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    Artic Cooling Freezer Extreme Vs Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

    I need to know the difference between the Artic Cooling Freezer Extreme and Freezer 7 Pro. so can any one suggests the basic differences these two have between themselves?

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    Arctic Cooling company make a play on their Swiss heritage, but only one can be considered true value. Arctic Cooling has mesmerized with their products released in 2008, starting with their Freezer XTREME line of VGA coolers.

    Arctic Cooling is back at it with another XTREME product, this time for the CPU. The new Arctic Cooling Freezer XTREME is closely linked to the VGA cooler line and design characteristics are shared between the two; mainly a large surface area to dissipate heat. The Xtra large Freezer XTREME uses four heatpipes to channel heat from the processor to a very large area of oversized cooling fins. If you have seen the VGA cooler line, this sounds and looks familiar.

    The Xtra large Freezer XTREME uses four heat pipes to channel heat from the processor to a very large area of oversized cooling fins. If you have seen the VGA cooler line, this sounds and looks familiar.

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    Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Review :

    For performance cooling, the release of the Freezer 7 Pro is what i will suggest. They have provided Freezer 7 Pro with cool toasty Q6600ES. When someone goes better cooling options, they do come with reason; better cooling, something quieter. The Freezer 7 Pro is a claimed merger of the two, with large cooling capacity, and a fan rated for lower DB.

    Arctic Cooling is a major manufacturer based out of Germany. With their comprehensive line of after-market VGA coolers, as well as CPU coolers, they have a very broad product lineup. Arctic cooling has been providing Europe with performance cooling for 6 years now. Recently opening up their North American division and expanding to provide the entire world with their performance cooling products.

    When I got this cooler I was a little surprised, as the box that it comes in is very small and I am used to larger boxes. The box itself is pretty much standard for a retail item, a picture of the unit, some fancy artwork, and features / specs of the unit.

    After opening up the box and taking out the unit, I found that it was of a relatively conventional design. Conventional being three heat pipes that go out and up from the base and then through the fins. The fan is completely isolated from the rest of the body with rubber grommets so that It transmits no vibration through the unit and down into your CPU Motherboard. The fan housing is removable and it simply clips onto either side of the heat sink assembly.

    The bottom surface of the heatsink is a little rough. The fan power connector also comes pre-sleeved, which is a nice addition as it will help to keep your case all neat and tidy.

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    Re: Artic Cooling Freezer Extreme Vs Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

    Arctic Cooling - Freezer Extreme CPU Cooler:

    Arctic Cooling has a new CPU cooler available called the Freezer Extreme that features 8 heat pipes, 226 fins and pre-applied MX-2 thermal paste.

    It also features a push pin installation which eliminates the need for screws which is something new for their coolers.

    It's constructed out of aluminum, keeping the weight to a minimum and the heatpipes act as a stabilzer for the large number of fins on this beast.

    Arctic Cooling estimates a February launch and they are currently in production.

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    Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro:

    The first cooler to grace our new review outline is the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. It's been around a while but it still has a great deal to offer. If it performs admirably you have no choice but to get one. Complementing the price is the Arctic Cooling brand, which is squarely associated with low noise cooling, so unless something very crazy has happened to the design team at AC, this will be a nice, quite cooler. And finally, it doesn't need the motherboard to be removed for installation, which is always a bonus.

    The mounting mechanism is the standard affair you find on the Intel retail cooler. You have four push clips that when rotated into the correct position and pushed down into the surrounding motherboard holes will makes a faint click when fully through. The Freezer 7 Pro is a medium sized cooler, you can at least have full access to these clips for uninstallation if you remove the fan . You then have lots of space to get a screw driver down to the clips to uninstall the cooler.

    The dimensions are 96H X 107W X 43.5D mm, which makes it a pseudo 96~107-ish mm fan. The fan uses a patented anti-vibration system to decouple the fan from it's casing. This helps absorb the vibration of the running fan and prevent its transfer to the heatsink and case. There is much vibration when touching the area where the fan motor is, but on touching the decoupled fan casing there is a substantial decrease in vibration. I've come across these fans from Arctic Cooling before and they never fail to impress from the perspective of noise.

