Arctic Cooling
has been making quite a splash in the cooling market lately using high quality
materials and Swiss engineering to produce some exceptional products.
Today I'll be reviewing one of their
newest products, the
Freezer 64 Pro AMD
Socket 939
Cpu Heatsink designed for direct replacement of AMD's socket 939 stock cooler.
I say direct replacement because the Freezer 64 pro comes with NO additional
mounting hardware. It's designed to utilize the stock AMD socket 939 motherboard
heatsink mounting bracket.
Application:
All AMD Athlon 64
AMD Athlon X2 up to 5000+
All AMD Athlon 64 FX
Company Information:
ARCTIC COOLING is a private owned company founded in 2001 with
headquarters in Switzerland, offices in Hong Kong and with production facilities
in Asia. The team of ARCTIC COOLING insists on international young highly
educated people with business, technical and communicational skills. The
attitude to work is based on the Swiss innovative spirit and adheres to the
high Swiss standard recognized internationally. This striving for excellence is
integrated in all processes and is a matter of course. ARCTIC COOLING's core
competencies are multifarious such as systematic noise reduction, copper and
aluminum heatsinks, customizing of thermal solutions, “Just-in-time” fan
manufacturing, Ceramic Bearing, Multiple Signal Output / BIOS interface and low
noise Fan Blade Design.
ARCTIC COOLING is a leader in creating thermal cooling solution
for personal computer systems that enable CPU (Central Processing Unit), GPU
(Graphic Processing Unit) and PC-case cooling while reducing the noise level.
Increased heat generated by modern computer systems has overwhelmed most
existing CPU cooler manufacturers in their efforts to keep pace with the
demands in terms of cooling. At the same time noise pollution caused by today's
IT-systems has increased, severely affecting productivity in open office
environments.
ARCTIC COOLING has been working with globally recognized companies in the
graphics industry. Through these partnerships ARCTIC COOLING is privileged in
gaining latest know-how about graphics for developing new cooling solutions.
ARCTIC COOLING combines the Swiss art of engineering to realize innovative
cooling ideas. Due to the low labor cost in Asia, ARCTIC COOLING's highly
customized products with high performance remain affordable. Cooling system
solutions are created from the demand of end-users. According to constant
product development the demands of end-users will always be satisfied. As a
result of the head-start ARCTIC COOLING has in knowing end-user's requirements,
manufacturing possibilities and ARCTIC COOLING's strong R&D, ARCTIC's products
will continue to be the trendsetter in cooling systems and provides assemblers,
Computer Hardware distributors and IT-technicians with innovative, virtually
silent, cost-effective Cooling solutions for CPU, GPU and PC-case worldwide.
Packaging:
The packaging for the Freezer 64 Pro was
well done but rather simple as compared to what I've been getting
lately. Inside the black box packaging is just the fully assembled
cooler and some molded plastic for it to sit in. No bags of screws, no
case badges, no mass of different mounting brackets...nothing. Just the
cooler and a single instruction sheet.
That's not to say the Freezer 64 Pro is
lacking, it's just designed for a singular purpose: to replace your
stock AMD socket 939 cooler and re-utilize it's factory mounting
bracket.
Most of you AMD socket 939 users out there
should have this bracket either currently on your board, or if you took
it off previously to mount an aftermarket cooler, hopefully you saved
the stock bracket (as I did). More on mounting later..