okay so today we'll be unboxing the Arctic cooling freezer 7 Pro rev 2 so
what does REV 2 mean well for one thing it's got a black and white fan and for
another thing it is compatible with Intel LGA 1156 so that means we've got
support for all the latest Core i5 and core i7 processors on LGA 1156 now I
like the way they've done this packaging it's like a little uh Darth Vader mask
style thing you uncp it from the back and then you can pull out the actual
heat sink itself if you can get it out oh there we go okay so let's have a look
at the heat sink itself first so there's a bunch of accessories falling out of it
so this is a three heat pipe design and they're all bent in a u you can see that
the 80 mm fan blows air through the fins I'm actually going to turn it around for
the cameraman to have a look at the back so the heat pipes carry the heat away
from the CPU itself and up through the fins now then on the bottom you can see
we've actually got a very very small contact area now what this means is I
guess a a uh a cost reduction for Arctic
cooling but B it means you're focusing all of your cooling right where the
actual heat is being produced on the CPU die now the way the mounting system
works you can see we've got a couple different mounting systems here the AMD
one uses two screws and two little Clips
to go onto the the stock mounting retention bracket that's that's attached
permanently here and then clip down onto the bracket that's on all am2 and am
three motherboards now for Intel you can see we've actually got I'm just going to
put this down for a minute we've got a bracket here that's compatible with LGA
775 1156 and
1366 so then we've got a bunch of these little um plastic Clips to attach the
bracket to your motherboard and then you use the two screws to attach and I'm
just going to pick up the fan again here to attach the fan to the bracket just
like that so that's a pretty cool mounting system it's very Innovative and
thank you for checking out my blog on the Arctic cooling freezer 7 Pro rev 2