Closer Look

Freezer cooler family boasts pretty traditional design for heatpipe cooling solutions: copper footing with heatpipes going through it. Both cooler models we are discussing today, Freezer 7 Pro and Freezer 64 Pro have 3 heatpipes each. All of them are made of solid copper. The heatpipes go through a set of thin aluminum plates (42 pieces total), and there is a seven-blade fan directing the airflow through these plates:

In fact, Arctic Cooling didn’t suggest anything revolutionary here, however there are still a few things that are absent even by such big names in the cooling industry as Zalman and Thermaltake.

Firstly, I would like to draw your attention to the shape of the three lower heatsink plates: they are bent downwards:

As I have already mentioned above, this simple but at the same time original solution allows directing the airflow towards the power elements on the mainboard thus reducing their temperature as well.

The second know-how from Arctic Cooling implemented in the Freezer series is the soft outboard retention mechanism for the cooling fan. Namely, the fan is fastened to a plastic frame not with screws or any other firmly holding retention. It is hung onto four rubber rods with fixing locks:

This way the fan and the retention frame have very “soft” contact, which reduces vibrations and noise quite significantly. The plastic frame is clipped to the cooler heatsink with the help of special lugs. The lugs catch to a slit on the aluminum plates. You can see it clearly if you look at the cooler from the side: