Nox hummer h - Reviews 2024

AIO liquid coolers are increasingly popular with demanding saurians for their multiple benefits. These heatsinks offer a remarkable cooling capacity, as well as being more efficient at expelling heat out of the PC, and greatly reducing the weight that the motherboard has to bear compared to a traditional air heatsink. The NOX Hummer H-120 Aura is a new proposal coming to the market to offer a good processor cooling solution for a tight price and a nice aesthetic.

First of all, we thank NOX for the trust placed in ceding the product to us for analysis.

NOX Hummer H-120 Aura technical characteristics

Unboxing and design

NOX Hummer H-120 Aura has arrived in a fairly compact cardboard box, with a high-quality print that is based on predominantly white and blue colors.

The box shows us a high-quality image of the AIO kit, as well as its most outstanding features such as RGB LED lighting, and compatibility with Intel and AMD processors. On the back, all its most important specifications and characteristics are detailed.

We open the box and find the NOX Hummer H-120 Aura covered by a plastic bag and accommodated between cardboard pieces, thus protecting its surface, and preventing it from moving during transport to the end user's home.

NOX Hummer H-120 Aura is a very compact AIO liquid cooling kit, as it is based on a radiator of only 120 mm, which will not make it compatible with most of the chassis on the market. The radiator is based on aluminum, a material that is a good conductor of heat and economical enough to offer great performance at a contained price. The design of the radiator is based on a multitude of fins, with the aim of increasing the surface of heat exchange with the air generated by the fans as much as possible.

The radiator is surrounded by a plastic frame and a rubber finish, thus achieving a perfect seal to prevent evaporation of the cooling fluid inside. This kit is designed to last for many years without the need for maintenance.

The rubber tubes that circulate the cooling fluid circulate from the radiator, they are quite long and flexible tubes, so the installation of the kit will be quite simple.

At the end of the tubes we find the block for the CPU, which integrates the pump that is in charge of moving the cooling fluid throughout the kit to transport the heat from the CPU to the radiator for its dissipation to the air generated by the fans.

At the top of this block we find the RGB LED lighting system, which we can configure to our liking to achieve the best aesthetics.

At the bottom of the block we find a copper base, perfectly polished to achieve perfect contact with the IHS of the processor. Thanks to this, the heat transfer will be maximum, and we will achieve great performance despite the small size of your radiator.

Inside the block is a microchannel structure to maximize the heat exchange surface between copper and the coolant, once again to maximize its cooling capacity.

Finally we see its 120mm fan, which includes a customizable RGB lighting system. This fan is based on hydraulic bearings, thereby reducing friction during operation, resulting in less wear and a lower level of noise generated.

LGA 1151 socket installation

For our tests we are going to use the most popular platform on the market the Intel LGA 1151 with a Z370 motherboard signed by Asus and a Core i7 8700k processor from the Coffee Lake family.

The first thing is to prepare the block as we show you in the image.

And we install the backplate from the back.

We flip the motherboard over (its natural position) and tighten the lock nuts on the base of the motherboard. And apply the thermal paste on the processor.

We install the block on the processor, fix with the retention screws and install all the wiring. We advise that we have a good "tail" of cable to install, and this is one of the points that we liked least.

Now we just have to mount the fans on the block and start it up. Let's see the performance tests!

Test bench and performance

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	Intel Core i7-8700k
Base plate:	Asus Maximus X Hero.
RAM:	16GB DDR4 Corsair Dominator PRO RGB
Heatsink	NOX Hummer H-120 Aura
HDD	Samsumg 850 EVO.
Graphic card	AMD RX VEGA 56
Power supply	Corsair AX860i.

To test the actual performance of the heatsink we are going to stress with the powerful Intel Core i7-8700k at stock speed. As usual, our tests consist of 72 uninterrupted hours of work in stock values, since being a ten-core processor and with high frequencies, temperatures can be high.

In this way, we can observe the highest temperature peaks and the average that the heatsink reaches. We must bear in mind that when playing or using other types of software, the temperature will drop dramatically between 7 to 12ºC.

How are we going to measure the processor temperature? For this test we will use the internal sensors of the processor under the supervision of the HWiNFO64 application in its latest version. We believe it is one of the best monitoring software that exists today. Without further delay, we leave you the results obtained: