Worth replacing Star Ice with Artic Freezer Pro?

Browncoat · 1 Mar 2006 at 14:29

Does the Thermalright Si-120 offer enough of a performance increase over the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro to warrant its price tag ? With the Si-120 and a decent fan coming in at ~£40 the 64pro seems very cheap.

phresh · 1 Mar 2006 at 17:05

I'd never heard of that Tuniq before but it looks pretty impressive. I like the integral fan design, although i'm unsure if that adds any real benefit other than looking a bit neater.

Has anyone got one of these?

lay-z-boy · 2 Mar 2006 at 12:35

No, i dont think they have hit the UK yet, i will get one when possible though.

The freezer 64 pro is better value than the si/xp-120 and from my experiance, also performs better.

harris1986 · 2 Mar 2006 at 15:37

lay-z-boy said:
You did know you can re-orientate it didnt you?

My x2 4400 hits 2.65ghz, 1.5v stable on the freezer 64, thats without putting effort into getting the oc' right.
Temps are worryingly good too, 29 idle and 34 load
System is dual sp2004 stable for the 2 days i kept it going.

Tbh i think the freezer 64 pro is a very good buy, cheap, quiet and cools very well.

Still, the Tuniq tower is the best aircooler around so try to get hold of one of those.

yes i did know u can re-orientate the freezer but when you do so the contact is less and i was getting silly temps (on my dfi board neways)

lay-z-boy · 2 Mar 2006 at 19:59

harris1986 said:
yes i did know u can re-orientate the freezer but when you do so the contact is less and i was getting silly temps (on my dfi board neways)

Fair enough mate

TTBT is better anyway, but bigger.

harris1986 · 2 Mar 2006 at 22:15

room isn't a issue as i have a Akasa Eclipse 62

this_is_gav · 3 Mar 2006 at 12:40

lay-z-boy said:
Still, the Tuniq tower is the best aircooler around so try to get hold of one of those.

Those looks seriously awesome :eek:

Still... not sure I'd be 100% confident of having 800g+ of hulking metal core hanging from my PCB..... :\