    The Freezer 7 Pro is also called a medium size cooler, the overall dimensions are 126.5H X 107W X 96.5D mm. It sports 42 aluminium fins, 6 copper heatpipes and a copper base. This type of configuration, so to speak, has literally become the standard building blocks for all high performance coolers out there today ; it offers the best possible cooling with respects to both price and weight. Speaking of weight, the Freezer 7 Pro comes in at 520g.

    Build quality is good. The bottom fins are curved to help direct air flow onto the surrounding voltage regulators on a motherboard, but on the review sample these were a little mangled. However, cooling was unaffected.

    The base comes pre applied with some thermal paste, it's actually Arctic Cooling's own MX-1 paste, which has been said to be a better performer than Arctic Silver 5.

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    Artic Cooling Freezer Extreme Vs Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro:

    Arctic Cooling is a name that has become synonymous with PC cooling, and they are famous for cheap but highly reliable products. The famous Arctic Cooling Freezer has found its way to a lot of computer cases, and after almost three years Arctic Cooling has decided to launch a new cooler, the Freezer Xtreme. Unlike its Freezer predecessor, the new Freezer Xtreme is quite bigger and aims at computer enthusiasts and overclockers.

    Unlike Freezer 7 Pro which had a 92mm fan mounted on the heatsink, the new Freezer Xtreme comes with a 120mm fan sandwiched between two large heatsinks. The cooler can be easily pulled out for cleaning, and you actually have to take it out in order to mount the cooler.

    The cooler has a 160 Watts of cooling capacity and comes with an unique twin tower 102-fin heatsink design with four double sided heatpipes. The new Freezer Xtreme measures 130 x 100 x 131mm and weighs 608g, so you might want to measure the clearance on your motherboard before buying this . The cooler can also cool the memory, Northbridge and voltage regulators depending on the motherboard layout and the way you mount it on the motherboard. The copper core comes with pre-applied MX-2 thermal paste.

    The 120mm fan spins from 800 to 1500 RPM and is controlled by a PWM chip. The fan speed adjusts according to the temperature, thanks to the PWM chip in the motor, which enables accurate speed control through the motherboard's BIOS. Dynamic fan speed controlled by the PWM chip is the ideal solution for those who want to install this cooler and stop thinking about processor temperature and fan speed settings.

    The fan has a unique patented fan holder that eliminates the buzzing sound produced by fan vibration and we must note that it is pretty silent, as it usually spins at 800 RPM. It is definitely quieter than Intel's stock cooler and it should be quieter than the Freezer 7 Pro due to the larger fan and lower RPM.

    The new Freezer Xtreme is distinctively larger than the Freezer 7 Pro and just for laughs we decided to visually compare it to Intel's stock fan.

    The core is made out of copper and comes with pre-applied Arctic Cooling MX-2 thermal paste.

    The cooler can be mounted on Intel's socket 775 and AMD's AM3, AM2+, AM2 and 939 sockets. It's been tested on Intel's Core 2 Duo E8400 and to say that socket 775 mounting system is far from perfect. Arctic Cooling decided to somewhat change the mounting system, probably due to the cooler size and weight.

    It doesn’t use the regular push-pin mounting system which is now reserved only to hold the plastic bracket . It works by inserting a white retention pin and then secure it with small black pin. The next step is to mount the heatsink and this is when it gets complicated.

    It sounds simple, as you have to secure the cooler to the black retention clip with two screws. The installation instruction states only that you have to screw those two small screws in, but it doesn’t state that it is a lot like Sisyphus' job of pushing a boulder up a hill.

    You need to remove the ventilator and screw two screws in these holes that are located at the bottom of the heatsink, and these holes need to be aligned with the holes on the retention clip. It would all be nice if those holes aren't located between two large 102-fin heatsinks, and bear in mind that you must have a long magnetic Philips screwdriver and nerves of steel for this job.

    Once you manage to get it mounted, you will be so happy that you probably wouldn’t care about its performance; but after blowing some steam we decided to check its performance, as well. The Freezer Xtreme is a decent cooler, but we expected much more considering its size. It does perform much better than the Intel stock cooler and a bit better than the Freezer 7 Pro, but nothing spectacular.

    It manages to outperform Intel's stock cooler by 6 degrees at idle and by 9 degrees Celsius when under 100% load. This is a great result, which could be even greater on some CPU with a higher TDP. It also shows that it is a great CPU cooler if you have decided to ditch that Intel stock cooler.

