Can't find one single negative in the comments about Arctic. Means they are doing a great job! Also I checked the box and realised there was a qr code for the instruction manual lol (it was mounted upside down and there is no paper manual).
Arctic is closest to custom loop you will find on the market .. my only issues (there not crazy bad ) is the pump header is more function not flash ( some love the flashy GIF shit or pretty colours ) and the hose orientation into the pump header will be a issue for alot of sff builds..
There coolers are the best . Back when evenyone was buying the other 420 I watched some reviews and these were beating everything in its class. Im using arctic 420 II with my 11900 and its best cooler for thermals on super hot cpu. My cpu temps from my air cooler dropped to 40c from 80c using hyper 212 could not do it . so i gott the blacck one and it is got insane abilties . Ive never talked about this on channel . But lowe your channel . Hope all is well in aussieland.
dont forget the AM4 mounting option which makes for better cooling on said platform .. ( offsets it over the parts that require the better cooling ) i understand hes using Intel but Arctic freezer ii AIO's are the best of the best and at the cheaper price they really do cater to both platforms !!
Arctic's whole lineup is awesome. Their low profile coolers are great for the price, the Freezer 34 is great and their P12 fans are SO GOOD and pretty cheap for what you get.
Could not agree more. Only thing I don't like about the P12 fans is certain PWM levels have some motor noise. But it is easy enough to tune fan curves around the resonance points. Can't wait to try the new P12 MAX fans.
the new p12 fans are the best case fans currently for airflow under 40 dB most people don't run their fans loud anyways, you can get 5 for the price of a single t30 which it outperforms, amazing
@@MDFGamingVideo They have a new more efficient and quieter motor in the fans these days. I bought their P12 fans a couple years ago but never ran into any resonating noise though I've watched video reviews on Amazon of that issue and they were audible so it has happened to some people. In my experience, having had both a Noctua premium A12x25 fan and Noctua Redux fans, the Artic P12's were no louder and cooled about as well though Noctua's fans had a higher quality build but for up to triple the price (Redux fans were ~$15 and the premium fan was $30, Arctic P12's have been as cheap as $5 or $6 on sale but typically are $7-$9 depending on features like PWM, PST, CO ect.). I haven't heard anything about the P12 Max fans until I ran into this comment section. I'll check them out.
I had the old Arctic 240 cooler. Bought it for 60 bucks back then new. Even then it crushed most of the way more expensive competition. It cooled my 4,8 ghz AMD FX6300 to like 65 Degrees at max under full load in a really really tiny case. Absolutely loved it. Its a damn good company especially for the price.
Arctic has exceptionally good price-quality combo in Europe, where it is mostly a lot cheaper than all the other coolers. They even offer refurbished coolers for even less money. In addition they have an amazing customer-support and you can trust them, because if there is an issue, they will let us know about it(referring to aio's from 2021 w copper plate issue) and offer us a solution.
@@iikatinggangsengii2471 No. Arctic is Swiss/German but der8auer has nothing to do with them. He's also not a part of Lian Li, he only designed the O11 lineup. Thermal Grizzly is its own entity.
that was gasket issue ant not the plate, I had mine for 1 year before I saw GN video and upon opening mine - it wasn't bad at all, all I saw was few colored bubles and bit darkened copper plate
@@iikatinggangsengii2471 ARCTIC is Swiss at the root, now headquartered in Germany but with R&D based in Hong Kong and lead by a French (me 😁). The CEO is still the Swiss founder. Truly an international company.
Artic has been a good AIO for a while now. I've used it in a few builds and the thickness of the rads and the price is hard to beat. Supposedly the small fan on the pump also helps circulate air around the power stages which is supposed to help overall performance and longevity as well. One other AIO I like too is the Lian LI Gallahad. Like the Artic it has a slightly thicker rad when compared to other AIO offerings which I think helps the performance of the AIO. The Lian Li is not as thick as the Artic, but they have options to purchase the AIO with their unifans for those who want to spend a little more for the fans for consistency in our builds since you can deck out your entire build with the unifans more easily than the artic build. Keep up the great work.
I’ve been working with Arctic too and I’ve gotta say they’re really on top of their game. Best value for money hands down, plus their things run without sounding like a jet engine!
