HWzone takes a look at the Arctic Cooling Freezer 4 & Freezer 64 Cooling Solutions.
The traditional air cooling has, apparently, reached the end of itsroad, since there is a limit as to how much one can cool today's "WattMachine" using a block of metal and a fan. As a result of thislimitation (and a natural desire of exploration), various alternativecooling solutions have spread in the past years, such as water coolingsystems, Peltier based cooling and even gas cooling. However, theseradical cooling solutions suffer from two major drawbacks that preventthem from being adopted by the mainstream market: Price and safety. Notonly does buying such a cooling solution require "deep pockets", but itmay also compromise the health of the entire computer.The cooling products we'll look at in this review are two out of aseries of almost identical products, which are constructed fordifferent sockets: The Freezer 4 is built for Socket 478, the Freezer 7is built for Socket 775 and the Freezer 64 is built for all Athlon 64and Athlon FX sockets.Read more
