Review FSP MP5 and NP7 Air Coolers Review: Simple and effective

[Admin]

We tested FSP’s MP5 and NP7 air coolers with Intel’s i7-14700K and Core Ultra 9 285K CPUs. The MP5 stands out for an entry-level cooler.

FSP MP5 and NP7 Air Coolers Review: Simple and effective : Read more

 

[MergleBergle]

just out of curiousity, I've noticed that most of the cooling/case review focus on Intel. With AMD cpus starting to gain a large amount of the desktop market share, why aren't we seeing cooler reviews with AMD stuff? Is it just because Intel stuff is stupidly hot and power hungry?

 

[thestryker]

I wonder what the point of using NP (5) vs MP (7) is because it just seems like an unnecessary confusion point to me.

These coolers seem to fall entirely into the okay category, but assuming you have the room (and it's available in your region) it doesn't seem like the Thermalright Phantom Spirit Peerless Assassin 140 is going to be dethroned any time soon. Of course they've also got the Royal Pretor and now I'm seeing a Frost Vortex one or both of which may be the new air cooler king.

 

[Albert.Thomas]

just out of curiousity, I've noticed that most of the cooling/case review focus on Intel. With AMD cpus starting to gain a large amount of the desktop market share, why aren't we seeing cooler reviews with AMD stuff? Is it just because Intel stuff is stupidly hot and power hungry?

For a while, I used to test with both Intel's i7-13700K and Ryzen 7 7700X - but the performance of coolers with those CPUs was similar enough as to be redundant. That said, there were a few interesting exceptions where a cooler performed worse or better on Intel or AMD.

I am interested in adding Ryzen 9950X3D to future testing for both cases and coolers.

 

[Albert.Thomas]

Looking at this review, I suppose I should have made one thing more clear:

These coolers seem to perform better on Raptor Lake CPUs than they do Arrow Lake. There's always the possibility I messed something up, but I'm fairly confident that wasn't the case 😛