Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro: are they that good?

dagwoood · 2 Apr 2006 at 15:55

I have an Akasa AK-859 HSF and wandered whether I'd see much difference temperature wise if I put in an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro.

My current temps aren't high, I just wandered whether I could get them down some more(31ish idle, 45 +/- 2 degrees under load).

Cheers, dagwoood.

Messiah Khan · 2 Apr 2006 at 16:02

I just installed one yesterday, and its knocked about 10-15 degrees off the stock cooler. It also allows me to run it at 45% of the default fan speed(Using speedfan), which makes the cpu load temp around 44-45, but the fan is absolutely silent.

dagwoood · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:47

Thanks for that messiah khan.

Gribs · 3 Apr 2006 at 13:45

They're excellent. Mine keeps an opty 144 @ 3ghz and 1.46V at 40C under load and the noise isn't noticeable (it's on auto speed settings in the mb's bios)

dagwoood · 4 Apr 2006 at 22:45

Gribs said:
They're excellent. Mine keeps an opty 144 @ 3ghz and 1.46V at 40C under load and the noise isn't noticeable (it's on auto speed settings in the mb's bios)

Thanks for the input Gribs; sorry for the delay in getting back to this thread

I've fitted one today, and even though the thermal paste hasn't had time to burn in yet, my temps have dropped. It's idling at 29 degrees in a warm room and under load it hasn't reached 40. Well pleased :cool:

The B.A. · 6 Apr 2006 at 12:57

dagwoood said:
I've fitted one today, and even though the thermal paste hasn't had time to burn in yet, my temps have dropped. It's idling at 29 degrees in a warm room and under load it hasn't reached 40. Well pleased

Put 1 on my 3800x2 and it too idles at around 29 - 30 degrees, my old XP2500 used to idle at 49 degress!!

Vegeta · 6 Apr 2006 at 13:02

Yeah its really good, apparently it gets better because the Thermal stuff takes 200hours to get properly settled.

booyaka · 6 Apr 2006 at 13:05

fitted one about 3/4 weeks ago and i have sent idle drop about 3 degrees over that period of time. Must be the thermal stuff settling down also.

My 3700 o/c to 2.7ghz idles around 29 and maxes out at 41/42.

Vegeta · 6 Apr 2006 at 13:10

Plenty of room for error there, as 60C is where the danger starts - and even at that nothing really happens just AMD being safe - they will probably start dieing at 70-80C imo.

gunner · 6 Apr 2006 at 13:27

Yes they really are brilliant mine keeps [email protected] (1.52V)

27-8C Idle and 37ish full Load....GREAT cooler

Roll · 6 Apr 2006 at 13:57

The Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro is an excellent cooler, but the Akasa you've already got is up there with the Freezer 64 Pro in terms of performance.

I suppose it comes down to what you think the benefits of changing would be.

Nikolic · 6 Apr 2006 at 15:12

I've also got my eye on one, I just worried it's not going to fit on my MB. I've got an Abit AV8 if that helps anyone?

I particually like the low price of it, and also the easy installation.

turbotoaster · 6 Apr 2006 at 16:06

when it comes to single core chips they are very good, when ya start trying to get 3ghz dual core, temps start getting a biit toasty though

PARUK · 6 Apr 2006 at 18:25

Nikolic said:
I've also got my eye on one, I just worried it's not going to fit on my MB. I've got an Abit AV8 if that helps anyone?

If you go for the natural orientation on the AV8, then it fits fine but the fan frame overhangs the first RAM slot. You can still insert/remove that first stick without taking off the cooler though - it's just a bit tight.

Nikolic · 6 Apr 2006 at 19:54

PARUK said:
If you go for the natural orientation on the AV8, then it fits fine but the fan frame overhangs the first RAM slot. You can still insert/remove that first stick without taking off the cooler though - it's just a bit tight.

I've only got two sticks of ram, so I can just use the second pair of slots. Thanks for the help.

dagwoood · 6 Apr 2006 at 20:57

Roll said:
The Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro is an excellent cooler, but the Akasa you've already got is up there with the Freezer 64 Pro in terms of performance.

Really, that surprises me. The Arctic cooler is giving lower temps and they are still slowly coming down. I'll have to wait a while yet to get 200 hours worth of heat through it for it to settle.

I think a big factor is how the air is vented away from the CPU to the fans at the back of my case; blowing the warm air out straight away and not giving the air the chance to recirculate around my case.

I'm well pleased with it

Roll · 6 Apr 2006 at 22:10

Well, the Akasa is certainly still one of the best coolers around, if not quite as good as the Freezer 64.

Take a look at this review:

Review

dagwoood · 7 Apr 2006 at 00:34

Roll said:
Well, the Akasa is certainly still one of the best coolers around, if not quite as good as the Freezer 64.

Take a look at this review:

Review

Roll, I would agree with the guy who reviewed the Akasa in that it performs well when set on it's lowest speed, but from my experience the Freezer performs better in my system. It's also a lot quieter. When you're doing something CPU intensive and you have to turn up the fan speed, the Akasa is noisy, especially at full speed.

kdd · 7 Apr 2006 at 02:32

The freezer 64 is great value for money and about as good a heatpipe cooler as you will ever need.

kidloco · 7 Apr 2006 at 08:45

as above, you can get better cooling if you spend twice as much. but for a couple of degrees is it worth it.

well impressed with mine, keeps my overclocked opteron around 30 all day long.