Review Thermalright Frost Commander 140 Review: Strong Performance, Incredible Value

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The Frost Commander 140 provides cooling performance comparable to the best air coolers on the market, and it only costs $50! But there’s a catch.

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[Albert.Thomas]

Addendum: I'm testing BeQuiet's new Dark Base Pro 901 computer case right now, using Thermalright's Frost Commander 140 to test it's noise reduction features.

In this setup I've got Intel's i9-13900K - which can push more watts than the i7 featured in this review - and depending on the system fan settings, Thermalright's Frost Commander 140 is cooling 265W +-5W with Intel's i9-13900K.

 

[Math Geek]

just a few more $ than the peerless assassin and it sure looks like a winner to me.

even swapping out some quieter fans and your still well below the cost of the other top air coolers by a long shot.

 

[Amdlova]

My be can run passively on 35w cpu

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Thanks for the review! @Math Geek my thoughts exactly!

 

[-Fran-]

Thanks for the review as always, Albert.

Looks like there's a new kid in the block, walking all hung ho, heh.

Regards.

 

[dannyboy3210]

That certainly looks like an interesting cooler.
Just to check, should the first chart on page two (Thermal Results with noise normalized to 38.2 dBA) have the Thermalright Peerless Assassin?
I don't see it there although it appears to be in most of (if not all) the other charts.

 

[cyrusfox]

Nothing better than a big slab of metal. the heatsink alone is 1kg!
If you got the space for it, this makes a lot of sense

 

[Albert.Thomas]

That certainly looks like an interesting cooler.
Just to check, should the first chart on page two (Thermal Results with noise normalized to 38.2 dBA) have the Thermalright Peerless Assassin?
I don't see it there although it appears to be in most of (if not all) the other charts.

You'll find it in the noise normalized results for Ryzen 7 7700X, but I forgot to do the noise normalized testing when I retested it on the i7.

 

[Albert.Thomas]

My be can run passively on 35w cpu

Hmm, maybe I'll have to do some fanless testing on it

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Hmm, maybe I'll have to do some fanless testing on it

That would gives us the qualitative number on how much heat the heatsink design can soak up. The rest is upto the surface area, airflow and convection for cooling. This gives me a cool idea:

maybe add in other fancy stuff like:

• scanning the heatsink and giving us surface area numbers - coldplate, heatpipe and finstack
• have schlieren imaging to see the airflow

 

[Amdlova]

I have the 13500t bought from ebay really cheap 178us. My first idea put a big tower to keep it under control. The cooler master hyper 212 keep it in games but when stressed goes to 90°c semi fanless (cases fan 600 - 800 rpm) only actived when surpass 45°c