And then there is also the downside in terms of physical dimensions and interference, but this should not be an issue in most competent ATX cases, especially if you are happy with front installation. Since the Raptor Lake 13900K actively adjusts in a way that seeks its top safe temperature, we’ll compare performance instead by looking at total benchmark scores and clock speeds maintained. In addition, it hides both the A-RGB and PWM cables of your radiator fans thanks to a well thought-out cable management system. The pump's main problem is a high pitched buzz around 1550+ Hz, plus the pumps housing resonating/vibrating with anything it touches. I still feel that Arctic missed an opportunity by not making the VRM fan LED lit also, but the clean cable management thanks to just two trailing wires is absolutely superb.

The Liquid Freezer II ends up as the top-performer on the bench when noise-normalized to 35dBA across the board. That’s why it has an asterisk next to it – the data isn’t directly comparable, since liquid temperature is less in control at this low of a static pressure. Included with the Liquid Freezer II are three 120mm P Series fans, preinstalled to the radiator for convenience. There’s also nothing to hold the plate in place while installing the screws, and those screws install at an angle that’s potentially annoying for paste spread.Today’s review has been the most-requested review from our commenters for about 6 months now, and it’s not even a piece of silicon. They can be connected to the splitter cable (which is sleeved alongside the tubes), but we prefer connecting our fans directly to the motherboard to exercise more control over the fans. The next measurement is at 100% radiator fan speed, with the radiator mounted approximately 1cm away from the edge of the board. This not only leads to significantly lower noise levels at low and typical loads, but also a much lower power consumption for all components of the AiO. Arctic uses a plastic style for the tubes which is not as clean or premium looking as some of the all-black nylon braided designs from the likes of Fractal and NZXT.

I also had one fan which wobbled causing it to constantly scrape against the radiator and had to be loosened to the point of almost falling off. Before putting this chart up, a few important points: First, this is all relative, so our measurement points aren’t designed to test the motherboard, but rather to test the cooling capabilities of the CPU cooler on top of it. So yeah fully approve of this cooler, only one issue was i needed a little help mounting it as the backplate for my motherboard, a Asus Crosshair VI Hero ins't stuck on ofcourse and the mount for the Heatsink is in multiple parts so you need at least 3 hands to mount it, 1 for the back plate, 1 for the first mount and screw and 1 for the screw driver.Big air coolers are still close by in performance, so for builders who have their heart set on the Noctua NH-D15 or similar, those coolers aren’t invalidated by the Arctic solution.

What we’re saying is that this test will create an objective hierarchy, but that in all reality, a couple degrees here-and-there from the cooler won’t really matter much when considering the VRM is unlikely to melt itself in the majority of instances. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Arctic's fans have several noise profiles, but the main issue is a sinusoidal tone happening in many RPM ranges, worse and slightly higher frequency (~400 Hz) on the 120 mm ones but also present on the 140 mm ones.

I ended up just separating the included fans from the daisy chained cable, replaced them with T30 fans, daisy chained those fans together with their built in daisy chain system, and attached an extension on the last fan to the cpu header and then plugged the pump cable to the pump header. I use one for my 5800X, getting approximate 10-15C lower temps at max compared to my previous NZXT Kraken X72. Unlike most other all-in-one liquid cooling manufacturers, we rely on 38 mm thick radiators with a high fin density. Only issue i had with installation was the pump mounting bracket was hitting the thermal heatshield covering my NVME drive below it so it had to be removed to get the bracket in place, it does not seem to have affected the performance of my NVME in any way. The Liquid Freezer II features a completely newly, in-house developed PWM-controlled pump with a copper base, improved efficiency, a low power usage and quiet operation.

with curve optimizer, and really this fan that blows the vrm does a good job,i was so satisfied that I went and I got the freezer II 120 for the 2700x I have on the third pc. Scelto per l'affidabilità dell'azienda (sono uno dei paranoici che pensa alle perdite) il prodotto arriva assemblato per quanto riguarda il comparto ventole, si sente subito al tatto che il materiale è di buona qualità. Gaining an extra 50MHz over a high-end air cooler is about the difference you can expect if you’re not planning to overclock. We just don’t think that’s going to be very common, and while it gets praise for doing a good job and chart-topping, we don’t think it should be the deciding factor in the purchase. This means there’s always airflow over the VRM heatsink in all the CLC tests, whereas testing it on the table, away from the VRM, would paint a picture of Arctic’s VRM fan having a higher relative impact since you’d be taking away all cooling otherwise.