I have a 5900x and living in a very hot country I was having some temp issues with a 240 AIO Galahad Lian Li. I changed to Arctic freezer II 360 and the improvement was impressive, very impressive. Arctic forever.
The point is, all of Arctic's Liquid freezer II range is really good due to that extra thick radiator and the fans. I have a 280 mm arctic liquid freezer with my 5800x3d and is basically quiet. Soon I will be adding the new P12 Max to the exhaust and P14 Max fans to the cooler.
@@pietrmuffei8874 Not really if you can utilize all of this stuff well. Also, I doubt you'd prefer a jet engine as a PC and would pay a bit more for some level of silence.
not sure if there is diminishing returns on the fans really .. Cant say much with arctic but ive slapped a set of noctua 3000rpm industrial fans on NZXT x63 280mm aio and while watching the CAM software underload i see little to no real lower temps but i get a jet engine noise .. Thats why i swear by the stock arctic freezer ii AIO and fans both quiet and effective !!
i have the 240 model on an i711700k and it was actually in a recall due to a gasket issue. arctic sent me a new copper plate, gasket, addition fluid and paste. thats standing by your consumers and i have no complaints with the cooler or company and am very satisfied..
I have this front mounted in my evolv x case, fits perfectly and I even done push pull configuration, used 3 case fans included with evlov case to push and rotated included argb arctic fans to pull. I have to seriously recommend it especially because of how awesome the arctic customer support was and they sent me additional screws free of charge for my push pull configuration.. Unlike some other crappy brands like Thermaltake that refuses to even answer my emails
I’m using this on my current build. Arctic is regularly a top performer even with their 360mm version. I choose it because it was a top performer at 360mm and the 420mm just ups the ante on cooling. They also build their own rather than simply branding something made by someone else. I did replace the fans with what I considered better fans and run the fans separately off the motherboard rather than coupling them with the included splitter cable.
Arctic Freezer II 240 on an i5-13600K. Idle at 30C. Gaming Cyberpunk 2077 at 60C. Cinebench at 95C after 10 minutes. Got it off Arctic's Ebay B-Stock store for $60 shipped
I have this exact 420 on my 13700KF in a 7000D Airflow and it's fantastic so far. The good thing about Arctic is that they don't use the generic Asetek design like most other AIO's.
I am impressed that it took you so long to test it out. I own 3 of them 2x280mm and 1x420. No issues for years. Also push pull config make even more magic
Seriously, you actually believe that push/pull fan setup is doing anything beneficial? Gamer’s Nexus, Linus, Derbauer (I think) and several others have ALL confirmed on several different brands and rad sizes that all push/pull fan setups are an absolute complete waste of time, money and noise. Even on a triple fan rad, whether 360mm or 420mm, the very best improvement from adding the additional 3 extra fans and all the extra noise is generally in the vicinity of 1-2degrees lower temps. The most I’ve seen on any review site was a 4.6degree improvement but the noise is at least doubled, or even louder if using 2000+ rpm fans. Don’t forget about the shitloads of additional dust and crap that the extra 3 fans are now pulling into your case and covering every component in an even thicker layer of crud. There just aren’t any real, tangible benefits that actually make push/pull a worthwhile option in ANY rad setup.
ive got the same one but the 360 and its absolutely the best ive ever used and there technical support/customer support are absolutely out of this world.
Just upgrading my system and ordered a 360 Freezer 2 for my new Lian Li O11 Dynamic. Currently use a Freezer 2 240 in an Antec NX410 Case but got some trouble to keep the 13700K Cool under load :D For gaming it´s totaly fine, but Benchmarks, especially Prime and Cinebench send the CPU to hell xD But the 360 is a powerhouse as well, cant wait for it. Great vid as always
I also chose the Artic Freezer II 420 mm and upgraded it with the NOCTUA NF-A14 iPPC-2000 PWM, which generate almost twice the pressure at the same volume. I use it to cool my INTEL 14900K and it's simply awesome. The thick cooler in combination with the powerful NOCTUA industrial fans is simply unbeatable. I have the power limit at 300 watts and am far from the 100 degree Celsius CPU limit.
