❄️ Stay cool, stay ahead — the ultimate air cooler for pros who demand peak performance!
The Thermalright FC140 Black is a premium dual-tower CPU air cooler featuring 5x8mm heat pipes with AGHP technology for superior heat dissipation and a 275W TDP rating. Equipped with two PWM fans (120mm and 140mm) delivering up to 95.5 CFM airflow at low noise levels, it ensures efficient cooling for high-performance CPUs. Its offset asymmetric design allows compatibility with large RAM modules and first-slot GPUs, while universal mounting brackets support a wide range of Intel and AMD sockets, making it a versatile and reliable choice for demanding PC builds.
M**N
Absolute top-tier cooling performance on Intel 13th gen! Easily hangs with the best.
Full disclosure, I already own a Noctua NH-D15. I recently built a new rig with an Intel Core i5-13600K which is overclocked and runs pretty hot. I wanted to try something new versus my Noctua, which is a few years old now. Being a longtime fan of Thermalright since the AMD Athlon XP days, I bought the Frost Commander. The quality of the mounting hardware, heatsink, and fans are right up there with Noctua honestly. The whole thing has such a nice premium feel to it and it's just a fraction of the price. It even includes LGA1700 mounting hardware, something that DeepCool still doesn't do with the Assassin III.Cooling performance is awesome too. On my 13600k which is running @ 1.36v, the Frost Commander keeps it cool enough to not thermal throttle, which is pretty crazy for an air cooler. I did compare it on my CPU to my NH-D15 and I didn't see any meaningful difference, which is a good thing. The Frost Commander easily cools as good as the D15 which has long been considered the 'king' of air coolers.If I have to nitpick and come up with a complaint, it would be the noise profile. At low RPMs the included fans are pretty much inaudible, but once around 900-1000 RPM, there is a bit of a drone/hum to them. This goes away at faster speeds all the way up to the maximum RPM which is mostly the sound of rushing air, but that mid-RPM hum is a little annoying to me in my Fractal Torrent case. I may experiment with other fans on this cooler just to see if I can get a little bit better of a noise profile across the whole RPM range. I would still highly recommend this cooler though. Incredible performance for a very reasonable cost.
J**E
Good cooler but hard to assemble.
Works great and keeps my CPU consistently cool even during heavy loads. The fans are hard to attach and take some patience and adjusting.
M**O
No frills, affordable high performance
No frills, affordable high performance. High compatibility, great cooling at a great price. Knocking the big guys off their pedestals.
J**Z
Does it is job, cost less than than Nocuta even after upgrading the fans
I will state that is this cooler is compatible with AM5. I am not sure what other reviewers were doing, if they read the instruction manual, or maybe that missing parts, but I currently have this cooler on an 7950x3D. The instuctions stated to remove the mounting plates on the mother, keep the back plate, and place the red plastic (am5) spacers on the threads of the backplate. I am guessing people who stated it is not compatible, did not removed the mounting plates from the motherboard and replace them with the red spacers, or they were missing the red spacers entirely. I was originally going to get a Noctua cooler $120, but I got this instead. It does the job cooling, particularly due to how hot AM5 chips runs, but the fan noise is annoying. I do have a fan curve set a bit aggressive to ensure that the CPU stays cool, but I can keep the same fan curve and upgrade the fans to have less noise without losing performance, in which, I am replacing the original 140mm fan with a NF-14 chromax, and NF-12 chromax, which does an increase the cost, but noise levels are subjective. My case fans are all be quit lightwins 140mm, and I pretty sure most annoying noise is coming from the CPU Cooler fans. IF you do not care so much for noise, or you have a case with good sound-dampening (I have the tower 300, then the cooler is a real good deal. Even after fan upgrades, I save about $20 than buying the Nocuta cooler, and you can save more money if you go quiet fans that do have premium price of Noctuas, but I got so use to my previous PC build being so quiet under load, that I decided to pay the premium for known-brand, quiet fan with the same or more airflow than the stock fans, at lower RPMs. Overall, it is a good cooler with nice aethestics for an air cooler. AIO's are still more aesthestically pleasing; however, good AOI's with the performance of this air cooler are much more expensive, and there is always a with pump failure and coolant leakeage with AIOs. I also do not handle the frequency of pump nosies well, but again, that is all subjective. You will still likely have to upgrade the fans of a good AIO to make it quiet, which makes them even more expensive than this cooler, so the cooler is well worth it in the end. I believe there are videos for installing this cooler, so if you stuggle with the literary instructions of this cooler, than the utilize the visual aids, such as videos.
