Problems with Freezer 7 Pro

madindehead

madindehead

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I bought myself an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro from Overclockers around a month ago now, hoping to reduce my CPU temps. I had seen plenty of reviews on the site from people saying they were getting nice low idle temps.

However, as I write this, with Core 0 on 19% load it has a temp of 46 degrees C
and Core 1 on 13% load has a temp of 45 degrees C

These do not seem right, for a cooler like this?

I did have some problems initially installing the cooler. Do you think this could have something to do with the thermal paste coming off slightly, or the heatsink not being properly secured to the motherboard?

Just tested my system with Orthos tonight also, with a simple clock to 3.4GHz on my E6850, and CoreTemp was instantly showing temps of 80 degrees C on each core.

If anyone has any ideas for a fix, be it a new cooler, or thermal paste, I would be very grateful to hear them =)
 
It does sound like a dodgy mount, push pins are a nightmare. Only sure way I've found of using them is to install it with the motherboard out of the case, by looking at the back you can see if all the pins have gone in properly.

Should be a thin layer of thermal paste, it's only there to fill very small gaps in the metal surfaces.

My prefered fix is to not use push pins. Thermalright and ek sell bolt through kits, the ones they supply with their heatsinks and waterblocks respectively. Once you've ripped the push pins out and started using these you're home free.
 
I found when i used the Freezer 7 pro that you had to apply a fair bit of pressure on it, untill u heard a nice clunk.

When it is seated properly it is one of the best coolers you can get for the price, i was really amazed at its performance.
 
Thanks. My old heatsink that I removed had some proper screws in it. Would those work as a better fixing maybe? As much as I don't want to remove my mobo, I may have to now. I really want to clock my E6850, as I hear you can get some good results. That was the main reason for getting this cooler. Will give it a shot tomorrow I think to fix it.
 
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro's are brilliant, but they are also highly variable. If you hadn't started your post 'I bought this a month ago' I would have said return it, but have you just noticed these very high temperatures or has something else changed?
 
Right then !!!

Take it off, sort tim etc,
Before you replace it pop off all the little caps to the securing pins, then place the pins in the four holes, push down hard on the cooler & then pop two of the tops back on clicking them in place, Do opposite corners, Top left bottom right sort of thing, Snap the other two on, Jobs a good'en.
For increased performance cable tie a second fan on for Uber push pull air cooling, This is what I do. ;)

Also,
You have got the fan facing the right way so that your push pull cooling matches the fans in your case haven't you ?
 
WJA96 said:
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro's are brilliant, but they are also highly variable. If you hadn't started your post 'I bought this a month ago' I would have said return it, but have you just noticed these very high temperatures or has something else changed?
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Sadly, I didn't get much time to test it before I went away for a few weeks. But when I installed it, it never did feel 100% secure and on.
 
madindehead said:
Sadly, I didn't get much time to test it before I went away for a few weeks. But when I installed it, it never did feel 100% secure and on.
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Then it's not fitted properly.You should be able to pick up the motherboard and use the cooler as a handle to do it;).

I always find it much easier to fit with the fan removed. It's just two clips at the sides and it goes back on very easily.

As Malc30 said above, take it off (you need to rotate the clips 90-degrees to unclip them), rotate the clips back through 90-degrees again, line up the holes and push them in two at a time and HARD. They make a good, firm, click when they engage, and it will feel plenty secure - believe me.
 
I agree... I thought mine was seated properly but it wasnt. You really have to push and get a bone chilling clunk before its seated correctly :)

Side note.... plastic push pins are a bit poor. I can apply pressure to the top to the cooler to reduce temps in core 0 and overall temps by a few degrees. would much prefer to screw mount it. I think im going to lap my cpu and try to remount the cooler just to confirm its performing to its upmost.
 
I think I have solved it!

Removed my motherboard this time, to make sure the pins actually went through properly. Right nuisance they are. Never again. I think my other problem was, the mounting plate for my old CPU cooler was still underneath it. Thankfully, it wasn't fixed, so I moved that, and set to work. Currently running Orthos to check temps, and I now have 54 degrees C at 100% CPU load doing Small FFTs. Does that sound like a good temperature? This is at stock 3GHz by the way =)

Before the CPU would reach 75 degrees C after just a few seconds of that.

Thank you very much for all your help here guys =D
 
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It's sounds OK, the AC7, though much more efficient than the stock cooler is more of a quiet solution than an outright overclocking cooler, mine runs at 62 degrees with my E8400 benchmarking at 3.7ghz, I've got AS5 paste and three 120mm case fans too, if I wanted it down I'd probably have to spend a fair bit more money and still take a noise penalty.
 
Yeah. I'm not hugely fussed on overclocking the thing a lot. The max I might go to is around 3.5/3.6GHz. At least it's a HELL of a lot cooler than before I fixed it =D
 
I had one for about a month till a Tuniq came up cheap on the MM, it was a decent enough cooler for a slight overclock.
 
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