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Artic sending out a replacement one, great customer service again 
Why are Arctic Freezer III AIO's cheap?
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Is there anyway of fitting this
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Into 5.25" drive bays? I have 9 slots so plenty of space, but I can't see any method securing the radiator to the case. Coolermaster Stacker 810
Unless I pack the gap with foam or something like that, or suspend the radiator with zip ties
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Into 5.25" drive bays? I have 9 slots so plenty of space, but I can't see any method securing the radiator to the case. Coolermaster Stacker 810
Unless I pack the gap with foam or something like that, or suspend the radiator with zip ties
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Received my replacement vrm fan from artic this morning, can't fault their support.
Good to hear the support remains good! Glad they resolved things for you.
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Chaps, my good old Arctic Freezer II 360 is a good few years old now and started gurgling suggesting it's been losing fluid so I'm on the lookout for a replacement. It has been a fantastic cooler in its lifetime so obviously I'm looking at the Arctic Freezer III models which appear to have had good reviews, but the prices are so damn good that it's got me worried.
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Look at these, 360mm for £76.99, 240mm for £62.99, 280mm for £69.95, 420mm only £82.99!!! These are really good prices or am I mad!?
Is there an issue with these that I'm not aware of that people are avoiding them?
A bit like motherboards, really. People are prepared to pay a lot for a cooling solution, but unlike motherboards Arctic have not taken advantage of that.
you won't be disappointed apart from the mounting plate, I always been fan of air cooler, just simpler but couldn't say no to this at the price
Mounting plate is not that bad, not great but got it done within 2 mins
I got it fitted on a 9800x3d yesterday, been playing around with pump and fan speeds
Pump at 20% (1300rpm)
Fans at 40% (500rpm)
silent, very impressed with the fans especially. Can can’t get the RGB working.
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Yes I have one. They're fine. No issues encountered.
Reliable? Not sure, not owned it long enough to comment, and also N=1. But nothing on the internet to say it isn't reliable
Guess my 7800X3D deserves some more cooling (upgrading from the Liquid Freezer II 240mm)
And my motto of not recommending PC components that I would never use myself...
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I left pump on stock speeds and just adjusted the fans, pump is silent on my cooler, I would lie to you if I told you what they set to without looking, I think I have them spining around 1000-1200rpm when gaming or doing something and pump full speed, no idea on idle. I think the pump is design to go 80% if fans run less then 40%
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I put my artic pump wire on the built in aio on my asus z790 apex and it don't see it.
Your motherboard(s) is on a PWM slope controlling the pump, I like it to be constant, so it does not ramp up and down under load.
At full speed, the pump is at about 2800 rpm IIRC, just 100% unbearable.
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Well I must be deaf because I can't hear mine, and I run external program once windows loads up to control fans but pump is on default, couldn't be bothered with bios curves, I know how loud pump sounds in AIO and I don't have this problem with this Artic.
Someone uploaded a video of LF3 and if yours sounds like that, I suggest you send it back as is not normal
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This is literally my 1st AIO but I have used D5 and DCC in custom loops before. This AF3 is much quieter that those high power pumps at full speed.
My AF3 360 sounds like that video, but I see the max RPM went up to 4200, mine maxes out at 2800rpm (i checked and confirmed).
I dunno, when people say they are running a pump at full speed (3000rpm+) and say they are silent. this questions my definition of silent lol. BTW my tower is on my desk at ear level, which obviously does not help.
Side note, my unit says 'v2', I have no idea what the difference is but I've seen YouTube unboxings and they have triangle boxes, mine is rectangle
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BTW
If you are using the 3in1 cable, it does explain a lot, as software controlling the fan, also controls the VRM fan and Pump speed.
BTW are you using the 3 in 1 PWM cable supplied with the cooler? cos I am using the spilt cable so i can control Fans, VRM Fan, and Pump separately.
If you are using the 3in1 cable, it does explain a lot, as software controlling the fan, also controls the VRM fan and Pump speed.
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Using 3 connectors, but this morning disconnected all my fans and booted in to bios, then I could hear what you on about, still nowhere near to how it sounded in that video but then microphones usually make sound worse, I could hear pump slowing down if I dropped the %. During PC use I can't hear the pump but I guess must be drawn out by air/fan. In my build the worse offenders are 4080 super fans, absolute garbage on MSI Ventus.
Thanks for doing that, I have installed a few AIO for family and friends before, but the AF3 is my 1st as a daily driver. Its good to get clarification that my pump is not faulty.
My standard for silent is 'as if it was not there', and do my bios curves without a GPU where possible.
At my stupidly low rpm settings, performing well at cooling, 65c cinebench load.
