News MSI 240-watt Core Frozr CPU air cooler marks a bold, breezy return to air cooling after a 10-year hiatus

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MSI has silently listed the MAG Core Frozr AA13 CPU air cooler, available in both black and white colors.

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According to MSI, the MAG Core Frozr AA13 can accommodate processors with a TDP of up to 240W. These assertions are based on the company's internal testing with the Core i9-14900K.

That has large die area, compared with Ryzen chiplet-based CPUs. Also, I have to nit-pick that it's official TDP is 125 W, although you can definitely tweak its power limits to run it at 240W, sustained.

The CPU cooler is equipped with mounting mechanisms for Intel LGA1700 and LGA1851 sockets, as well as AMD AM4 and AM5 sockets.

The AM4/AM5 mounting mechanism better rotate it 90 degrees from what's shown in the pic, because its handful of heat pipes are oriented the wrong way for effective cooling of those CPUs. Consider the implications of you cooler blowing in a bottom-to-top direction, instead of front-to-back. Maybe it's okay, but definitely something to plan for.

Lastly, as much as I like the idea of direct-touch heat pipes, I think it's a stretch to use just 4 of them, no matter how big or well-designed they are. It's difficult for me to fathom how they expect something like this to stand up to coolers from Thermalright.

 

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I love it how manufacturers claim 240W, then You put under it 14900K and it screams @ 100°C all the time. I mean it probably could cool 150W at full RPM, but no way a 120 mil tower can handle as much as most of the 360 AiOs can't. My custom loop with one 360mm rad and now Ryujin 360 Extreme can handle 9950X3D at default at full burn at around 80°C. That's three 120mm towers with 30mm fans and thick rad. I mean MSi believes people don't know thermodynamics or something. NH-D15 and gen2 can barely cool 220W @ 90°C, and fail at 250 - 300W.

And I'm talking PTM and Graphene pad, no trial and error thermal paste shenanigans.

 

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I love it how manufacturers claim 240W, then You put under it 14900K and it screams @ 100°C all the time. I mean it probably could cool 150W at full RPM, but no way a 120 mil tower can handle as much as most of the 360 AiOs can't.

100% agree. I'd love to see this thing tested, just to show how ridiculously far off they were in their claims.