Arctic Cooling Freezer Extreme Rev2 CPU Heatpipe Heatsink Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,319 words · ~6 min read
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okay so today's unboxing is actually going to be captured with the Microsoft
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lifecam uh HD 5000 and uh I'm going to
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be unboxing the Arctic cooling freezer extreme revision 2 and uh so yeah this
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is meant to be two things an unboxing of this particular heat sink as well as an
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example of what kind of video quality you can expect from the Microsoft
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lifecam that I unboxed a little while ago so you can see it is pretty clear
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and we're going to see how well it does with the close-ups because the lighting
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a isn't great in my office and B I have
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these screens behind me which makes it really difficult for even a good camera
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to focus and uh and get good focusing
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image quality okay so let's unbox this heat sink this is the freezer extreme
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rev 2 it's like the freezer extreme except or Vision 2 it has excellent
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compatibility so it supports pretty much everything out there 1366 1156 775 so
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that's all the Intel sockets at the moment and then support for am3 am2 plus
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and am2 which are all the same as well as 939 it still includes support for
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socket 939 which is pretty ancient at this point all right so we got unmatched
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cooling performance as a feature unique twin tower it's not so unique anymore
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lots of coolers are using the Twin Towers effective heat dissipation via
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eight heat pipes that's pretty good patented fan holders eliminate buzzing
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sounds voltage regulators and Northbridge cooling uh oh yeah we can talk about
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that in a minute okay pre-applied MX2 so it comes with a very high quality
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pre-applied thermal compound that's huge because you can get the best cooler in
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the world if it comes with crappy thermal compound you're going to get crappy performance all right next we
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have they only compare it against the stock cooler so cooling performance as
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well as um noise okay they give you some
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Dimensions here so the fan runs it anywhere from 800 to 1500 RPM and it is
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a pwm fan and I think that's pretty much
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all I want to say about the outside of the package so why don't we get this
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thing opened up and have a look see so
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the first thing we find inside is a piece of paper and that piece of paper
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has some writing on it in a couple different
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languages okay so let's go to English because that's what I speak okay step
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one remove the fan press the fan shoulders to unlock the fan and lift the
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fan upwards step to so we've got six steps on this side and then seven steps
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for Intel and then five steps for AMD so AMD looks to be a little bit simpler
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okay let's take that out and then let's get down to more accessories here okay
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so we've got a little baggie of this is Intel and it has two screws in it okay
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and then the next thing we have is what appears to be AMD mounting clips as well
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as some little like um I don't know I don't know what those
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are shaped like but there they are okay
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next we have the cooler itself wow that was pretty straightforward as far as um
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mounting hardware is concerned so somehow they found a way to mount this
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using either two screws or like two little clippy things ah here it is so
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this is the back plate I guess how does this
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work well you're smart people I'm sure you can figure it out when you buy it
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and see the instruction manual okay so the actual cooler itself it has a
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plastic shroudy thing on the top and to remove the fan you just squeeze that
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together and pull the fan out why don't we just remove the fan okay so there's
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the fan it's a 12 mm round fan and what's a little bit special about this
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fan that I'm going to point out right off the bat here is the fact that it is
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Round And the fact that at the bottom the frame is actually cut out so you see
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how the frame is thick here but then thin down at the bottom so that's what
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they're talking about when they say you've got pwm cooling because this fan
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will actually it'll blow directed air through the heat sink fins from the
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sides here but then it has no it has no no air Direction
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flow control here so what it does is
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when it spins it'll just kind of randomly blow air out the bottom which
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will keep your voltage Regulators as well as your memory modules anything
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around your CPU socket a lot cooler so that's pretty neat all right so why
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don't we have a look at the cooler itself so like they said they use a twin
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tower design so that means that you're taking advantage not only of the air
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coming out of the fan but also the air
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coming into the fan and while it's not quite as effective as say taking these
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two putting them side by side and throwing two separate fans on it the air
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once it's been through one set of fins is not that hot compared to the actual
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CPU so it's still going to do a fair amount of cooling on the other side now
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on the sides of this heat sink we've got a couple more like plastic shroudy
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things and those uh don't appear to come off okay then if you look down into the
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bottom you can see the mounting system a little bit better I still am not 100%
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clear about how that works but we're seeing the autofocus abilities of this
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life cam pretty well here and it's doing a terrific job actually all right fin
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fin density so here why don't we oh
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let's look through the fins at the
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screen I don't know what that proved but now we've done it okay four heat pipes
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at the bottom these appear to be 6 mm heat pipes they're not particularly
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thick but my experience it comes down to design more than you know marketing
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bullet points so this is an excellent cooler and it does a great job you've
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got the pre-applied MX2 here on the bottom and I think that pretty much
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takes care of everything I wanted to say about the uh the Arctic cooling EXT
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freezer extreme rev 2 thank you for checking out my unboxing and oh yeah we
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should talk about that uh that camera a little bit too let's have a look at the software so this is the Microsoft
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lifecam software you can adjust uh true color settings which are over here uh so
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you can turn that on and off oh that's so that's what happens if I turn off
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true color it becomes a lot harder for it to control the
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well the color and it does a great job actually based on the video we just took
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you can select a bunch of different modes for capturing video where're using
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uh 1280 x 720 HD video capture you can
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adjust your micro microphone volume which I hope is high enough after we've
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done this big long video and uh yeah that's it thank you for checking out my
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unboxing and uh lots more video updates to
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come oh yeah I turn it off fail