Extremely Quiet
The low speed 92 mm fan reduces the noise level to a minimum.
The patented fan holder is able to practically eliminate the typical buzzing sound of 92 mm fans.
The PWM chip in the motor allows an exact fan speed control over the BIOS. (4 wire)

Powerful cooling
6 Heat Pipes (three used double sided) are able to transfer heat up to 200 Watt. The heat exchanger is built of 42 fins and consists of a surface area of over 4700 cm2 and allows for resistance free energy transfer to air.

Integrated Cooling of Voltage Converters
Air is drawn in from the side of the fan to cool the components around the CPU.
Some air is blown out towards the voltage converters o­n the mainboard with the bent fins at the bottom.

Patented Vibration Absorption
The four rubber connectors o­n the fan case act as a vibration damper to absorb the vibration of the running fan and prevent vibration transfer to the heatsink and the case.

Easy Installation
The cooler is to install without any tools within seconds.

Long Lifetime / 6 Years Warranty
The ARCTIC Ceramic Bearing provides an unmatched Life Time of 137’000h (L10@40°C) resp. an MTBF@70°C of 163’000h and thus a 6 year warranty.


Application:
All Intel Celeron (Socket 775)
All Intel Pentium 4 (Socket 775)
All Intel Pentium D
All Intel Core 2 Duo

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro (LGA 775)

Application: All Intel Celeron (Socket 775). All Intel Pentium 4 (Socket 775). All Intel Pentium D. The Freezer Pro series is the successor of the Freezer CPU Coolers. Lower Noise Level and a Higher Cooling Performance are the main improvements. Extremely Quiet. The low speed 92 mm fan reduces the noise level to a minimum. The patented fan holder is able to practically eliminate the typical buzzing sound of 92 mm fans. Patent No 203 07 981 U1 (Germany). Patent No 10/834 232 (USA). The PWM chip in the motor allows an exact fan speed control over the BIOS. (4 wire). Powerful cooling. 6 Heat Pipes (three used double sided) are able to transfer heat up to 200 Watt. The heat exchanger is built of 42 fins and consists of a surface area of over 4700 cm2 and allows for resistance free energy transfer to air. Integrated Cooling of Voltage Converters. Air is drawn in from the side of the fan to cool the components around the CPU. Some air is blown out towards the voltage converters o­n the mainboard with the bent fins at the bottom.

Excellent product!!!
I’ve built 2 systems and upgraded 1 this past month. On one of the builds and the upgrade, I installed this cooler. The other build used a cheaper cooler that was a PITA to install. This cooler is so easy to install, and makes the build a lot more enjoyable. The cooling it provides is first rate, easily keeping the PC’s idle at 30 degrees Celsius, never above 45 during use. The other bonus to this is how easy it is going to be to keep the fins clean. The customer who is getting this lives on dirt/gravel roads and has a hard time keeping ahead of the dirt build-up. With the way these fins are exposed, a spray of some canned air with a vacuum on the other side will keep this cooler clean.

Effective cooling, but terrible fasteners
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Pros:

1. Superbly efficient cooling, vastly better than many other more expensive coolers.

2. Very quiet. Because this cooler seldom needs to run over 1000 RPM, it is barely audible. But it does become loud if it runs at full speed at 2500 RPM.

3. Lightweight. This is actually a quite important advantage if it doesn’t sacrifice the cooling efficiency. Because most PCs sit in a position with the motherboard standing vertically and the cooler horizontally, heavy coolers cause imbalances. Especially for a cooler like Arctic Freezer that has weak fasteners, the lightweight is even more important because if it were too heavy, it might cause not only an imbalance problem but actually a critical reliability problem (the fasteners might give way, and you end up with a fried CPU).

