Arctic Liquid Freezer 240 CPU Watercooler Review

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FrostyTech checked out the Arctic Liquid Freezer 240 CPU Watercooler

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The Arctic Liquid Freezer 240 is an all-in-one CPU water cooling solution built around a large 240mm-sized aluminum heat exchanger that's well suited to full tower PC cases. The unit ships four 120mm fans which pretty much assures it's going to A) perform well, and B) be kind of loud at full tilt. Like many other CPU liquid cooling systems in the wild, the Liquid Freezer 240 is built by Asetek, which actually imbues a healthy measure of confidence in its long term reliability in our books.

The Liquid Freezer 240 ships with four 120mm fans mounted in a push-pull configuration on either side of the 49mm thick aluminum heat exchanger. The pump head/waterblock is built on a successful foundation that many generations of micro skived copper base plates have laid down, and again, makes use of proven Asetek metal mounting bracket design. The aluminum heat exchanger is connected to the waterblock by a 30cm length of flexible 10.5mm OD rubber tubing. The hoses don't swivel at the waterblock to make routing tubes easier, but I think this is a better design choice as it reduces the chance of coolant leaks.

Arctic's Liquid Freezer 240 ships fully assembled, plumbed and filled. The whole system weighs around 1190grams and installs onto Intel socket LGA115x/2011(-3) processors and AMD socket AM2/AM3/FM1/FM2 CPUs. The four 120mm PWM fans operate at 1350-500RPM and feature 54mm long Y-splitter power leads, which is kind of nice.
 Arctic Liquid Freezer 240 CPU Watercooler Review