Black with style! FSP MP7 Black Dual-Tower, Six-Heat-Pipe Cooling Tower Unboxing Review

The FSP MP7 Black, which supports Intel and AMD's latest platforms, is the highest-end model of Han's first wave of air-cooled tower coolers, featuring dual towers, dual fans, and six heatpipes with antigravity heatpipes to bring effective heat dissipation, and it is compatible with the AM5/AM4 and LGA 1851/1700/1200 platforms, with asymmetric avoidance design that also greatly improves RGB memory installation and compatibility. The asymmetric avoidance design also greatly improves RGB memory installation compatibility, allowing the memory to be disassembled and displayed without being obscured, which was also tested with the Intel Core Ultra 5 245K.

FSP MP7 Black Specification:

Intel Feet: LGA 1851 / 1700 / 1200
AMD feet: AM5 / AM4
Dimensions: 123.8 x 123.5 x 153 mm
Weight: 905 g
Number of heat pipes: Ø6 mm x6
Copper Base: Soldered Copper Base (Flat)
Fan size: 120 x 120 x 25 mm
Maximum RPM: 1800 RPM ± 10%
Maximum airflow: 76 CFM ± 10%
Maximum wind pressure: 2.1 mmH₂O ± 10%
Fan Power Supply: PWM 4-Pin
FSP High-performance thermal paste is included.

Allhan FSP MP7 Black Dual-Tower, Six-Heat-Pipe Cooling Tower Unboxing

Taiwan's major power supply company, FSP, has been showcasing their upcoming new line of air-cooled tower cooling related products, and this time the author is going to unbox and test the highest-end model of their first batch of air-cooled tower cooling products, the MP7, only that the integrated water-cooled product ...., which was displayed at COMPUTEX 2023, seems to be not yet available. Doesn't seem to be out yet?

The MP7 series is available in two versions: the BLACK version with no light, and the ARGB version with a lighted fan. However, the fan pressure and airflow of both versions are the same, so whether or not there's a difference in cooling performance depends on whether or not someone has tested both versions at the same time.

The ARGB version of the tower is the normal silver aluminum color, while the Black version has the all-black design, so it's up to you to choose how you want to color-coordinate your setup.

∆ FSP MP7 Black.

∆ Basic product features.

∆ Product specification.

 

The FSP MP7 Black is a dual tower, six heat pipes and two fans, and the fans are pre-installed at the factory. The tower dimensions are 123.8 x 123.5 x 153 mm, which means that the entire height of the air-cooler is around 153 mm.

From the side, the entire tower is shifted to the left to avoid covering the RGB memory lighting and to facilitate the disassembly of the memory, and the entire air-cooler is blackened, whether it's the heatpipes or the cooling fins.

Two 12 cm fans with speeds of 800 ~ 1800 RPM (PWM) ± 10%, maximum airflow and pressure of 76 CFM and 2.1 mmH₂O, both fans require only 4-Pin PWM power supply and are equipped with cables for connection, making it easy to use with the entire line of installed machines.

The height of the ∆ FSP MP7 Black air cooling is 153 mm.

∆ Air-cooled tower offset.

∆The top is equipped with a brushed trim cover to cover the top of the heat pipe.

∆ Both fans are equipped with serial cables for easy wiring, and the fans only need PWM slots to control the rotation speed.

 

The official website lists the use of anti-gravity heat pipes, meaning that it can also be installed in a normal chassis can also be normal conduction of heat dissipation, six Ø 6 mm diameter heat pipes are also all black-plated to maintain the appearance of the integrity of the color scheme can also be effective in preventing oxidation caused by the appearance of the decline in the score of the situation, the copper bottom of the contact surface of the pre-patched anti-scratch protection stickers, in the heat dissipation paste on the first before the first to remember to remove it!

∆ Remember to remove the protective film.

∆ Copper base display with nickel plated finish.

 

In addition to the standard Intel and AMD snap-on kits, there is also thermal paste, L-drivers, and long screwdrivers.

The orange sleeve generation is for AMD AM4 and AM5 foot swaps; the purple and orange bags are for Intel LGA 1851 / 1700 / 1200, and each sleeve is identified by a compatible pin number.

∆ Accessories at a glance.

The FSP High-performance Thermal Paste that comes with the ∆ accessory can be used about two to three times.

∆Intel's installation backplane can be adjusted according to the LGA 1200 or 1700 feet, LGA 1851 platform can be synchronized with LGA 1700.

 

The FSP MP7 Black features a user-friendly installation design on the official website, and the actual assembly process is really not that difficult. The tower itself has already been installed on the tower when it was shipped from the factory, so gamers only need to install the fastener set at the end of the motherboard and then lock the tower onto the fastener as a whole.

