Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro HSF Review

Introduction

Today, I am going to look at a fairly new CPU cooler from Arctic Cooling named the Freezer 64 Pro. This is a cooler designed to fit on AMD Athlon 64 CPUs (Socket 754/939/940). Arctic Cooling does also make a version that mounts on Intel systems called the Freezer 7 Pro for the Intel Socket 775.

In today's testing, I am going to put it up against the Thermaltake K450 which I have reviewed before. The K450 has been my cooler of choice as one is running on each of my FX-51 and FX-55 CPUs, and I had one on my FX-60 test system before this review.

I must admit I was amazed at the size of the cooler when first opening the box; it dwarfed my K450. The interesting thing is that it weighs in at 528g, which is only 100g heavier than the K450.

Specifications

Noise Level
The noise level is measured in Sone (loudness) instead of dB (sound intensity). The loudness depends upon ears response curves and tells you exactly, how bothering a certain noise is.

Thermal Compound
We ship our coolers with the ARCTIC MX-1 thermal compound. This compound hardens during the first 200h while the performance improves steadily. With heating up the paste / heatsink the process can be shortened. The performance is even from the beginning good enough to cool your CPU reliable.

Application:
all AMD Athlon 64 
AMD Athlon X2 up to 5000+
all AMD Athlon 64 FX

Recommended Retail Price (excl. VAT):
34 USD / 28 EUR