Cooler Motherboard Mounting
Cooler Motherboard Mounting
Intel Z170 board mount
When mounted to a Z170-style motherboard, the True Spirit 140 Direct cooler fits well into the allocated space with full use of all DIMM slots. The cooler's slim profile allows it to accommodate the front mounted fan without impacting the use of the DIMM slots.
From the closeup views, you can better see how well cooler's slim profile works to its advantage. The radiator is mounted high enough to avoid space conflicts with larger VRM heat sinks, while its width and depth give is a small enough footprint to fit in tight spaces. You should have not issues mounting this cooler to most boards.
With two fans mounted in a push-pull configuration, the cooler still fits well to the board. The cooler's slim design allows it to accommodate the second fan without impact to the board components.
Intel X99 board mount
With a single fan mounted to the cooler, the True Spririt 140 Direct has space issues between the upper or lower set of memory modules nor with the chipset heat sink or a card mounted in the primary PCIe slot on the selected X99 motherboard. The slim depth of the cooler's radiator tower allows the fans to fit behind mounted memory, even with the memory mounted in the upper-most slot in the lower set.
The closeup views around the cooler give a much better perspective of how well it fits within the space allocated for mounting to the x99's socket. The layout of the heat pipes connecting the base plate to the radiator provide more than sufficient clearance for any board-mounted VRM heat sinks.
With dual fans mounted to the cooler in a push-pull configuration, the True Spirit 140 Direct cooler fits into the allocated space perfectly. There is sufficient space for both fans to sit inbetween the upper and lower memory sets, even with modules mounted to the innermost slots.
link on the main page leads
link on the main page leads to pcper main page, not to the article
Fixed, thanks for pointing
Fixed, thanks for pointing that out…
thanks for the
thanks for the review
relatively small footprint and stands up very well against the mighty Noctua, so definitely going on my list of parts to consider for future builds
and it has ryzen support, awesome
At the bottom of the
At the bottom of the ‘Features and Design’ page:
‘If their was any variation in height between the heat pipes…’
Under ‘Included Accessories’:
‘The socket top is then put on top of the CPU / space plate adn locked in place.’
At the top of the ‘Conclusion’ page:
‘… impressive peice of kit…’
In the middle of the ‘Conclusion’ page:
‘…small single tower radistor…’
Also, you spell ‘upper-most’ with a hyphen, but ‘innermost’ without one. I don’t know which spelling is correct, but surely you should at least be consistent.
Thank you for the feedback,
Thank you for the feedback, this has all been corrected…
one hell of a review. i
one hell of a review. i usually would look passed thermalright, and would focus on enermax, coolermaster and deepcool. i may consider getting one for my ryzen 5 1600.
Thermalright have been around
Thermalright have been around for a long time, way before Noctua became popular.
I am still using my first Thermalright that i had mounted on my AMD 6400+ , just had to buy a different mounting kit for socket 1151 when i upgraded. it is a Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme and its been in use for almost 10 years now ,replaced the fan about 3 times so far and have a Noctua fan on it right now.
I considered buying the True
I considered buying the True Spirit Direct for my personal Ryzen 1800x build, but opted for the larger True Spirit Power with the 8mm pipes, simply because I was curious and have a big enough case. Thermalright’s site rates the 140 Power at 325 watts, but don’t seem to have a rating for the 140 Direct. That’s a lot of watts, I wonder if it would handle the new Intel X299 chips. (?)
The Power is intended for a big case, it’s over 171mm tall and weighs 725 grams vs 161mm and 650 grams for the Direct. Honestly, the Power is overkill for the 1800x which runs cool no matter what I do to it. The Direct would have saved me $10, and kept it almost as cool.
I like the True Spirit series. They have great performance and are very space efficient. They are well built and look really good. Their fans seem to be excellent.
IMHO Thermalright is the Rolls Royce of air coolers. All four of our family computers are equipped with Thermalright coolers. I have a box full of old Thermalright video card and CPU coolers that I would like to use some day; these coolers seem to last forever.
I personally am a big fan of
I personally am a big fan of their Macho series, although they are huge. But you must believe me, they’re great coolers, and nobody does them as good as they do.
what are your temps at with
what are your temps at with that cooler?