Arctic cooling is like in the most of computer users minds is the ultimate cooling solution for all heat-producing silicone products, but it is also a company that makes third-party CPU cooling and other products that consider cooling a computer component, but Arctic Cooling as a company is in the normal custom just with the league of other makers like thermal take and even Noctua keeping the cooler silent and enough to bring the temps into an acceptable level.
So we will go a check on the Freezer Pro 7 cooler for Intel’s LGA775 socket. This tower with the fan included cooler with an unusual shape and size of the fan itself the fans fins are tilted in a much steeper angle to give it efficient push of lots of air going inside the all copper and aluminium fins and the copper base keeps in touch of the CPU head and transfer heat as effectively, even the fins in the bottom are shaped to take air down to the nearby power regulators and MOSFET heat-sink more prominent in all modern Intel boards. With okay list of features and even in the website show the efficiency of the cooler in both temps and noise production, but the test are in the individual CPUs that are in idle mode. So with the flaw however in the Cooler, is just the matter that it is only support any LGA775 sockets from Intel so for the AMD fans have to check in the website for any AMD support in any coolers, plus the Freezer Pro 7 uses those cumbersome plastic connectors rather than using the metal screw one that most of the third-party cooler use, first of all the plastic ones are not that good in being fidgeted in a long period of time, saying that you normally update CPU for a living and the last thing you would think of is a broken piece of plastic because of over-use and to add a little bit more there is also no back-plate support for the cooler, but not being that heavy but still being a tower based design it can bend the board eventually breaking it in half.
For the test in the cooling performance we used the QX6850 in idle and load stock setting and also over-clocked settings with the same procedure, first of all the Quad in load temps went well only going 50 degrees and idle in 34 degrees but the fans noise is a little high but not ear scattering, but over-clocking we see a river of crashes when the temp went over 60 degrees in load and also the noise when even louder to keep the temps down. So to be straight to the answer, great for a stock quad cooler, but cannot be a good performer.
