Aio Arctic Liquid Freezer Ii 240

Chill Cooling is a company originating from Switzerland and has risen to prominence for their advanced cooling solutions. The visitor was founded back in 2001 and offered some of the best thermal compounds available at the time. Today, cooling products remain the cadre focus of the company, just they also offering a few other products too, such as avant-garde monitor mounts and audio peripherals.

Over the past several months, Arctic Cooling has been picking up from a dry out spell in top-tier CPU coolers, having gone a few years since their previous release. Last year, the visitor introduced the first parts in their their Liquid Freezer Ii all-in-ane liquid cooling series, expanding the range as the months went by. A few weeks ago the company announced the release of the massive Liquid Freezer Ii 420, triple-fan AIO libation that holds not three 120mm fans – every bit is commonly the case with triple-fan coolers – but 3 even larger 140 mm fans. Arctic Cooling ready out to comprehend the market from bottom to pinnacle with their Liquid Freezer Two coolers, and the introduction of a 420mm design has certainly cemented that condition.

In this review, we are taking a look at a couple of Arctic Cooling's Liquid Freezer 2 coolers. We're of course diving into the behemoth 420 AIO cooler, simply too the much more sensible 240mm version of the cooler. How well does such a large cooler perform with regards to thermals and noise? And but how much amend does that make the super-sized cooler over the more normal, widely compatible version of the same cooler? Permit's find out.

Packaging & Bundle

Arctic Cooling supplies the Liquid Freezer 2 series in relatively unproblematic but sturdy recyclable cardboard boxes. The artwork on the box is based on a schematic of the cooler itself, with plenty of information regarding the libation on the behind of the box. Within the box, we establish the coolers and their parts well protected past cardboard inserts and nylon bags.

The parcel supplied with the Liquid Freezer 2 coolers is the same regardless of the cooler'south size. Unfortunately, the MX-4 thermal compound that the visitor advertises to be included is a single dose, not a whole tube. The rest of the bundle consists of the necessary mounting hardware, all in black color. In that location is no newspaper transmission but there is a card with a QR code, which in plough leads to an downloadable manual.

The Arctic Cooling Freezer 2 240 / 420 Coolers

As expected, the main divergence betwixt the 240 and 420 versions of the Freezer II is the size of their radiators and fans. Other than that, the 2 all-in-one (AIO) liquid coolers are identical, using the aforementioned main block and tubing. The cadre design of the coolers is the typical AIO configuration of a single radiator, two hoses, and a block that combines the CPU contact plate and a miniature liquid pump. One major divergence compared to competitive products is that the fans are already installed onto the radiators and everything is pre-wired, with the whole assembly powered by a single 4-pin connector coming out of the block. And while pre-assembly isn't strictly necessary for an AIO cooler, anyone who has assembled a cooler can probably appreciate the fourth dimension saved past not having to line upwardly screws, power cablevision orientations, etc. Furthermore, recognizing that some users may want to reconfigure and reassemble the cooler anyway, the company's designers added regular fan connectors onto the radiator, meaning that i can seamlessly replace the fans if needed.

Arctic Cooling is using high-density prophylactic for minimal long-term evaporation that should last for the lifetime of the libation, with no filling/service ports to be found. The hoses are protected by a nylon sleeve with a circular dual silver thread design. The nylon sleeve also hides the cable that powers the fans. Chromed metallic press fittings are used to secure the tubing on both ends.

The radiators of the Arctic Cooling Freezer Ii AIO coolers are dual-laissez passer cross-flow designs with tiny fins soldered on thin oblong tubes, yet they are not based on the same verbal design that most AIO coolers apply. Regardless of variant, all of Chill Cooling'southward Freezer II radiators are rectangular constructs that are significantly thicker than standard designs, measuring 38 mm thick without the fans and almost 65 mm with the stock fans attached. The 420 version of the Freezer II also sports the largest radiator nosotros have seen used by an AIO cooler to this engagement and comes with three 140 mm fans installed. It is not the longest, every bit there were a few 4×120mm (480) radiators circulating the market over the past few years but, even compared to these, information technology has significantly more heat commutation area. Consequently, instance compatibility may be a challenge for this behemoth.

The main cake assembly of the Freezer II is curt and relatively simple, with i major departure discerning information technology from most competitive products – in that location is a small xl mm fan attached to information technology. This fan has practically zip to do with the cooling of the CPU itself but is meant to provide some airflow to the motherboard's ability circuitry that would commonly exist cooled past the air libation's airflow. Other than that, the assembly includes the copper contact plate and the mini pump.

The square copper contact plate is not machined downwards to a complete mirror finish just is very smooth. It is large enough for nigh commercial processors but will not comprehend a ThreadRipper processor, for which the Freezer II coolers take no stock support for out of the box.