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- Date:
- Monday , January 08, 2007
- Author:
- Justin Diduch
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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CoolIT Freezone Chilled Liquid CPU Cooler
Is CoolIT’s hybrid, TEC chilled, water cooler up to the task of cooling your CPU? We find out how water cooling with no radiator works. Turns out to be user-friendly as well.
Introduction
When I first heard that CoolIT Systems wanted to send a CPU cooler into the [H] labs for review, my first thought was “the USB beverage chiller guys?” After doing a little research it turns out that they make quite a bit more than just USB beverage chillers.
In 2006 CoolIT Systems has made some major inroads into the PC cooling market. Back in March, they announced that they would be providing the chilled liquid cooling systems for Alienware’s ALX Quad SLI machines, and then in August followed with the cooling system for Velocity Micro’s Core 2 Extreme X6800 machines running clock speeds of up to 3.68GHz.
A pedigree like that really backs up this statement taken from the CoolIT website:
“CoolIT Systems has been working with industry leaders in the computer industry to research, design, and deliver next generation cooling products that provide a comprehensive solution while exceeding high OEM standards for reliability and maintenance-free operation. This carefully designed and patented MTEC™ technology unleashes the full potential of a PC, providing superior cooling performance while reducing system level noise and improving reliability of vital components.”
The product we are reviewing today is the DIY version of this “MTEC” technology called the Freezone CPU Cooler.
Test Setup
Our test bed had again remained unchanged. As always we performed all tests at 24C ambient temperature, using Arctic Silver 5 applied using the “grain of rice” method. The cooler was remounted 3 times using fresh TIM each time to ensure there were no aberrations in the mount. Two instances of Prime95 running the “in place Large FFT’s” torture test were used to achieve 100% load on each core of our CPU. Temperatures were recorded using SpeedFan version 4.29. The hardware used for testing is shown on the chart below.
