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Now it’s the Freezer 64 from Arctic
Cooling that will be put to the test, it’s a copper
based HS with copper heatpipes and aluminium fins. The first
thing that attracted my interest was the design of the fan.
It lacks a outer housing, the idea of that design is that
the fan will produce less noice, since it’s virtually
hanging freely in the air. Pretty much like the average
table fan.
Specifications: As you can see this cooler is much lighter then the Zalman counterpart, but will it be able to hold it’s own against the 918g Copper monster from Zalman? The freezer comes with a Amd A64 mount for sockets 754/939/940, a Arctic cooling sticker and some thermal compound. Similar to the Zalman heatsink, socket A has been omitted. The base of the Freezer has a pretty rough look, with some machining marks on it. But when I scratched it with my nail it felt pretty smooth.
Installation: The installation of the Freezer 64 was pretty straightforward, it fits just fine on the stock retention frame on the A8N. Just hook the clips onto the latches, and pull the lever over.
I had one concern while installing this heatsink, the top PCIe slot on the Asus A8N Sli Deluxe is located very close to the Cpu socket. And because of the angle of the socket I was afraid that there wouldn’t be enough clearance between the X800XL and the Freezer. It was a tight fit as you can see in the picture below, but it does fit. Personally I would have preferred that the heatsink had been designed so that the fan on the freezer had pointed to the rear of the case, I imagine that would have been the optimal thermal solution, however as the fan is pointing upwards, heat will rise, so its certainly not all negative.
Now let’s go on to the
testing of the Heatsinks.
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