Part of the reason as why Arctic Liquid Freezer II is that good even till now on the Zen4 or intel Gen13th platform. (highend processor) are due to these factors. 1) They have the offset bracket which aligns properly with the Zen4 processor, as the processor Dies are not centered. with the offset bracket the coldplate fin stack inside the pump aligns dead center on the processor IHS (the dies area). As for intel, it's just dead centered. 2) It has the advanatge of having a 38mm thick radiator which has bigger surface area to absorb more heat off the IHS of the processor, therefore you dont need to run fans at high rpms, be it the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240, 360, 280 and 420, infact best are the 280s and 420s. Thats why at lower rpm, it can get the job done. Of course if you want to ram up the RPM of those P12 or P14 fans, it's even better. 3) If you are not aware of, the reversion of this product which are after Rev 3, Arctic have done a wider fin stack and taller fin stack in the coldpate. Byran, i have sent you an email of my findings which you might be interested as I have done an in-depth series of how this LF2 is being engineered.
Arctic not only got good performance & customer support, but also a lower price than most of its competition! If you want even more performance, they just launched a jet engine version of their P12 fan for $13. Runs at 3000+ RPM max, much like Noctua's iPPC or Phanteks T30 at $30-35.
Have to agree their customer support was awesome to talk with and they provided me with additional screws free of charge for my push pull configuration on liquid freezer ii 420. Unfortunately those new p12 fans are not available yet, so I bought regular ones for push and pull configuration on my suprim liquid x
Hey U inspired me to take risks when buying used parts! I literally just bought 2 "new" faulty cards today. One GTX 970 4GB (Asus) for 30 bucks and a r9 280x for 25 bucks. Both are faulty, the GTX 970 often needs 2-3 boots to start and the r9 280x got really hold and the owner installed a water cooler. Now he sells it as faulty, cause it got so hot with the stock blower. :D I also get the original blower cooler with it. Extremly good buy. I probabaly go to fit a cpu cooler or a AIO to the r9 280x. :)
Have one of these mounted in a 90° case cooling a 13900k With a contact plate, stock settings ambient 70°F, it will keep the 13900k at about 93°c for approximately 5 hours of rendering After 5 hours the 13900k fully heatsoaks my Arctic II 420 and it'll throttle from that point onward at 100°c Quite impressive that it lasts that long, but if your renders/projects go on longer than that, you're going to want to seriously consider a dual rad custom loop to delay full heatsoak for as long as possible
I have been running an Artic Liquid Freezer 2 -280 (non RGB) on a i7-12700K and without any “tweaking” it self boosts to 4.9GHz all core (spec 3.6) without fuss, drama or excess noise.
push that 12700k beyond 4.9ghz, and the power ramps up a fair bit. Performance also scales at least.. I think at around 5.3ghz is where scaling and power draw starts getting more concerning on average. Luckily ADL undervolts well too.
Excellent timing, I've been looking at getting one of these (a shame the ARGB version isn't in stock in the UK for a sane price). This 5900X wants to go faster, but it is hitting 80c (4.6ghz all core) on a Noctua D14 (with 2xP14 fans, they are good!). And as it happens I have the Torrent case (don't mind a little trimming).
i used to work at Scorptec in Melbourne and i asked about this cooler and my managers said that this cooler has a high return rate. Due to the pump dieing. Or the fan on top of the Aio Cpu block.
I LOVE Artic ! I have the 'Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240' *BUT ... What surprises me, is that the AIGO is also tolerable GOOD , while it is 360mm, compared to those 420mm's !* Btw ... I paid (just) 79 euro for my 'Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240' It's such an GREAT deal, for that kind of performance !!! NO other brand can deliver that !
This is a great review. Really interesting. I'm just building a 14900K build for my wife and will have a large case with a lot of harddrives so can fit a 420 cooler. The Corsair sounds really loud so that feels like a no go, but this one is really low. I wonder if one would get even lower noise by replacing the fans to Noctua 140 fans. This cooler actually looks so good that I consider replacing my current air cooler for an older AMD 3990X that uses Noctua air cooling. To be fair it does not really have a temperature problem, but I would maybe increase the frequency a bit.
