Thermalright FC140 Black CPU Air Cooler,Dual Tower 5 Heat Pipe,TL-D14X-B and TL-C12PRO PWM Fan,Aluminium Heatsink Cover, AGHP Technology, for AMD AM4/AM5/Intel LGA 1150/1151/1155/1156/1200/2011/1700

The media could not be loaded. The largest and best CPU air cooler I could find. Ryzen 9700X eight core overclock, 165W at 5.7Ghz, 5.5Ghz all cores. Ryzen AM5 measures warmer than AM4 as the hot components are placed closer to the top in the CPU sandwich. Cannot vouch for how effective this thing is out of the box as I replaced the fans with 2300rpm 140mm server fans. However I can say it's crazy effective.I replaced my previous Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 with the FC140. My temps only dropped 2-3 degrees C BUT it did what I wanted it to, more radiator means more heat disbursement and lower fan rpm for the same temps. I think the 8mm heat pipes helps this too. I did notice on the highest fan settings there is more wind noise coming off the radiator than the Phantom but was still relatively quiet overall.This is my #1 choice for air cooling a CPU, have no doubt it will even handle a 12 core.

Works great and keeps my CPU consistently cool even during heavy loads. The fans are hard to attach and take some patience and adjusting.

On May 14 2025, NH-D15 G2 is $180, this one is only $50. This cooler keeps my 14700K Cool at 70C max. What more I want? I do NOT overclock and I will take care this PC and keep using this PC for over 10 years AT THE LEAST. I highly recommend this cooler.

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.

Initially this seems like a really good bang for the buck. This is a really big HSF, but it does give plenty of clearance for most motherboard parts. (Though if you don't have low profile memory it is likely going to make it impossible to mount the front fan normally. The heatsink itself clears any RAM, but the front fan does not clear high profile RAM.) A HSF like this is great for keeping up with modern processors that recommend AIO coolers if you don't want to actually go to water cooling. It's definitely able to keep up with my Ryzen 9 9900X fine even when all 12 cores are being fully used such as for shader compilation. Well, it does thermal limit, but anything higher end than a Ryzen 3 will thermal limit when pushed and even those might... They're designed that way. This heatsink tower is even bigger and wider than most others, so I can believe it when it claims to handle a lot of thermal energy.My biggest complaint is the stock fans are really as bad as people say. In fact, I'd swear they are worse than advertised. They say about 30dB, but when those fans ramp up it really sounds like a tornado in there! They push a lot of CFM, but you can actually get more static pressure from Noctua fans. Also, the 140mm fan seems like a good idea, but significant portions of it actually hang off the heatsink, making a lot of its capabilities wasted. It may even be worse than the 120mm due to this (reduced pressure around the edges allowing more air to flow around instead of through.) Ideally the fan should fit as exactly as possible and it doesn't.I also do think the clips need to go away as a thing. This isn't just Thermalright though. This applies to many of the fin towers made recently. I don't know how people are breaking them, but they really are a real pain to install. If the towers had some sort of bracket, then they could use rubber pieces to attach or maybe mounting brackets with screws. There just has to be a better way. (What would be really great is some sort of slide-in bracket where the middle ends up enclosed so it pulls through the front fins instead of around them.) You really need to put the fans on while the motherboard is out of the case and if you have to change them (which you likely will do if you put the stock ones in) you'll wish it wasn't inside the case.Since you're going to want to replace the stock fans, it gets to be a much worse bang for the buck after all. It makes me wish that this model was sold without fans at all so you could just choose whatever to put on it.

Used it on a 10900kf with ptm7950 and get mid to high 80s for temp under load overclocked to 5.1ghz all core using 240w. I don't know how people were breaking the fan clips it was very easy to do.