Arctic Liquid Freezer III AIO CPU Cooler Pictured

[btarunr]

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.

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[Chaitanya]

Hopefully mounting hardware has been improved along with not dropping offset mount for AMD systems.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Hopefully mounting hardware has been improved along with not dropping offset mount for AMD systems.

Thats the only thing I dislike about my LF2, the mount does leave room to wiggle when removing or try to reposition.

 

[Guwapo77]

I have one in my son's system and its a beast, if this one is even better, it might find a home in my next build.

 

[AusWolf]

Looks great. Can't wait for reviews!

 

[ADB1979]

I am not into the garishness of LED's literally everywhere and and am quite happy with my Freezer 2 280, but I have to say that this looks pretty nice in Black, certainly better than the V2 that I have. Considering the price of the V2 and its performance, I really hope that Arctic (Cooling) continue to keep their excellent pricing and perhaps I will pick up a V3 (in black) or a V4 as my next cooler, it's already on my shortlist of 1, I sure hope there is competition..

 

[stimpy88]

I have had great success with the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 on my 5950. And it was pure class the way they handled the heat plate replacement.

 

[Broken Processor]

Finally an AIO release I'm interested in.

 

[Arco]

Arctic has my support, I probably won't get one as my LF II 420 is only a year old. If I was in the market this would 100% be my choice. I like the look of the pump-block, definitely different than the LF II one.

 

[Veseleil]

Let's be honest, the LF II pump block was ugly AF. This finally changes things for people that value performance/price and aesthetics as well.

 

[Arco]

Let's be honest, the LF II pump block was ugly AF. This finally changes things for people that value performance/price and aesthetics as well.

I like it personally. Although I do see the appeal!

 

[Steve67]

I literally just installed a 420 Liquid Freezer II in my system. Wonder if this will bring a big leap in performance.

 

[Guwapo77]

I literally just installed a 420 Liquid Freezer II in my system. Wonder if this will bring a big leap in performance.

I can't imagine anything extraordinary...if this gets 1 or 2 degrees cooler, I would be impressed.

Something I would be very interested in is a 480mm AiO.

 

[Steve67]

I can't imagine anything extraordinary...if this gets 1 or 2 degrees cooler, I would be impressed.

Something I would be very interested in is a 480mm AiO.

I'd definitely snag that

 

[stefanels]

I have the Freezer II 420 ARGB on my 7800X3D , very pleased with the cooling performance and the low noise. This should be a step up IMO

 

[AusWolf]

I have the Freezer II 420 ARGB on my 7800X3D , very pleased with the cooling performance and the low noise. This should be a step up IMO

How does it perform under full load, if you don't mind me asking? I have a be quiet! Silent Loop 2 280 mm, which is a brilliant AIO, but doesn't work well with the 7800X3D for some reason.

 

[stefanels]

How does it perform under full load, if you don't mind me asking? I have a be quiet! Silent Loop 2 280 mm, which is a brilliant AIO, but doesn't work well with the 7800X3D for some reason.

I can make a screenshot of HWinfo64 after a Cinebench 2024 run if you like?!

 

[AusWolf]

I can make a screenshot of HWinfo64 after a Cinebench 2024 run if you like?!

I'd very much like that! Thanks.

 

[stefanels]

I'd very much like that! Thanks.

Here is the temps after 5 minutes of CB 2024

How does it perform under full load, if you don't mind me asking? I have a be quiet! Silent Loop 2 280 mm, which is a brilliant AIO, but doesn't work well with the 7800X3D for some reason.

But that AIO have offset mounting for Ryzen 7000 series?

 

[AusWolf]

Here is the temps after 5 minutes of CB 2024


But that AIO have offset mounting for Ryzen 7000 series?

Wow, that's a lot lower than I had with my AIO! Do you have any tweaks on it, like CO?

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.

 

[ADB1979]

Wow, that's a lot lower than I had with my AIO! Do you have any tweaks on it, like CO?

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.

I know there was a scandal a while ago with Asus motherboards and their massive CPU over-voltage. After the scandal blew up and several prominent YT channels covered this and a couple even said they would no longer use Asus motherboards for in house testing because of this (and other things), Asus promptly fixed the problem.

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.

 

[AusWolf]

I know there was a scandal a while ago with Asus motherboards and their massive CPU over-voltage. After the scandal blew up and several prominent YT channels covered this and a couple even said they would no longer use Asus motherboards for in house testing because of this (and other things), Asus promptly fixed the problem.

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.

It has nothing to do with voltage in my case. The same CPU in the same motherboard under the same settings throttled at 50 W under the AIO, but runs just fine under a Dark Rock 4.

 

[ADB1979]

It has nothing to do with voltage in my case. The same CPU in the same motherboard under the same settings throttled at 50 W under the AIO, but runs just fine under a Dark Rock 4.

That is incredible, and I don't mean that as though I don't believe you, you know what you are doing, you have a lot of experience, but the results are incredible, there must be some kind of fault somewhere, something physical. As the Dark Rock 4 doesn't have the same issues as other coolers you have tried it must come down to the CPU surface, the cooler surface, the mounting or any combination of the three.

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).

 

[AusWolf]

That is incredible, and I don't mean that as though I don't believe you, you know what you are doing, you have a lot of experience, but the results are incredible, there must be some kind of fault somewhere, something physical. As the Dark Rock 4 doesn't have the same issues as other coolers you have tried it must come down to the CPU surface, the cooler surface, the mounting or any combination of the three.

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).

It is most definitely a cold plate surface / contact issue. I can only guess what the root of the issue is. The AIO cold plate not being thick enough to absorb the concentrated heat? The micro fins being in the wrong place for the offset CCD? The surface not being even enough? No idea. The operating voltage is fine, it barely ever touches 1.1 V on the cores.

 

[ADB1979]

It is most definitely a cold plate surface / contact issue. I can only guess what the root of the issue is. The AIO cold plate not being thick enough to absorb the concentrated heat? The micro fins being in the wrong place for the offset CCD? The surface not being even enough? No idea. The operating voltage is fine, it barely ever touches 1.1 V on the cores.

I am dropped a mini review of the Arctic Freezer III in the link below, i decided to not hijack TPU's review thread, they don't like that for some reason

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.

Freezer III mini-review - Noise/Silence oriented review

I have a Freezer III, and I will give prospective buyers a little advice about what to expect. [EDIT: I should preface this with a note about noise as this is a large subject of my mini-review. My house is very quiet, the area I live in is very quiet and the only noise in the room where I am...

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