Sunday, December 8th 2019
Thermalright Frost Spirit CPU Cooler Pictured: Dual Fin-stack Monstrosity
Here are some of the first pictures of the Frost Spirit by Thermalright, the company's next flagship air CPU cooler. Featuring a dual fin-stack design, the Frost Spirit features dense fin-stacks, in which the fins bunch up toward the center, creating turbulence and increasing heat-dissipation to the medium (air-flow). The fin-stack gets slimmer toward the base, adding clearance for your motherboard's memory and CPU VRM areas. Four 8 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heat pipes pull heat from the mirror-finish nickel-plated copper base, spreading it across the fin-stacks. Both stacks are capped off by metal top-plates. Up to three 140 mm fans can be mounted. The heatsink weighs 1 kg on its own (without fans). Among the CPU socket types supported are AM4, LGA115x, and LGA2066. It could see a product launch soon.
Sources:
ChipHell, FanlessTech
31 Comments on Thermalright Frost Spirit CPU Cooler Pictured: Dual Fin-stack Monstrosity
Really interested to see performance of 4x8mm vs 6x6mm
According to Chiphell this is not flagship, only mid tier
The contact surface of the base to CPU is too small for use with TR4 itself - Meant to be a "Big Air" cooler for the sockets named.
Looks good. If this gets priced well, it will blow Noctua and BQ out of the water. If they give us the Grand Macho fan (looks like it, the middle one) and ditto quality... sweet.
I guess that's also Scythe out of the game then. Mugen just turned obsolete, and Fuma probably too
Also, why have 2 different styles of fans ?
Hope you gots a mucho strong mobo pcb, otherwise this thing is gonne be droopin bigtime, at least in a normal vertical set-up.
I had a spirit cooler years ago and don't remember it being anywhere near that heavy....but oh well :)
SP-97 for life!
- Area of 6mm circle is 28.26sq mm while 8mm is 50.24sq mm.
- Surface area is 18.84 mm while 8mm is 25.12mm.
- 8x 6mm heatpipe cooler has 226.08sq mm while 6x 8mm heatpipes have 301.44sq mm total crossectional area.
- [LEFT]Both 8x 6mm and 6x 8mm heatpipe coolers have 150.72mm surface are.[/LEFT]
While 6x 8mm heatpipes have same surface area as 8x 6mm heatpipes (150.72mm), 6x 8mm heatpipes have way more volume (301.44 vs 226.08sq mm). I think this allows improved vapor flow from cooler base toward ends of heatpipes, and thus better heat transfer.I'm terribly lazy with math, so I quoted doyll from another forum talking about True Spirit 140 Power. I have that cooler running on an x5690 as we speak.As long as you actually tightened the screws holding your mobo down, it should be fine. I still occasionally see people who are afraid to turn a screw all the way down.
Monster sure.
Monstrosity has negative connotations.
Lets look at a couple of definitions of monstrosity.Similar terms are...
eyesore, horror, carbuncle.
I don't think any of those definitions or terms suit this cooler. It actually looks pretty damn nice, especially those top plates.
could @btarunr maybe amend the title to reflect this? Or was it his intention to disparage an air cooler that actually looks like it might be rather good and good looking? :)
Thanks!
Not sure but one would suspect it has something to do with clearance and physical space limitations. The center fan is physically larger then the outer fan. Oddly enough, in the center of the fin stock you don't have to worry about space as much because you don't have to clear RAM, power chock heatsinks and the like.
Just a guess,....
Would need to see specs to know the sizes :)
like an overweight porker trailer park ho squeezed into a super tight corset kind of way... y.u.k...
This will cause the total height more than 168mm as Noctua NH-D15 in my case. So a 120mm fan is a smart choice while TL-C12 has been proved a neat fan whose stats and noise level very similar to Noctua A12x25. You may find some comparison test in some Chinese websites.
1kg for dual tower cooler is normal. My NH-D15 with two fans is 1.3kg in total.