MSI Gaming Core Frozr L CPU Cooler Unveiled

[btarunr]

MSI announced retail availability of the Core Frozr L CPU cooler. This tower-type air cooler features an aluminium fin stack that projects upwards from the base at a slightly offset position. This is to clear up room south of the CPU socket in a typical motherboard, and also to clear up room near the memory slots. The cooler measures 140 mm x 155 mm x 84 mm, and weighs 960 g.

The cooler features four 8 mm thick nickel-plated copper heat pipes that draw heat from the base, and convey them along eight points in the fin-stack. The topmost fin features a groovy MSI Gaming die-cast metal plate. The included 140 mm Torq-X fan spins between 500-1,800 RPM, pushing between 19.79 - 71.27 CFM of air, with a noise output of 17.2 - 33.6 dBA. The cooler can handle thermal loads of up to 200W. It supports most modern CPU socket types, including AM4, LGA2011v3, LGA115x, LGA1366, AM3(+), and FM2(+).



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[natr0n]

Looks extremely well made. Those pipes aren't fooling around.

 

[P4-630]

That offset could definitely be useful with the Colorful iGame GTX 1080 KUDAN.

 

[Caring1]

It's huge, they need to shrink it while retaining the same cooling.

 

[rtwjunkie]

TPU had a review of it by @crazyeyesreaper in October. https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/Core_Frozr_L/

 

[Ed_1]

It's huge, they need to shrink it while retaining the same cooling.

Its 120mm fan so its about around size of CM 212 or Noctua U12S and performs close to the U12S, anything smaller would be in another class of cooler.

Does seem well made.

 

[Caring1]

The included 140 mm Torq-X fan spins between 500-1,800 RPM, pushing between 19.79 - 71.27 CFM of air, with a noise output of 17.2 - 33.6 dBA.

Its 120mm fan so its about around size of CM 212 or Noctua U12S and performs close to the U12S, anything smaller would be in another class of cooler.

It could be made smaller to fit a 120mm fan, I still say 140 is too big.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

500 rpm, wow sure they could have gotten it quieter.

 

[eidairaman1]

It's huge, they need to shrink it while retaining the same cooling.

I don't believe it will block ram slots, my ashura doesnt and its a 140mm cooler

 

[Aquinus]

My Zalman CNPS9800 is 120mm and is so thin that I can fit any height DIMMs in any of the 8 slots on my motherboard. The best kind of cooler doesn't cover your memory slots.

 

[owen10578]

Wait isn't this out already and techpowerup already done a review on it?

 

[rtwjunkie]

Wait isn't this out already and techpowerup already done a review on it?

Post number 5.

 

[Aquinus]

Wait isn't this out already and techpowerup already done a review on it?

Reason for thread:

MSI announced retail availability of the Core Frozr L CPU cooler.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Reason for thread:

Yeah, crazyeyes' review was pre-release.

 

[Kursah]

This cooler rates worse than the Noctua U12S, though it is cheaper too. But I would've expected better results from it. I love my U14S, and I had the U12S for a short time but I wanted MOAR air cooling powa.

Still looks like it is well built and finished, interested to see what else they'll start offering for CPU cooling.