Nice video and i'd agree that Corsair is overpricing surfing on RGB hype...Imho a comparison with the Alphacool Eisbaier Aurora 420mm (copper radiator) would be worht it (priced 190 euros in UE). pretty silent, performs well (28 °C idle on my Ryzen 7 5800X3d) , open loop concept, making it available for both CPU & GPU cooling in a single AIO
Just got this cooler installed for my 13900K, can confirm it fits the View 71 at the top. But barely though, most people will have issues with fitment. I haven't done much testing but brought my idle temp down to the upper 30s. I was getting upper 40s and mid 50s with my TT 360 AIO.
I use their 360mm without the rgb. I love it because it comes pre-assembled and only uses one pwm plug and thats it. Mounting with the little sticker spacers is a bit of drag though
Will you ever review the DeepCool LT720 AIO? It has the most unique and interesting pump casing I've ever seen, but I would like to know about it's performance.
The DeepCool LT720 was tested in this video from der8auer. (ruclips.net/video/tYARk9OQsaU/видео.html) and there are like a dozen other less known/reputable reviews on RUclips. Search is your friend. 😀 FYI, it looks better, but can't cool like an Arctic Freezer II. But it's not bad, it just costs more and doesn't cool as much. Plus the quality of Arctic is hard to beat, it's got that typical German engineering, yet somehow doesn't have the typical high price tag.
@@Bundy714 oopsie, didn't know der8auer had tested it. Howewer, I asked about it here because I only watch tests from trusted people that know what they are doing and talking about, and tech yes man is one of those people.
@@POLARTTYRTM the Arctic freezer ii is the closest you will get to custom loop because of the simple fact the RAD is the biggest on the market of ANY aio .. everyone else uses 27 to 28mm rads as standard ( pure speculation but this could be due to the ASTEK pumps most other companies use ) Arctic uses there own in house pump design !!
@@volvot6rdesignawd702 yeah well, the only thing abose that are DYI 480mm rads that fit in almost no case. LiquidHaus is a pioneer of these custom rads and loops, they even sell server-grade quick disconnect fittings.
@@POLARTTYRTM thermal take ceres 500 case will fit the arctic 420mm rad .. its a tight squeeze and i needed to leave the to bottom fan screws out ( no issue no rattling ) but youre going to find issues with any 420mm in most cases unless you go full tower !! Honestly i prefer sff builds but with these modern cpu's and gpu's everything is getting hotter and hotter so i forced myself down the bigger build for the sake of cooling and the ceres 500 is a smart filtered mesh case ( one of the only midtowers i could find ) that fits the arctic 420mm in.. ohh the thermal take core p3 with fit it but its open air and my love for that case dies with the amount of dust it gathers !! There was another case i bought before it fractal define 7 its specs says it will fit a 420mm rad but the arctic didnt fit so i returned it !!
I put a 360 with phanteks in a friends build and realy look forward to putting noctuas on a 420 in the future. 420 compatible cases are expensive and/or plasticly gaudy, so be ready for that.
thermal take ceres 500 will fit the Arctic freezer 420mm only just but it fits in the front ( remove the added HDD drive caddy ) the ceres 500 is a really on the bigger side of a mid tower but no where near the size of a full tower .. basically mesh with filters on the front and top TG side panel and will fit 370mm long GPU's plus 4 rgb fans included .. its the case im using with rog crosshair x670e gene mATX mobo 7900xtx red devil GPU and the arctic freezer ii 420mm with push pull on the top 2 fans to fill the case and to blow air over the GPU
I will be putting the 360 version in my VM Server/Workstation. I currently have an 'inferior' AIO water cooler on that system, so O can do a comparison between the two.
Take out the cooper lid an add more liquid in the 3 holes on the gasket. There have a lot of air insite. My one (ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360) took around 40-50ml liquid to fill to top.😁
Okay, you sold it for me. Just bought this for my R9 5900x for £110. I was foolishly going to buy the Corsair cooler because everything I have is Corsair thanks to their proprietary eco-system (I'm going to break free this year). I currently have a Noctua NH-D15S (1x 140mm fan, 1x 120mm fan) and it's okay but struggles to keep control of temps in games. I've got a Corsair 7000D case, so hopefully there shouldn't be compatibility issues (it's claimed to support 420mm radiators). I'll edit this comment if I have any issues, the cooler arrives tomorrow.