    On the other hand, when compared to the 2-year old Freezer 7 Pro, which is cheaper, the situation is much more different. We didn’t measure the sound levels, but it should be quieter than the Freezer 7 Pro, as it has a larger fan which spins at lower RPMs.

    The performance is a bit disappointing as the new Freezer Xtreme outperforms the Freezer 7 Pro by 3 degrees Celsius at idle and by 4 degrees under load. The result might be better on some other CPU but we doubt that it will justify the price difference.


    Conclusion

    The new Freezer Xtreme is a decent cooler if you have decided to replace Intel's stock cooler. It is very quiet due to its size and the size of the fan. We don’t doubt its performance, as dual heatsinks with 102-fins and four double-sided heatpipes that are cooled by a 120mm fan are a guarantee that this cooler will keep your CPU nice and cool, even at 100% load, which is very rare.

    To add a bit disappointed by its performance against the three-year-old Freezer 7 Pro, which is smaller and cheaper. The new Freezer Xtreme is more expensive and a bit quieter than the old Freezer 7 Pro and it does bring certain performance gains, but again nothing spectacular.

    The Freezer Xtreme is currently listed at 1386, while the Freezer 7 Pro can be found at around 756. If you are replacing your stock cooler, and even then e would sincerely recommend the Freezer 7 Pro unless you are planning to do some extreme overclocking where every performance gain counts.

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    Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
    Technical Specification:

    Test Procedure & Noise levels

    The room used for testing by experts with absolutely no electronics switched on gives a 25.6db reading. When they test noise levels, the only running fan apart from the cooler on test is the one found in a Seasonic M12 700W, not even the HDD is on. The sound level 6-inches from the cooler is 30.1db. Anything above 30.1db is attributed to the cooler. The sound level meter used is an Omega HHSL-1 which on paper is very accurate down to 35db but is widely considered just as accurate down to 30db.

    The test system uses a Core 2 Extreme X6800, Asus P5W-DH Deluxe, X1900 XTX, 2GB OCZ memory and a Seasonic M12 700W power supply.

    Noise Comparisons

    All DC fans get there power from the 12V PSU rail which means a fans particular specification are all gathered while running at 12V. Some fans come with fan controller circuitry that essentially use a resister pot which allows you to control the amount of voltage the fan receives. Normally you can go as low as 5V. If you are feeding a fan less than half its original power its going to rotate slower, output less CFM's and produce less noise pollution. When we say a fan was running at 5 or 7V, it means if we turned the fan down and in doing so, cooling performance and noise pollution are affected.

    With their testing method it became clear that readings under 32~34 db are to be considered extremely quiet. Up around the 35 db level you can define a hum, but its nothing more than a little background noise, it's still in the realm of quiet computing in my books. Once you go beyond 35db and especially when you get to 40db, things are clearly audible, but it doesn't get too bad until you start to reach 45db or more.

    Noise levels are gathered using a sound level meter at 6-inches to the right of the cooler, away from the PSU. They test fan noise at 12V, 7V and 5V. This is done to give a wide array of results to cater for both those who might be looking for a silent option , or those who care not about noise and just want the best possible temps .

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    Re: Artic Cooling Freezer Extreme Vs Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

    Guys Can u suggest any online store or retail shop from where I can buy "Arctic cooling freezer 7 pro" or "ZEROtherm Nirvana NV 120" ...I am from kolkata, (west-bengal, India). Please guys I need your help badly
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    Re: Artic Cooling Freezer Extreme Vs Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

    You can buy both Arctic cooling freezer 7 pro or ZEROtherm Nirvana NV 120 from Newegg.com.

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    Re: Artic Cooling Freezer Extreme Vs Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

    but I'm from India.

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    You can buy it from http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/pro...ade/ZT-NIRVANA or ebay or amazon.com.

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    Re: Artic Cooling Freezer Extreme Vs Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

    I dont think Arctic cooling freezer 7 pro is available in India yet....However it is available in many neighbouring countries like China, Japan, Hingkong, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore etc. One of my friends from Chandigarh had purchased Arctic cooling freezer 7 pro, I'll ask him and let you know how hw managed to get....

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    Re: Artic Cooling Freezer Extreme Vs Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

    You can buy Arctic cooling freezer 7 pro http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835186134

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