Thermalright Frozen Prism

Joxeon · Thursday at 15:08

At just £50 in the UK for a 360 AIO this looks like a great option for those wanting an AIO on a budget.

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Zeebedy · Thursday at 17:22

I use the ThermalRight AQUA ELITE 360 V3 AIO and it does a fantastic job on the CPU and I paid £49 new!! :eek:

Gray2233 · Thursday at 17:29

Thermalright have been absolutely demolishing the competition lately, it's becoming very difficult to recommend anyone else.

BornEvil · Thursday at 17:38

It does seem decent for the price, I might buy one just to play around with.

Been building PCs for over 20 years and never owned an AIO

pastymuncher · Thursday at 18:53

It's sad that many have never heard of them but they have been around far longer than the likes of Noctua. Back in AMD's socket 754 days Thermalright were by far the best coolers to get with the XP90 and XP120. It's really good to see them making a resurgance and making everything else look massively overpriced.

Gray2233 · Thursday at 19:17

pastymuncher said:
It's sad that many have never heard of them but they have been around far longer than the likes of Noctua. Back in AMD's socket 754 days Thermalright were by far the best coolers to get with the XP90 and XP120. It's really good to see them making a resurgance and making everything else look massively overpriced.

I had a True Spirit 140 that I used for many years dating back to 2012 or so, fantastic HSF for the price at the time and it took good care of a heavily OC'd 3570K. I had a Thermalright HSF prior on an A64 4800 too that worked a treat, I can't for the life of me remember the exact model though.

I'm glad they're making a come back, too many excellent companies have vanished over the years.

BornEvil · Thursday at 22:45

pastymuncher said:
It's sad that many have never heard of them but they have been around far longer than the likes of Noctua. Back in AMD's socket 754 days Thermalright were by far the best coolers to get with the XP90 and XP120. It's really good to see them making a resurgance and making everything else look massively overpriced.

Yeah, I still have my XP120 in the attic somewhere.

It was top dog in S478 P4 days, best blow down fan heatsink, before tower coolers become a thing.

Think I also had a Ultra 120 at some point.

Joxeon · Thursday at 23:25

BornEvil said:
It does seem decent for the price, I might buy one just to play around with.

Been building PCs for over 20 years and never owned an AIO

I picked up the arctic freezer III RGB 360 for £76 earlier this year when they had that launch promo going but if I hadn’t then I’d be all over this.

Hotwired · Thursday at 23:31

Hah, that's less than a 120 used to cost.

On checking, it's still less than many 120's STILL cost.

Gray2233 · Friday at 00:21

Joxeon said:
I picked up the arctic freezer III RGB 360 for £76 earlier this year when they had that launch promo going but if I hadn’t then I’d be all over this.

They're still a fantastic option, and have the distinction of offering decently thick rads and VRM cooling on the CPU mount which I can appreciate.

Still not a bad price either compared to most AiO's tbh, especially from the likes of Corsair where it's a carbon copy of mid-tier crap at best while costing hundreds at times for worse performance.

There's still a market for the Arctic AiO's even with Thermalright dipping a toe in, I can't remember the last time I recommended anything from another company outside of extremely deep discounts.

GoogalyMoogaly · Friday at 20:40

Thinking of getting one of these (frozen prism) but can't decide whether to get the white ARGB version or the black non-RGB version.
My case is white so the white one would make sense from that regard, but I have no interest in RGB (I think I'd have to install additional software to control them, plus my motherboard doesn't have enough ARGB headers). Also GamersNexus seemed to say it could be loud, which I'm guessing is down to the fans, so if I wanted to replace the fans then black ones would be cheaper and probably more variety (and availability).

My other option is an Arctic Freezer III with 15mm fans (as the rad + 25mm won't fit in my case). That would be more expensive and potentially not perform as well with the slim fans.

Gray2233 · Friday at 20:42

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Thinking of getting one of these (frozen prism) but can't decide whether to get the white ARGB version or the black non-RGB version.
My case is white so the white one would make sense from that regard, but I have no interest in RGB (I think I'd have to install additional software to control them, plus my motherboard doesn't have enough ARGB headers). Also GamersNexus seemed to say it could be loud, which I'm guessing is down to the fans, so if I wanted to replace the fans then black ones would be cheaper and probably more variety (and availability).

My other option is an Arctic Freezer III with 15mm fans (as the rad + 25mm won't fit in my case). That would be more expensive and potentially not perform as well with the slim fans.

You don't need to use the ARGB, you can just switch it off or not plug it in and it'll work fine.

GoogalyMoogaly · Friday at 20:53

Gray2233 said:
You don't need to use the ARGB, you can just switch it off or not plug it in and it'll work fine.

Yeah, I thought that would be the case.
Still leaves the issue of white fans being more expensive if I decide I want to replace them (from a performance/noise POV). Would be nice to match my case, but I'd rarely ever see it once fitted anyway. Which I guess means I could also put black fans on a white radiator...

Gray2233 · Friday at 21:00

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Yeah, I thought that would be the case.
Still leaves the issue of white fans being more expensive if I decide I want to replace them (from a performance/noise POV). Would be nice to match my case, but I'd rarely ever see it once fitted anyway. Which I guess means I could also put black fans on a white radiator...

Worth taking a look at the specific fans you'd be interested in, some aren't actually any more expensive than their black counterparts.

GoogalyMoogaly · Friday at 23:55

Gray2233 said:
Worth taking a look at the specific fans you'd be interested in, some aren't actually any more expensive than their black counterparts.

I'm not actually sure what would be best, P12s?

Gray2233 · Saturday at 00:10

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I'm not actually sure what would be best, P12s?

P12's are a good budget option assuming you don't get on with the included fans, pretty sure you can get the white for £5-8 per.

GoogalyMoogaly · Saturday at 00:14

Gray2233 said:
P12's are a good budget option assuming you don't get on with the included fans, pretty sure you can get the white for £5-8 per.

I've seen them for about £8. However you can get 5 of the black ones for £27, which is like £3 more for 2 more fans.

Gray2233 · Saturday at 00:32

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I've seen them for about £8. However you can get 5 of the black ones for £27, which is like £3 more for 2 more fans.

The Arctic BioniX P12 might be worth a look, there's a black and white version if you fancy the aesthetic, although you do pay more for them at around a tenner.