Arctic Announces the Freezer i32 Plus CPU Cooler

btarunr · Jan 30, 2017

Arctic unveils the Freezer i32 Plus CPU cooler. The enhanced ARCTIC Freezer i32 Plus comes up with an additional Fan to cool down much-engaged CPU's. Both fans are mounted on opposite sides of the radiator and thus provide a great airflow. The first fan pushes air through the heatsink, the second fan pulls the air out of the heatsink.

If you really need a silent cooler, one that only turns on when you really need it, then maybe the ARCTIC Freezer i32 is the cooler for you. Arctic started with an ideal use case and created a product that matches it perfectly. Available now, the Freezer i32 Plus is priced at 49.99€.

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eidairaman1 · Jan 30, 2017

Why not just have a mounting kit for all current intel and amd sockets and provide kits for newer ones lol

ShurikN · Jan 30, 2017

Gotta love that AMD support.

hojnikb · Jan 30, 2017

How about selling those fans separately ?

I mean, thins 40% semi passive mode is exactly what i need.

bug · Jan 30, 2017

Do these fans really help?
I mean, more airflow is supposed to be better, but you can get great airflow if you blow air at 100mph over those fins. Yet at those speeds, there's simply no time for heat exchange.
I mean, have these designs been benchmarked, do two fan always perform better than one? (Sorry if there's an obvious answer out there, I'm out of the loop)

Bjørgersson · Jan 30, 2017

I don't really think that one extra fan will make any difference. Larger fins with a pair of extra heatpipes would rather.

iO · Jan 30, 2017

A second fan will help but only like 3-4°C at most while being noticebly louder. Especially Arctic's pointy-tip fan blades in pull config..

hojnikb said:
How about selling those fans separately ?

I mean, thins 40% semi passive mode is exactly what i need.

They sell 140mm fans like that.
https://www.arctic.ac/de_en/f14-pwm.html

VSG · Jan 30, 2017

bug said:
Do these fans really help?
I mean, more airflow is supposed to be better, but you can get great airflow if you blow air at 100mph over those fins. Yet at those speeds, there's simply no time for heat exchange.
I mean, have these designs been benchmarked, do two fan always perform better than one? (Sorry if there's an obvious answer out there, I'm out of the loop)

The actual time for heat transfer is across multiple steps: CPU die to IHS via thermal paste/solder, IHS to cooler cold plate, cooler cold plate to heatpipes, heatpipes to fins, and fins to air. The final step is where the fans come in, and generally the higher the airflow velocity the better in reducing the boundary layer of stagnant air in contact with the fins. The reason that CPU temps don't scale as well with fan speed or number of fans is due to there being multiple other steps listed above that remain unaffected.

Bjørgersson · Jan 30, 2017

iO said:
A second fan will help but only like 3-4°C at most while being noticebly louder. Especially Arctic's pointy-tip fan blades in pull config..

They sell 140mm fans like that.
https://www.arctic.ac/de_en/f14-pwm.html

As far as I know, these fans have different controllers than the ones on the A32/i32, so they won't stop below 40%.

hojnikb · Jan 30, 2017

seggbizo said:
As far as I know, these fans have different controllers than the ones on the A32/i32, so they won't stop below 40%.

Exactly, f12/pwm doesn't stop at 40%. They don't stop at all, unless you set the voltage at 0% actually.

bug · Jan 30, 2017

VSG said:
The actual time for heat transfer is across multiple steps: CPU die to IHS via thermal paste/solder, IHS to cooler cold plate, cooler cold plate to heatpipes, heatpipes to fins, and fins to air. The final step is where the fans come in, and generally the higher the airflow velocity the better in reducing the boundary layer of stagnant air in contact with the fins. The reason that CPU temps don't scale as well with fan speed or number of fans is due to there being multiple other steps listed above that remain unaffected.

All of that is correct, but my question still stands: does a second cooler make a difference?
I'll have to dig up some reviews when I get home later today, somebody has probably tested with one and two fans attached.

hojnikb · Jan 30, 2017

I can do testing with my noctua u12p.... Currently have 2 f12 pwms on there, just because i had them lying around.

iO · Jan 30, 2017

hojnikb said:
Exactly, f12/pwm doesn't stop at 40%. They don't stop at all, unless you set the voltage at 0% actually.

The F12 wont but the F14 PWM do. Even their old revision would stop below 13% or so.

bug · Jan 30, 2017

bug said:
All of that is correct, but my question still stands: does a second cooler make a difference?
I'll have to dig up some reviews when I get home later today, somebody has probably tested with one and two fans attached.

Judging by this: http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2521&page=4
a second fan does little more than add noise... Though several of their top coolers are dual fan.

VSG · Jan 30, 2017

bug said:
All of that is correct, but my question still stands: does a second cooler make a difference?
I'll have to dig up some reviews when I get home later today, somebody has probably tested with one and two fans attached.

The primary advantage given the limited heat transfer area is to run both fans at lower speeds to have the same amount of airflow through the cooler as a single fan, but at lower noise. Not much to gain from running two high speed fans here.

eidairaman1 · Jan 31, 2017

Be better to have a fan blowing down on the chip aswell and the vrms too

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