Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro: are they that good?

[dagwoood]

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.

 

[dagwoood]

Thanks for that messiah khan.

 

[dagwoood]

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

 

[dagwoood]

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

 

[dagwoood]

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.