How To Install Arctic Freezer 33

Manufacturer: Arctic

Great britain price (as reviewed): £31.99 (inc. VAT)

US cost (as reviewed): $32.08 (exc. taxation)

Unless you've been hiding under a rock or are new to the PC hardware scene, you'll likely know Chill and its long-standing focus on and relative success with CPU cooling. It traditionally offers excellent value across the range including with its recent foray into liquid cooling too with the Liquid Freezer 120. Its latest air coolers jump on the eSports bandwagon, but aside from slightly racy looks, the Freezer 33 eSports One is simply a compact affordable air libation that's a lot like Arctic's other coolers. That'south not a bad thing though.

At just over £30, this is clearly aiming for prime number time, equally there are numerous coolers aiming at everything from a Core i3 to an octa-cadre Ryzen 7. In fact, the Freezer 33 eSports 1 also sports LGA2011 and LGA2066 support, but how information technology fares with our monstrous Core i9-7980XE remains to be seen.

At 150mm tall, this is a fairly compact cooler that will likely exist ane of the ameliorate options in height-limited cases unless you spend more than and become for an AIO liquid cooler. A unmarried 120mm fluid dynamic bearing fan is included in the box, which spins up to 1800rpm with a dissonance rating of 0.5 sone, which is roughly equivalent to 24dBA. As this is PWM-controlled and can dip downwards to merely 200rpm, when your PC is nether low loads, you'll probable not hear it outside your case. Chill has too been kind plenty to include clips for a second fan as well as an boosted port on the 4-pivot PWM cable so you tin easily convert the Freezer 33 eSports One into a dual-fan, push/pull cooler by calculation a second 120mm fan.

The quad 6mm heatpipes make direct contact with the CPU and at that place are minimal gaps betwixt them too. You get a minor pouch of Arctic's MX-4 thermal paste, which is enough for a couple of applications. Installation is a tad fiddly, though, with pins passing down through plates that spiral to the cooler earlier securing to backplates for LGA115X and AM4 or LGA20xx socket threads. As the screws aren't fixed into the plates, you'll probable find it much easier to install the cooler with the motherboard out of the example, or at the very least laid on its side. It'due south a secure mount, though, and at that place are relatively few parts to deal with.

The heatsink is finished in blackness with 49 fins stacked fairly densely with folded edges to directly airflow. Arctic claims a recommended maximum CPU TDP of 200W, so this should exist fine with mainstream overclocked CPUs and stock-speed HEDT CPUs, while overclocking the latter volition quickly encounter the Freezer 33 eSports 1's cooling ability become stretched.

Specifications

Compatibility Intel: LGA 20xx, LGA 115x, LGA 1366, LGA 775; AMD: Socket TR4, Socket AM4, Sockets AM3(+)/AM2(+)/FM2(+)/FM1
Size with fans (mm) 123 ten 88 x 150 (Westward x D 10 H)
Fan(s) 1 x 120mm PWM, 200~1,800 RPM
Fan size (mm) 25 10 25 x 120
Stated noise 0.5 sone
Extras Additional fan clips, ii-way PWM splitter