I've previously used 2 of the 240mm Arctic Liquid Freezer 2, 2 of the 280mm Arctic Liquid Freezer 2, and 1 of the 360mm Arctic Liquid Freezer 2 and I only have one complaint about Arctic. The complaint I have is, my 280mm Arctic AIO was only 2 months old when one of the Arctic 140mm fans started rattling loud. it was the non RGB variant. I loved that 280mm Arctic so much that I just bought a new 280mm A-RGB Arctic AIO instead of getting a new fan since I know I will use the non RGB Arctic 280mm another time and I can get a new fan for it then. Best AIO's on the market without a doubt.
I always wanted to get this one to replace my Snowman cooler even though I really like it, but almost always when I wanted to buy it, the Artic 420mm was out of stock, it truly shows just how crazy good they are since they always sell kinda quick. Wished that Snowman did now an AIO like this one since they did well with their air coolers, maybe they could bring another banger in price/performance.
Arctic has been selling their 420mm AIO on a significant discount (like $95) as an open box on their Ebay store. If the case I have could fit it I would buy it but I got the 360 instead. Arctic sells B Stock items at a discount and still gives you the full 6 year warranty. Just checked eBay and the Liquid Freezer II 420 is still available at their store under B Stock section for just $95.90. They have one left so hopefully you see this comment in time. If not they will have some 280m ones if that also works for you and they go for just $67.19.
closest to custom loop really .. the arctic will squeeze into the thermaltake ceres 500 case only just !! I do think though the 420mm aio in general is a monster and a pain for most mid tower cases anyway that if you can squeeze the arctic in there its a much better cooler !!
Arctic Freezer 34 Sports (and Sports duo) are incredible as well. And their small Arctic Freezer 7 and Freezer i13 are very small but effective nonetheless, and much better than stock Intel coolers.
Used the 34 DUO on my Brother's 7700x build. He got GREAT silicon, -30 UV OC and rock solid stable. Added a 135w power limit (138 is MAX) and it will boost to 5.15 GHz all-core and 5.75 GHz turbo core and this cooler keeps it below 90c in Prime with these BIOS settings.
I have an arctic 120mm, 360mm and the 420mm. The 120mm cools a Ryzen 9 3900x just fine. I had the 360mm on my 5900x and 7950x and now my 420mm of my 7950x3d. They have all be great and not to mention the people that work there are some of the best people to deal with.
Talking about water-cooling & best cooling setups, can you please cover custom water-loop cooling setups? Which are the best CPU water blocks for latest CPUs, and who make the best RTX4090 GPU custom water block?
Did you use their new "Offset" mounting for AMD cpu's? It makes a significant difference if your motherboard has the room for the offset mounting holes. BTW....Arctic has discontinued making MX-5, and their newest MX-6 beats it anyway. There are reviews comparing MX-4 to MX-5 and MX-6.
I'm using this Freezer II 420 ARGB on my 7950X. And even with it, the 7950X still goes up to 91°C under continuous CinebenchR23 multi core test. There is no OC at all just the BIOS defaults. At least the 7950X doesn't go up to 95°C
nice .. my 7600x will not get past 85c in cinebench R23 with the Arctic 420mm.. same no OC stock as a rock bios defaults .. it was built as a ( im impatiently waiting the x3d cpu's ) so thanks for the info on the 7950x temps now i know my 7800x3d for sure will stay under TJ max with the arctic 420mm
@Volvo T6 R design awd It definitely better stay cool with that monster AIO we are using. But man are these Current CPUs freaking Stoves. The 7950X is bad enough with the temps even with this AIO can't imagine the 13900K/KS, it'll probably still hit 100°C with the 420. I'm currently hesitating if i should replace my 7950X with the 7950X3D but i really don't want to spend $700 on the same CPU with a little more cache on it when i bought my 7950X for $550. So i'm convincing myself to keep the regular 7950X lol 😆
@@Gielderst i was going to buy the 7950x3d thats why i kinda overkilled the cooler and the mobo i went rog crosshair x670e gene (well for 2 reasons i plan on staying with that mobo up till the end of the AM5 socket life and i wanted a higher end mobo for VRMs etc etc ) I then thought on the 7900x3d but i was quickly swayed away after the Vcache stacking and the lack there of performance over the 7950x3d .. If i was going to offer any advice on it if you do production work then stay with the 7950x ( the 7950x3d suffers from the same issue the 5800x3d does its great in cache sensitive games but only so so in the rest ) otherwise for pure gaming i ( now ) think the champ will be the 7800x3d .. On the flip side i think being as this is only AMD's second attempt at V cache i see ZEN 5 x3d parts being a better product for the gaming /production ( iron out some of the shortcomings )
Optimum tech compared the arctic P12 fans where a 5 pack costs as much as a single noctua nfa 12 or how its called and it beforms almost indentical as the nocuta fans. Arcit is this no compromise (not even in price) company. Insane Value parts.
