Wednesday, February 14th 2024
Arctic Liquid Freezer III AIO CPU Cooler Pictured
Arctic is giving finishing touches to its new Liquid Freezer III all-in-one liquid CPU cooler. Designed almost entirely in-house by Arctic, the cooler features a few unique design improvements over its predecessor, the Liquid Freezer II series. To begin with, the pump-block features a unique design resembling an aircraft turbofan engine intake. In the previous generations of Liquid Freezer, the VRM area ventilation fan appeared suspended on top of the pump-block, like it's a secondary fixture. Here, the fan is located inside top vent of the pump-block, and guides all its airflow laterally, providing some airflow to your CPU VRM and memory areas. The pump is located adjacent to this fan.
There are three color trims with four size variants, each. The color trims include White + ARGB, Black + ARGB, and Black sans lighting. In the White + ARGB and Black + ARGB variants, the lighting includes an addressable RGB LED element on the pump-block, with the fan vent serving as an LED diffuser; and each of the included fan having lighting of its own. Size variants for each of the three trims include 240 (240 mm x 120 mm); 280 (280 mm x 140 mm); 360 (360 mm x 120 mm); and 420 (420 mm x 140 mm). Arctic has made improvements to the radiator design, to extend its finnage (heat dissipation surfare area) to the edges of the frame. We'll learn more detailed specs such as the cooling performance and fan specs, as we head closer to product launch.
The leaked teaser trailer for the Arctic Liquid Freezer III follows.
There are three color trims with four size variants, each. The color trims include White + ARGB, Black + ARGB, and Black sans lighting. In the White + ARGB and Black + ARGB variants, the lighting includes an addressable RGB LED element on the pump-block, with the fan vent serving as an LED diffuser; and each of the included fan having lighting of its own. Size variants for each of the three trims include 240 (240 mm x 120 mm); 280 (280 mm x 140 mm); 360 (360 mm x 120 mm); and 420 (420 mm x 140 mm). Arctic has made improvements to the radiator design, to extend its finnage (heat dissipation surfare area) to the edges of the frame. We'll learn more detailed specs such as the cooling performance and fan specs, as we head closer to product launch.
24 Comments on Arctic Liquid Freezer III AIO CPU Cooler Pictured
Something I would be very interested in is a 480mm AiO. :rockout::rockout::rockout::rockout:
It didn't come with an offset mount, but I also tried it with the Thermal Grizzly offset mount, which didn't help at all.
Ignoring the CPU lottery factor, things such as the ACTUAL CPU voltages(s) used (rather than what the BIOS says, hence the scandal), the fan speeds used when under such tests, the particular motherboard model, ambient temperature etc, we (you guys who have those CPU's and broadly similar AIO's) can figure this out by comparing as many variables as possible to see if there is something such as a large difference in CPU voltage(s) as reported by (the same version of) HWIFO, wildly different AIO fan speeds, ambient temp etc. Obviously there will still be a difference, but you might find something to explain this issue, I remember AusWolf having temp related issues with this CPU before and trying at least 2 coolers. I cant help directly as I have a 5800X3D.
As we have seen with the surface testing we have seen from GamersNexus (and others), the surfaces shape and quality as well as the mounting system can make a massive difference, I remember back in the day manually sanding a CPU and heatsink (it made a difference of something like 10C lower temperatures WITH a higher overclock).
As a side question that I expect I asked you in the past, what does HWINFO say that your voltage is running at when under full load at it's default TDP setting.? It would be interesting to see others results with the same CPU model for comparison.
Now we (I) have strayed well off topic and perhaps you need to create a new thread about your issues, or bring back to life an old thread of yours calling for readers who have the same CPU as you to give their input, their experiences and note what cooler they are using so we can get to the bottom of your problem (which I remember discussing with you some months ago).
In brief, The Freezer III 360 is damned good at cooling vs my Freezer II, but with caveats (isn't there always), I hope you enjoy my review.
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/freezer-iii-mini-review.319613/