Arctic Freezer 7

[Hyper]

Hey all,

Just ordered one of these since my Intel stock cooler has been in place for too long.

Orginally I only fitted it temporarly after I removed my water cooling but it has been in there ever since. I had the side off my case the other day and noticed that its making most of the noise in there.

So does anyone own one of these coolers and how quiet are they?

Thanks, Sam

 

[Luigi]

i have one, depends what cpu you have, but on speed control myns silent holding my q6600 @ 3ghz under 55 degs

 

[Hyper]

I only have a C2D E4300 which runs at 3ghz on stock volts.

 

[Luigi]

should be fine then

just enable speedfan or whatever your mobo has, otherwise it is loud

 

[rrjwilson]

I have an Asus Striker Extreme motherboard and my Q6600 runs at 3GHz at stock voltage. I attempted to attach the Freezer finding the Mosfet coolers were WAY too big and it would fit. Some plier modifiying later and she fitted snugly in between.

As air coolers go, this seems to be pretty brilliant. My Quad runs 54,54,49,52 at idle (temp each core) and 69,69,69,69 at full load. Not too shabby.

 

[Mr. Smith]

rrj - those temps are high for stock volt 3 ghz q6600! Or am i just too used to w/c?

AF7 is supposed to be good for a bargain priced cooler...

 

[equk]

I have one but it's only running at 1200-1500rpm as I have a 120mm behind it pulling air thru and out of the case.

 

[Luigi]

Also RRJ how did you get your striker to overclock quads? did you use the massive amount of voltage bumps i had too? or is 3ghz the max you can get?

 

[ionicle]

rrj - those temps are high for stock volt 3 ghz q6600! Or am i just too used to w/c?

AF7 is supposed to be good for a bargain priced cooler...

your too used to watercooling

thats fine for a stock voltage C2D, both of mine ran at about that with a scythe infinity on them...

 

[MikeEnIke]

your too used to watercooling

thats fine for a stock voltage C2D, both of mine ran at about that with a scythe infinity on them...

Ouch really? My little e6600 is running hotter now that it's getting warmer but still runs about 30*C idle and reaches maybe 45-50*C under load. In the winter it runs almost ambient at load and maybe 40*C load.

 

[ionicle]

i never had mine on idle, due to F@H, but they were always around 55 - 60 *C

 

[wigseryc]

Mine keeps my 3.2Ghz E6600 just shy of 40 degrees idle.

Well worth £15 or however much they are these days..

 

[kendo]

Mine keeps a 9450 at 23c idle/stock. They're effective but it's a bit of a tight fit on my Gigabyte m/b due to their big heatsinks. Definitely worth every penny but not pretty.

 

[rrjwilson]

Also RRJ how did you get your striker to overclock quads? did you use the massive amount of voltage bumps i had too? or is 3ghz the max you can get?

Nope nothing mate

Literally restore defaults as it stalls and won't boot BIOS. Up the FSB and DRAM speed then hit F10 and enter.

Think i'm a lucky one.

 

[Luigi]

you are, myn had to have serious volts pumped to it, and then temps went shooting up

 

[rrjwilson]

But then again I can't seem to get a stable OC over that regardless of voltage either.

PS thats why im gonna WC this baby Muhahahahahaha

 

[Luigi]

You gna get water on the mobo? search google for striker pwns evga 680i or something like that, it has all the settings for a 450mhz fsb.. but it gets toasty.