Arctic Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 Review/overview

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Arctic Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 Review​

[FONT=&quot]Today we will be taking a look at and testing Arctic Cooling’s Arctic Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 CPU cooler. The CPU cooler is 94l x 104w x 127h and 465g in weight. The cooler has 6 copper heat pipes and a copper base, along with 42 fins for heat dissipation. This cooler fits all sockets for Intel except socket 2011, and fits all of AMD’s sockets. It supports CPU’s up to 130 Watts, with a 92mm ultra quite fan. The fan is mounted to the CPU cooler through a latch system, but the fan itself is connected to the latch system with small rubber mounts for noise dampening. It comes with Arctic MX-2 pre applied to the copper base so you do not have to apply your own, making installation that much quicker and less of a hassle. It has a 6 year limited parts and labor warranty with it. The CPU fan use a 4 pin PWM fan header to control the RPM of the fan based on the CPU core temperature. The RPM of the fan can range from as low as 900 RPM to as high as 2500 RPM with a noise level of 0.8 sone, with a fluid dynamic fan bearing.

All the parts for Intel

Front

Rear

Base

[/FONT] The cooler is really well built and is easy to install. You can do this installation yourself seeing as the plastic base holds itself in place so you can attach the heat sink via two small screws. I did testing with this cooler to see how well it can keep a CPU cool. The parts used in this test will be listed below.

Spec’s​

Motherboard - Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Socket 775​

CPU - Intel Core2Duo E7200 at stock clocks & 3.02Ghz​

CPU Cooler/s – Intel Stock Cooler & Arctic Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2​

RAM – Micsys DDR2 2GB 800Mhz​

Power Supply – Blue Star 650 Watt​

OS- Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit​

Hard Drive – Western Digital 250GB Sata 3.0Gbps​

Temperatures​

2.53Ghz Stock Cooler Idle – Core 1- 39 C Core 2- 35 C​

2.53Ghz Stock Cooler Load - Core 1- 55 C Core 2- 51 C​

2.53Ghz Arctic Cooler Idle – Core 1- 36 C Core 2- 32 C​

2.53Ghz Arctic Cooler Load – Core 1- 48 C Core 2- 44 C​

3.02Ghz Stock Cooler Idle – Core 1- 37 C Core 2- 33 C​

3.02Ghz Stock Cooler Load – Core 1- 52 C Core 2- 50 C​

3.02Ghz Arctic Cooler Idle – Core 1- 36 C Core 2- 32 C​

3.02Ghz Arctic Cooler Load – Core 1- 49 C Core 2- 45 C​

So as we can see, at stock clocks idling, the Arctic Cooler beats the stock Intel cooler by 3C. While under load at stock clocks, it beats it by 7C on Core 1 and 7C on Core 2. Which to me seems like quite a large margin, but I did this test 3 times with Noctua NT-H1 thermal compound on both coolers. Now with an overclock from 2.53Ghz to 3.02Ghz the idle temp's didn't differ very much, 1C on each core. But under load using Prime and Intel Burn Test the Arctic Cooler beats the stock cooler by 3C on both cores. Which is a little weird for it to beat it by 7C at stock but only 3C with the overclock. I assumed the stock cooler would go well into the 70's with the overclock, but I guess that cooler is just better than it looks and Noctua TIM must have added a large improvement to it.


This has been my very first review and I hope I did decent. I know it's nothing amazing, but I do plan on doing this more in the future as soon as I can get a 1155 motherboard for my i7 2700k, but until then I will keep using this 775 system. Hope you all enjoyed this. Any critisim is welcome as long as it's constructive and not blasting me calling me ignorant and dumb. Thank you all!!








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[mrdannyp1996]

Really good Review! Thanks for sharing, I am looking to use this in a small home PC very soon with the aim of something quieter than the stock cooler.

 

[Finchpcrepair]

Glad you liked this. It was something very short and sweet. This cooler is really quite even maxed out. It will keep everything very cool even under extreme load and overclocked.