X-bit labs

Started by: Dragonsprayer | Date 08/25/07

Comments: 9 | Last Comment:  01/30/08

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1. What a piece of junk! Sure it works so does ice cubes - pack ice around your cpu. Air lock up can also lead to problems -if you flip your system or this device around. The biggest issue is its way too loud to cool hot chips. Why would spend $300 to cool a C2D when a heat sink works fine?

For this to work with a hot cpu like a overclocked quad core the 9cm fan must run at 5000 rpm - ridiculously loud!
Ok - you say lets install a 12cm fan - at 2500 rpm and 3.5ghz qx6700 reaches 80-90c - JUNK!

Compare that to a koolance system at 50-55c for almost the same price. A thermalright ultra-120 is 1/3 the cost and 1/4 the noise with a 1800rpm 12cm fan.
Maybe i had a bad unit? Pain to install and way too expensive - its junk!

Total junk!

2. One, last thing! nice article!

3. I'll confirm these findings since I own one of these. It does well at low loads, but crank a Core 2 duo to 3.73 and watch the temps climb into the 50's under load (1.45v).

Don't even dream of putting a quad on this thing. Money better spent on quality air, or out and out water, even a basic 120.1 or 120.2 would do better than this.

4. Unfortunately, it appears as if you haven't adjusted the Freezone's power adjustment (on the card that comes with it)

If you look at other reviews, you'll notice that there's a little screw or something that you can rotate, which increases the power of the peltiers. In the standard operating mode, the system is practically useful.

But in full-power mode, in the majority of cases the CPU will sit at a couple of degrees above ambient temps!

You should do some more tests & update your review.

:)

5. Typo:
In standard operating mode, the system is practically USELESS*

(as your review shows)

Seriously, check out the full-power mode.

6. pull your fuckin head out of your ass! You must be working for the competition cocksucker! I have had a freezone for the last year and it chills my quad cores very efficiently, look if you can not operate equipment properly you should not be doing product reviews, I also have 12 other friends with freezones and have no toubles and are fully satisfied with the performance and noise levels and an air fan can not compare to the freezone so dont even go there! Maybe you should go back to working at mcdonalds or burger king because I am sure thats were you just came from. Thanks from a real lab tech who works with high end products such as the freezones.

7. Accurate article. The Freezone does work but the bandwidth for sustained load, noise and some design elements is a little lacking. I have modified a unit with a better 120 mm fan (90 cfm, sub 19 db), replaced the CPU block, and properly filled the unit. Results are about a 10C improvement at idle and load. This is what Coolit should have built instead of the cost trimmed and inefficient production model.

8. may work differently on an AMD CPU. what do u think?

9. pfffttttttt

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