Arctic Freezer 7 Pro review

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UriA702

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I purchased an arctic freezer pro 7 for my p4 3.0ht prescott before i get into my review here are my specs

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134

Generic Mid tower case with 400 watt PSU.
Asus p5sd2-x
Pentium 4 Presscott 3.06ghz with HT LGA775
2 gb Buffalo pc-4200 ram
1x 250gb 7200 rpm WDC
1x 80gb 7200 rpm WDC
E-VGA e-geforce 7300 LE
1x lite-on 18x dvd burner
1x lite-on dvd-rom drive

1x pci slot fan 2 slots under video card
1x 80mm side fan (blowing air in)
2x 80mm rear exhaust fan (blowing air out)
1x 120mm front case fan (blowing air in)
1x HD aluminum fan/heatseat mounted under 250gb drive.

I received the Arctic Freezer Pro earlier today. Installed with stock Thermal paste my temps immediately dropped from idling at 33-34 C to 28-30 C.
I decided to remove the fan and swap out the stock paste with some Arctic Silver 5. This is where I went wrong.
Upon removing 3 of the fins from the heatsink bent despite my being extra careful. As well as the bottom portion of the 92mm fan grill. After applying the arctic silver paste, My temperatures went up and are now idling at 30 degrees C and under full load im running at about 37-39C.
I don't have anything overclocked.

Overall I am impressed with the fans cooling ability. I will be ordering a new one (only $20 on newegg) and this time removing the MOBO for installation and being extra careful not to bend any of the heatsinks fins.

If you are planning on purchasing this or upgrading your LGA775 fan to this, I recommend it, MY MOBO temperature dropped about 5 degrees C, and both hard drives dropped about 2-3 degrees C since installing this, Just be extra careful not to break anything, And USE STOCK THERMAL PASTE!, The stock paste provided worked better than AS5. I will be ordering another one and installing it dead stock :-)
 
It wasn't so easy for me, being that its a real tight fit in my case, plug My 20+4 pin to the motherboard wouldn't reach once the fan was in, i had to redirect it around the fan which stretch out the cables quite a bit.
 
Man, you need to re-locate to the Artic to run them Prescotts!

Come on, mine at 2.4ghz idled at 40-42c on stock cooling and went up to 66c with half load. Thats insane, im not sure how Intel expected those CPUs to live long. :confused:
 
I don't know about that, I'm pretty sure speedfan is inaccurate, but according to speedfan, with stock cooler I Idle at 33 and load at around 40-41, and now with the arctic freezer I Idle 29-30 with same load speed, I shouldn't of used arctic silver 5. I was running at 24 idle with stock thermal paste (mx-1) I ordered another cooler and am going to run the stock paste only. I find stock thermal paste to work best, the as5 always requires 20 applications, and a few damages to your fan to get good results, whereas stock paste always performs well.
 
UriA702 said:
I don't know about that, I'm pretty sure speedfan is inaccurate, but according to speedfan, with stock cooler I Idle at 33 and load at around 40-41, and now with the arctic freezer I Idle 29-30 with same load speed, I shouldn't of used arctic silver 5. I was running at 24 idle with stock thermal paste (mx-1) I ordered another cooler and am going to run the stock paste only. I find stock thermal paste to work best, the as5 always requires 20 applications, and a few damages to your fan to get good results, whereas stock paste always performs well.
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you probably put it on wrong. I switched the stock paste to arctic silver 5 and i dropped 1 degree, but that may be innacurate at best. but i did get one of the freezer 7's that dont have a big slab of thermal grease, it looked more like how intel applies it to the bottom, a few small lines.

remember when it was like 55$ on newegg?
 
Those sound perfectly fine to me! i know they are different cpu's but i load at 46c. So to me 37-39c on load is great
 
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