4. Cheap. But once you look at how this thing is made, you will understand why it is cheap.

Cons:

1. Horrible fasteners, due to poor quality not bad design. See details below.

2. Overall, cheaply made.

3. Did I say horrible fasteners. Absolutely terrible.

The cooling is very efficient. Much better than my ZALMAN CNPS7700-CU. I think Arctic fan’s blowing direction is the secret because it works in collaboration with the case fans to get the hot air out of the case. In comparison the Zalman blows air downward onto the CPU and thus conflicts with the case fans and causes confusion in the airflow. The difference is huge. With Zalman, increasing the fan speed doesn’t really do much. I did direct comparison of these two coolers on the same computer which has a very hot CPU (QX6800 with 135W). While they both idle at the same temperature (about 50°), the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro can control the temperature under 60° on a full CPU load with the fan speed reaching maximum 2500 RPM, but Zalman simply loses it and lets the temperature go above 80° even if the fan runs at a similar speed. The fact that Zalman has a larger fan speaks even more badly about the cooling mechanism of Zalman. Essentially, Zalman simply is unsuitable for this CPU while the Arctic does a fairly reasonable job. Also, Arctic is about 25% less expensive because it uses cheaper materials and is also not as well made. But its better design makes the difference. Incidentally, this design does not seem to be exclusive to Arctic, as Zalman also has models (CNPS9700 for example) that have a similar design. Because Zalman coolers are usually high quality, if you like the design of Arctic Freezer 7, but would like to have it with better equality, you may look into that.

Now, I hate Arctic’s shamefully poorly made fasteners. The problem is not the push-in pin design itself, which is a good design by Intel. If well executed, they can be better than any other fasteners including the screws. The problem is that Arctic made these extremely poorly.

To understand the problem, let me first explain a key aspect of how bush-in pins work.

The key for any push-in pins to work is that the pushers need to have two distinctive positions. The first position is a locked position which prevents the pusher (black colored part in the Arctic) from having any movement relative to the pin (white colored in the Arctic). This is absolutely critical because you must be in this position initially to first move the white (inner) pins into the holes on the motherboard without splitting them. If the pusher is not locked against the pin, you would end up pushing the core of the pusher into the tip of the pin to prematurely split it before it gets into the hole. This will result in an outright failure because once it splits, the pin cannot enter into the hole on the motherboard.

The second position of the black pushers is a free position that allows the core of the pusher to move into the tip of the pin to split it and lock it underneath the motherboard. Naturally, you can only do this after the pin is already in the hole.

Once you understand how the two positions work, installing a push-in pin cooler it is supposed to be simple. The right procedure is: (1) first put the pushers in the first position (the locked position); (2) carefully align the four pins of the cooler with the four accepting holes on the motherboard; (3) GENTLY push down the pushers to maneuver the pins into the holes; and (4) after you have made sure that the all four pins are sitting in the holes, turn the black pushers counterclockwise into the second position (the free movement position) and push them firmly down to split the tips of the pins and lock them underneath the board.

Sounds simple, and it should be. But the problem is that Arctic’s push-in pins are so poorly made that there really isn’t a distinctive locking position. You turn it to the right place, but it doesn’t really lock due to the poorly engineered plastic parts. At the same time, because you don’t see whether the white pin has entered the hole, you have got to use some force to make sure. And this causes a disaster. You easily split the white pins prematurely. High frustration. I hated them intensively. Because I was replacing an existing CPU and could not get the motherboard out, that made the whole thing even more difficult. It took me probably about two hours to get them in. Several times, I actually thought it was impossible and the whole thing was broken already.

Arctic, improve these push-in pins and you have a real winner.

Effective cooling, but terrible fasteners
Pros:

1. Superbly efficient cooling, vastly better than many other more expensive coolers.

2. Very quiet. Because this cooler seldom needs to run over 1000 RPM, it is barely audible. But it does become loud if it runs at full speed at 2500 RPM.

3. Lightweight. This is actually a quite important advantage if it doesn’t sacrifice the cooling efficiency. Because most PCs sit in a position with the motherboard standing vertically and the cooler horizontally, heavy coolers cause imbalances. Especially for a cooler like Arctic Freezer that has weak fasteners, the lightweight is even more important because if it were too heavy, it might cause not only an imbalance problem but actually a critical reliability problem (the fasteners might give way, and you end up with a fried CPU).

