Noctua is one of the last bastions of high-performance top-flow design CPU coolers, but that doesn't come in the way of Noctua keeping top-flow alive, in fact the company is coming up with more ways to push the performance barrier, and compete with side-flow and closed-loop water cooling kits. Seen here is a new "downdraft" type CPU cooler prototype. The design involves large aluminum fin stacks that propagate along the plane of the motherboard, over the CPU socket and memory slot area. Don't worry, there's 70 mm of clearance with everything below, letting you install certain kinds of tall memory modules.
Passive cooling is coming to Noctua's heatsink lineup, and their prototype could cool an i9-9900K.
The latest air cooling from Noctua, the Noctua NH-U12A packs their flagship NF-A12x25 fans for AIO-killing performance.
Making it easier to keep your components cool
