Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 CPU Heatsink Cooler Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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434 words · ~2 min read
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okay so today we'll be unboxing the Arctic cooling freezer 7 Pro rev 2 so
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what does REV 2 mean well for one thing it's got a black and white fan and for
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another thing it is compatible with Intel LGA 1156 so that means we've got
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support for all the latest Core i5 and core i7 processors on LGA 1156 now I
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like the way they've done this packaging it's like a little uh Darth Vader mask
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style thing you uncp it from the back and then you can pull out the actual
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heat sink itself if you can get it out oh there we go okay so let's have a look
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at the heat sink itself first so there's a bunch of accessories falling out of it
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so this is a three heat pipe design and they're all bent in a u you can see that
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the 80 mm fan blows air through the fins I'm actually going to turn it around for
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the cameraman to have a look at the back so the heat pipes carry the heat away
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from the CPU itself and up through the fins now then on the bottom you can see
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we've actually got a very very small contact area now what this means is I
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guess a a uh a cost reduction for Arctic
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cooling but B it means you're focusing all of your cooling right where the
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actual heat is being produced on the CPU die now the way the mounting system
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works you can see we've got a couple different mounting systems here the AMD
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one uses two screws and two little Clips
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to go onto the the stock mounting retention bracket that's that's attached
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permanently here and then clip down onto the bracket that's on all am2 and am
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three motherboards now for Intel you can see we've actually got I'm just going to
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put this down for a minute we've got a bracket here that's compatible with LGA
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775 1156 and
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1366 so then we've got a bunch of these little um plastic Clips to attach the
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bracket to your motherboard and then you use the two screws to attach and I'm
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just going to pick up the fan again here to attach the fan to the bracket just
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like that so that's a pretty cool mounting system it's very Innovative and
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thank you for checking out my blog on the Arctic cooling freezer 7 Pro rev 2