4. Cheap. But once you look at how this thing is made, you will understand why it is cheap.


Cons:

1. Horrible fasteners, due to poor quality not bad design. See details below.

2. Overall, cheaply made.

3. Did I say horrible fasteners. Absolutely terrible.

The cooling is very efficient. Much better than my ZALMAN CNPS7700-CU. I think Arctic fan’s blowing direction is the secret because it works in collaboration with the case fans to get the hot air out of the case. In comparison the Zalman blows air downward onto the CPU and thus conflicts with the case fans and causes confusion in the airflow. The difference is huge. With Zalman, increasing the fan speed doesn’t really do much. I did direct comparison of these two coolers on the same computer which has a very hot CPU (QX6800 with 135W). While they both idle at the same temperature (about 50°), the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro can control the temperature under 60° on a full CPU load with the fan speed reaching maximum 2500 RPM, but Zalman simply loses it and lets the temperature go above 80° even if the fan runs at a similar speed. The fact that Zalman has a larger fan speaks even more badly about the cooling mechanism of Zalman. Essentially, Zalman simply is unsuitable for this CPU while the Arctic does a fairly reasonable job. Also, Arctic is about 25% less expensive because it uses cheaper materials and is also not as well made. But its better design makes the difference. Incidentally, this design does not seem to be exclusive to Arctic, as Zalman also has models (CNPS9700 for example) that have a similar design. Because Zalman coolers are usually high quality, if you like the design of Arctic Freezer 7, but would like to have it with better equality, you may look into that.

Now, I hate Arctic’s shamefully poorly made fasteners. The problem is not the push-in pin design itself, which is a good design by Intel. If well executed, they can be better than any other fasteners including the screws. The problem is that Arctic made these extremely poorly.

To understand the problem, let me first explain a key aspect of how bush-in pins work.

The key for any push-in pins to work is that the pushers need to have two distinctive positions. The first position is a locked position which prevents the pusher (black colored part in the Arctic) from having any movement relative to the pin (white colored in the Arctic). This is absolutely critical because you must be in this position initially to first move the white (inner) pins into the holes on the motherboard without splitting them. If the pusher is not locked against the pin, you would end up pushing the core of the pusher into the tip of the pin to prematurely split it before it gets into the hole. This will result in an outright failure because once it splits, the pin cannot enter into the hole on the motherboard.

The second position of the black pushers is a free position that allows the core of the pusher to move into the tip of the pin to split it and lock it underneath the motherboard. Naturally, you can only do this after the pin is already in the hole.

Once you understand how the two positions work, installing a push-in pin cooler it is supposed to be simple. The right procedure is: (1) first put the pushers in the first position (the locked position); (2) carefully align the four pins of the cooler with the four accepting holes on the motherboard; (3) GENTLY push down the pushers to maneuver the pins into the holes; and (4) after you have made sure that the all four pins are sitting in the holes, turn the black pushers counterclockwise into the second position (the free movement position) and push them firmly down to split the tips of the pins and lock them underneath the board.

Sounds simple, and it should be. But the problem is that Arctic’s push-in pins are so poorly made that there really isn’t a distinctive locking position. You turn it to the right place, but it doesn’t really lock due to the poorly engineered plastic parts. At the same time, because you don’t see whether the white pin has entered the hole, you have got to use some force to make sure. And this causes a disaster. You easily split the white pins prematurely. High frustration. I hated them intensively. Because I was replacing an existing CPU and could not get the motherboard out, that made the whole thing even more difficult. It took me probably about two hours to get them in. Several times, I actually thought it was impossible and the whole thing was broken already.

Arctic, improve these push-in pins and you have a real winner.

Awful experience
I don’t doubt that performance-wise this cooler is really efficient and worth the money. ABOUT THE INSTALLATION process though, it may be worth noting that it is highly recommended to install this HUGE fan only if you have a big computer case (no mini nor microATX format) and only if your motherboard in NOT ALREADY INSTALLED IN THE CASE!!! Some high-tech people may find the installation easy, but the regular consumer should be aware of the following:
- the copper platform doesn’t necessarily center itself on the CPU (resulting in non-efficient heat transfer)
- if that is the case, and the user rocks the fan unit back and forth, there is the risk that the thermal paste will already stick to the CPU and yanks it out of the socket!!! Damage has occurred in some cases as I have installed many of those HSF Arctic units!
- check the size specs, it is really huge and some motherboards will not allow you to install this heatsink without interfering with the RAM sockets or other components already present on your mobo!

