Artic Cooling Freezer 64

[DasFox]

THESE ARE THE TWO I'M CONSIDERING BUT IF THERE IS ANYTHING OUT THAT REALLY STANDS OUT AS THE BEST FOR A 64 X2 I'D LIKE TO HEAR IT.

I'm trying to figure which HSF I want for a 64 X2 3800. Either the Artic Cooling Freezer 64:

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=80&disc=
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835185125

Or the Thermaltake CL-P0200:

http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/cl-p0200silent939/cl-p0200.htm
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835106068

Anyone have any experience with these?

THANKS

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

I have two Freezer 64's: one for my OC'd 3000+ and one for my slightly less OC'd 3400+. They are certainly not the best air solution for heavy OC'ers but the only thing I hear in my rigs are the power supply fans and the hard drive heads scampering back and forth across the platters Temps are good, but not great. I was getting 52-53 under load with the stock cooler on one and a cheap Masscool on the other. With the Freezer, I'm getting mid-40's, and it's soooooooo much quieter.

In short, it's a very nice compromise between cooling and quiet. There's a review here, Driverheaven has one too, as does CDRinfo. In short, I think you'll love it unelss you really plan to OC to the hilt and push everything to its absolute edge. And even then, it would probably be adequate.

 

[Triggerhappy007]

Originally posted by: Hurricane Andrew
I have two Freezer 64's: one for my OC'd 3000+ and one for my slightly less OC'd 3400+. They are certainly not the best air solution for heavy OC'ers but the only thing I hear in my rigs are the power supply fans and the hard drive heads scampering back and forth across the platters Temps are good, but not great. I was getting 52-53 under load with the stock cooler on one and a cheap Masscool on the other. With the Freezer, I'm getting mid-40's, and it's soooooooo much quieter.

In short, it's a very nice compromise between cooling and quiet. There's a review here, Driverheaven has one too, as does CDRinfo. In short, I think you'll love it unelss you really plan to OC to the hilt and push everything to its absolute edge. And even then, it would probably be adequate.

I guess you didn't click on his links before you replied. He linked to the Pro version, while your reviews are from the non-Pro one. I too have the non-Pro version on an Opteron and it's cooling very good for the noise level. It's virtually silent and I get low 30's idle and mid 40's load at 2.6Ghz.

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

Ooops. My bad. Judging by the earlier model, I would expect similar performance. If anyone has an X2 to spare I'd be happy to be a guinea pig

 

[Cheesetogo]

I'd go with the scythe ninja. Similar design, better performance.

 

[bait]

i think the cl-p0200 would be more suitable for less powerful cpus.
i've got it on my nc 3000+, and it did shave off about 3-4 degrees, but i dunno if it's too great for x2. altho nc is one of the hotter cpus at this point in time right?
shrug

 

[DasFox]

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo
I'd go with the scythe ninja. Similar design, better performance.

Hmm never heard of those before, anyone else, besides the ones I've mentioned?

With the X2 3800 I'm not going to overclock it.

THANKS

 

[DasFox]

Forgot I should of mentioned THAT these are the two I'm thinking of at the moment, but if there is something that really stands out as KING for a 64 X2 then I'd like to hear about it.

THANKS

 

[DasFox]

Oh something else I forgot, what about the DIMM slots closest to it? Is there a problem on some boards not being able to get the memory in, because the fan is overlapping the DIMMS? This is the only thing that has me worried now when I read this in a article and saw it in a picture:

http://www.rbmods.com/Articles/Arctic_cooling/Freezer_64/2.php
http://www.rbmods.com/Bilder/Articles/Arctic_cooling/Freezer_64/pic11.jpg

THANKS

 

[Wentelteefje]

I use a Freezer 64 too on my Venice @ 2.4GHz... Even under the heaviest OCCT load it never surpasses 40°C... Awesome coolers... The Freezer isn't going to obstruct any of your RAM slots IMO, it isn't the case with me... (I have a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum...)

EDIT: I wouldn't pick any alternatives, it's as good as a Zalman that costs $ 55! Here can you see it battling other coolers...

 

[DasFox]

I read a article saying its as good as the Typhoon, which is suppose to be one of the top, if not top air coolers.

Yeah the DIMM thing was the only thing holding me back at the moment, having me worried about this.

THANKS

 

[DasFox]

I just contacted Abit and they said from the outer edge of the CPU bracket to the outer edge of the first DIMM on the KN8 SLI board, is just over 1/2 inch, just slighty, but certainly not 3/4 of a inch away.

Anyone that's using the Artic Cooling Freezer 64, do you think from the outer edge of the CPU bracket to your first DIMM slot it is within a 1/2 inch?

THANKS

 

[DasFox]

Looks like after talking to Wentelteefje who was KIND enough to measure that bad boy for me, it seems it will be to wide for me. I'm going to be getting the Coolermaster Praetorian 730 (Silver):

http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/inde...0&other_title=+RC-730+Praetorian%20730

It has 2 80mm fans in the rear, I guess I could take the top one and blow it towards the HSF and the bottom suck out.

I'm going to use Artic Silver Ceramique on the CPU and I think this Thermaltake HSF, the CL-P0200 would be a safer bet:

http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/cl-p0200silent939/cl-p0200.htm

 

[mindless1]

Both are very poor due to crap fans. In the long run it's fairly irrelevant to gain or lose single-digit celsius but having fan that stays quiet long-term, instead of degrading onto failure will more directly effect system and user. Just my opinion, YMMV.

 

[WobbleWobble]

I swapped my Freezer 64 for a Big Typhoon and I regretted it. The Freezer 64 is much lighter and a heck lot easier to install/remove since it uses the stock retention bracket. I expected huge drops from my Typhoon but the temps were pretty much the same. The problem with the Freezer is that if your motherboard CPU orientation is different (like Asus), the CPU fan blows up towards the PSU rather than the exhaust. It's also a very silent cooler at 7V.

I highly recommend it if it fits.

 

[RobDMB]

So on asus motherboards the freezer 64 pro would blow up toward the power supply and not toward the rear exhaust fan?

 

[WobbleWobble]

No, the Freezer Pro fixed this design issue and you can orient the fan in any direction.

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

Originally posted by: RobDMB
So on asus motherboards the freezer 64 pro would blow up toward the power supply and not toward the rear exhaust fan?

Same on Chaintech's (at least on the VNF3-250). It hasn't been an issue though. My PSU has it's own exhaust, so the Freezer blows up, but right into the PSU exhaust and subsequently out the back of the PSU.

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
No, the Freezer Pro fixed this design issue and you can orient the fan in any direction.

Interesting. I may have to check it out myself, just for kicks!

 

[slatr]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
No, the Freezer Pro fixed this design issue and you can orient the fan in any direction.
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Orignally posted by Hurrican Andrew

Interesting. I may have to check it out myself, just for kicks!

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Very true, you unscrew the locking clip and then you can reorient the heatsink retention mechanism.

See step 4 in the install PDF

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/downloads/installation/install_freezer64_pro.pdf

 

[RallyMaster]

I was looking at those two coolers at some point as well. But knowing that Thermaltake is messing up with things lately, I'm going to buy the Freezer64 Pro instead. I have an Abit motherboard so I think i'll just move the two modules into DIMMs 3 and 4.

My Venice idling at 30C right now with the stock cooler. Will the Freezer64 Pro do anything?