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   The NiC L32 CPU Cooler by Thermaltake follows the successful path of its predecessors (we had the C5 model with us roughly two years ago) so once again we see a tower heatpipe design with a thin enough profile that offers zero clearance issues with both the mainboard and the RAM modules. Additionally the latest NiC L32 has a TDP (thermal design power) of 180W and comes ready with an 140mm low profile high-speed PWM fan and three 8mm nickel plated copper heat-pipes that come in direct contact with the CPU cover (direct contact heat-pipe technology). It's clear that specs-wise the NiC L32 is not only smaller and lacks the plastic shroud we saw with the C5 model but it also features one fan (the C5 has two in push & pull) and comes with fewer (although thicker) heatpipes so although we're quite curious to see how it does we don't really expect it to surpass its predecessor.