Beware!!

Great cooler *and* EASY to install
As others have stated, this is a great cooler. It can easily get 10-15C+ cooler than the stock Intel C2D coolers.

The best part about it though from my perspective is how easy it is to install. I have installed other coolers which have *slightly* better performance (maybe 3-4C difference) but were *much* harder to install, such as the Tuniq tower or Thermaltake big typhoon. Not only that but this cooler costs half as much as either of those, highly recommended!

Running a Q6600 @ 3.6ghz (400x9) rock solid with this =)
(idle around 37C and ~58C load)

Works well
I’m not going to fawn all over this fan. I really only got about a 2 degree drop out of it on an E6400 compared to the original heatsink, however, it is quieter. I’m also giving the fan the benfit of the doubt that my GPU (evga 8800 gts) is the main heat culprit in my case, and so it just might be that nothing short of water cooling is going to bring my temps down by much since the air temp is so warm, but its not above spec. My suggestion to anyone thinking of replacing their stock fan because of heat is to make sure your case airflow is good first, and that nothing else is causing the heat problem, because this product won’t help much if your case is full of hot air anyway (unless your just looking to get rid of the excess noise of Intel’s fan.)

Incredible cooling ! A 2-thumbs up unit !
I was surprised when I first powered up my new dual core and the heatsink fan spins a short while and then stopped.


Within windows XP, I brought up a CPU temperature monitor utility program to verify that things were within proper limits. And they were !

So, the heatsink itself does a great job of removing heat from the CPU; without having to have the attached fan running all the time.

Even when the fan on the coolers runs, it is a QUIET fan.
Probably due to the rubber shock-mount setup that the fan attaches with.
Great engineering design!

I build and/or upgrade PCs.

In short order, I switched to using THIS dual core heatsink/fan unit for all my customers.

This cooler over delivers; which is rare these days.

Warranty is 6 YEARS; which is also impressive.

I can’t remember the heatsink/fan I bought that was this quiet and well designed. So this must be it.

frosty the cooler
I have a micro-ATX system in a small case, and the 3GHz P4 I have is a heat generator. The OEM cooler kept things at around 40C at idle, and upwards of 55C when running. After installation of this device my idle temps are generally around 20C and have never seen the high side of 45C even gaming.
One more thing, the OEM pin setup is slick. Works just like the original installation. No taking the MB out to install backing plates.

Awesome Cooler
This cooler dropped my temps by 10c. It’s a mother to install on an
Asus P5n-e sli but it was well worth it for the price and the performance.

Awesome Cooler
This cooler dropped my temps by 10c. It’s a mother to install on an

Asus P5n-e sli but it was well worth it for the price and the performance.

Didn’t expect this result
As previous guy stated, it cools 10-15C better than original heatsink. I would say that in my case the performance is even better. This summer is really hot in here. So my processor temps begun to reach 70-75C because of high room temps. And the noise from Intel fan is veeery anoing at high revs. Begun to worry about my Prescott. Now with this cooler it doesn’t pass 55C at full load for 4 hours straight. Algo fits well inside the case and do not interfiere with other components. So, I recomend it. Good product.

Excellent for Pentium EE (840) dual core
Cools Pentium 3.2Ghz 840 10-15 degrees below Intel target spec under load, and cooler than my former 3.4 Prescott single core with Intel stock heat sink that was in the same case. Fan noise noticable at performance speeds but not objectionable compared to stock fan whine. Very quiet at CPU idle. Auto-adjustable fan very good at keeping CPU temp constant under varying loads. Quick fan speed increase at sudden load jumps decreases CPU temp immediately, probably helped by heat pipe design. CPU mount should be square with case back as fan blows horizontally. Seller is outside Amazon but delivers ahead of schedule. Amazon price beats NewEgg.