Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 vs NZXT Kraken X63 280mm

So essentially today's video, we're looking at this cooler mainly. This is the star of the show, so to speak. And this is for your ITX build, so like ...

There is no performance difference between Gen 6 and Gen 5. And Gen 7 versus Gen 5 testing, X62, X63 with the same fans, same fan speeds, everything. ...

This PC runs MUCH quieter than anything else I own, even laptops. I do mostly dev work on my deskmini, which runs Ubuntu 20.04 - even when playing the games the 3000g allows, I have not seen temps over 50C. I admit the brown fan showing through my all-black mini case is slightly off-putting, but the black version of this was more expensive or not available

In case you do have an issue, contact NZXT support and they'll provide a usb hub that works as a workaround until they can roll out Krakens with the permanent fix built in or whatever. One more thing to be aware of is that unlike what the manual says there are only 2 viable installation directions if you are planning on the screen facing right side up. It's true that there is a way to rotate the image through the NZXT CAM software but if it isn't installed in one of the aforementioned orientations then unfortunately it wont be able to rotate it to the correct orientation which seems like an odd limitation but it is what it is. Okay so the performance of this cpu cooler is good, but I was honestly expecting just a bit more cooling efficiency from this latest pump design but it misses the mark by a non-insignificant amount