To lock on the snap-on fittings, simply thread the long screwdriver from the kit through the small hole in the top of the cooling fins to lock onto the spring nut to secure the snap-on fittings.

∆ Practical installation demonstration.

∆ Normally, the RGB memory installed in the second and fourth slots will not be blocked, but it may need to be adjusted if the first slot is to be installed.

 

FSP MP7 Black Thermal Performance Measurement

The FSP MP7 Black dual-tower air cooler was installed on a barebones test platform with Intel Core Ultra 5 245K processor and ASRock B860 Steel Legend WiFi motherboard. During the testing process, the fan slots were set to run at full speed in the motherboard's BIOS, and the test scenario was an air-conditioned room with an air-conditioning unit about to arrive at 20°C in Taipei, Taiwan. The test was conducted in a closed room with an air-conditioner group coming to Taipei at 20°C. It is difficult to control the ambient temperature in a normal room, so it is for reference only.

We use AIDA64 FPU and Cinebench 2024 multi-core test to simulate the temperature data under extreme load condition, and Black Myth: Wukong performance test tool at 1080P resolution to present the game running condition, and HWiNFO64 to collect the data. The maximum temperature and power consumption of the CPU Package are recorded. The thermal paste is applied in a nine-dot pattern and then smoothed out with a spatula.

Testing Platform

Processor: Intel Core Ultra 5 245K (Power Delivery Profile_Intel Default Mode)
Cooler: FSP MP7 Black (full speed)
Motherboard: ASRock B860 Steel Legend WiFi (BIOS version: 1.21)
Memory:Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5 RGB Limited Edition 8000MT/s 48GB (2x24GB)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Founders Edition 8GB
Operating System: Windows 11 Professional 24H2
System disk: Kingston NV3 2TB
Power supply:MONTECH TITAN PLA 1000W
Case: STREACOM BC1 Benchtable V2
Graphics driver: GeForce Game Ready 565.9

 

I updated the motherboard's BIOS version to version 1.21 and tested it with this motherboard's default settings: XMP_on, fan speed_full, and stood the bare platform upright to simulate the anti-gravity scenario of installing it in a chassis.

After thirty minutes of AIDA64 FPU in Intel Default Mode, the CPU Package temperature peaked at 75 °C; the CPU Package power consumption was 154 W, and the CPU temperature was 74 °C maximum.

The Black Myth: Wukong performance test tool, which simulates a game run, saw the CPU Package reach a maximum temperature of 51 °C; the CPU Package consumed 62 W, and the CPU temperature reached a maximum of 52 °C in one round of testing.

1. AIDA64 FPU_30 Minute
2. AIDA64 CPU_30 Minute
3. Black Myth: Wukong 1920 x 1080(FHD)_1 Round
4. Cinebench 2024 Multi Core_1 Round

• CPU temperature is measured by the diode in the slot to measure the internal (core) or external (case) temperature, but there is no way to know exactly whether it is the internal or external temperature that is measured, and most monitoring software uses this item to display the CPU temperature.
• CPU Package temperature is recorded by all digital temperature sensors (DTS) in the package as the average of the maximum temperature over 256 milliseconds, which is the CPU temperature observation value recommended by HWiNFO64, and is used as a benchmark for overheating and downclocking of the CPU.

∆ Thermal performance.

 

Conclusion

The flagship product of the first wave of air-cooled tower models, the FSP MP7 Black, is designed with a blacked-out tower and no-light fan, with a brushed metal cover to bring a nice visual effect to the top cover, which is believed to be able to strike a chord with low-profile gamers. In addition to the cooling fins and the fan itself, even the conduction tubes are blacked out, so the only thing that can be optimized is the external appearance. The only place that can be optimized is the fan mounting wire! It would be more complete if it was also blacked out.

The overall height of this air-cooled tower is 153 mm, with six Ø6 mm heatpipes and dual-tower dual-fan specification, the maximum temperature did not exceed 75°C in the actual test on the platform with Intel Core Ultra 5 245K processors and B860 motherboards, if you are just playing games and other daily use, this air-cooled with Intel Core 9 285, Ultra 7 265 should also be able to hold down the pressure, but if there are full-core computing and rendering needs, it may be best to go for water cooling. Ultra 9 285, Ultra 7 265 should be able to handle it, but for full-core computing and rendering, water cooling is probably the best.

However, most of the gamers who will choose the dual-tower six heatpipes are looking for cost-effective installations, so the processor of choice should be the Intel Core Ultra 5 225 / 235 / 245K models, so this time I took the Core Ultra 5 245K to conduct real-world tests for everyone's reference.