Noctua Introduces Offset Mounts for Arrow Lake — up to -3 °C when shifted to the CPU hot zone

Company Noctua Releases NM-IB8 Kit, designed for the NH-D15 G2 cooler and specially adapted for new generation of Intel processors Arrow Lake (Core Ultra 200/XNUMX). It offset mounting solution allows the radiator contact point to be shifted towards the hottest area of ​​the crystal and is claimed to provide a temperature reduction of up to 3°C depending on the cooler model.

Arrow Lakeis said to have hot zone northeast of the center of the processor socket LGA1851 - about 3,7mm up and 2mm to the right of center. This is where the CPU's compute tile is located, containing the P and E cores. The original NH-D15 G2 cooler touched the area closer to the SoC and I/O blocks, which was not ideal for thermal efficiency.

With a set NM-IB8 cooling becomes pinpoint - the cooler is pressed directly to the area of ​​the computing cores, which is especially important under multi-threaded loads. In Noctua's tests, this gave up to -3 °C with the HBC (High Base Convexity) version optimized for LGA 1700 curved chips, and up to -1 °C with the regular flat version.

The new mount is compatible only with NH-D15 G2 coolers — including standard, HBC and LBC modifications. Other Noctua coolers will not support it. Also this the company's first offset solution for Intel — Previously, such fastenings were made only for AMD Ryzen under AM4 and AM5, where the cores are also not located in the center of the cover.

The NH-D15 G2 series is the successor to the legendary NH-D15, which debuted in 2014. The G2 model received a new base convexity system (HBC and LBC), and now also a pinpoint adjustment for placement above the crystal. Noctua adapts its coolers for modern processors, focusing not only on versatility, but also on precise adjustment to the thermal characteristics of new generations.