the little fan on the water block is a vrm cooler it should be mounted towards the top of the motherboard ... I do wish the waterblcck had some rgb or even just a light strip .. minor compaint . .. I've used arctic for all my am5 builds .. they have performed well .. the thicker rad is the secret .. hopefully other companies follow them . I hate corsair aio's because I have to use icue .. unless it's a all corsair build I avoid using them
Arctic LF II 420 is about 100 EUR(110USD) and is by FAR the best deal possible. I don't know any other PC component, that offers such a price/performance ratio. The only significant problem is that ...this cooler will NOT fit in your case - you need at least 470mm for the radiator and things getting worse if you want to place it on right place - the top of the case. Even Arctic LF 360 needs at least 410mm for the radiator, or removing intake/exhaust fans ...
I have had this 420mm model paired with a 5900x, and never exceeded past 45c under full load and that’s it being oc to the max!! I’ve also used it on a 5800x3d (runs very hot) did some undervolting and it also hasn’t made it past 40’s under full load!
3:25 I think that small fan is to cool the VRMs. (Should say something on the instructions.) Although you don't have yours orientated that way. Years ago I bought an Arctic Freezer 7 Pro, that saved my saninty from a stock Intel cooler that whined. The Freezer 7 Pro was silent, whereas the Intel cooler made a 'warr' noise that constantly fluctuated up and down.
I can vouch for the P14 RGB/aRGB fan which is an improvement on the already very good plain version - the circumferential band around the fan stops the noise the latter suffers at particular RPM by bracing the long blades. I have a couple and they are the quietest 14cm fans I've used by some margin (including the NF-whatever on the Noctua NH-D15S and the Be Quiet! Silent Wings, both of which are well over twice the price).
04:58 Yeah MX 4 still is Arctic's best thermal paste offer. The MX 5 is too thin imo, which is why it suffers badly from pump out effect. The hassle of repasting every 3-6 month is not worth the 1-2° Celsius that the MX 5 performs better than the MX 4. As soon as the pump out effect starts to hit it will perform worse than the MX 4 anyways.
Running a 12900k OC'd to 5.4 with this cooler using Noctua NF-A14 industrial PPC fans in a big Thermaltake case front mounted. I have a 8 drive raid array behind it, 4 nvmes, and and Intel ARC A770 I use for video editing and transcoading in Linux. All this on a Z690 Maximus Extreme. Using AI optimized OC ai can't get above 265 watts and 78C. Maxing out a stable OC I can pull close to 350 watts and only then can I get this AIO to thermal throttle. I just installed ThermalGrizzly contact frame and Kryonaut and temps went up a touch indicating I need to do a remount (those contact frames are touchy. Daily drive using Asus AI optimized OC and its a joy, CPU barely above ambient doing basic tasks. Full transcode will rev up the fans a bit. This week I'm changing out my raid array to sata ssds in a custom rack and will go push pull on the rad mainly to help cool my raid card and pch temps With the old raid stack right behind the rad I had very little flow around the lower motherboard components. This rad is so thick you almost need push pull if you want any in case airflow from the rad. Many many times Ive thought of a custom loop but thats a lot of money and hassle for maybe 100mhz more. Plus I don't plan on an upgrade until at least 15th gen. I would say this AIO is on par with most custom loops Ive seen until you get into 40mm rads and larger pumps. Corsair? Never heard of her... Well I did, couldn't keep my rig cool at 360 at all. With the artic my bios is rating my cooler over 190 points.
Swapped out the stock fans with the same ones. Custom loops are more expensive (especially when people want a specific color match with rgb tubning coolant etc) but if you are like me and care mostly about preformance vs aesthetica( fuck rgb) the pump, Waterblock (ek makes excellent ones) radiator (although I prefer chiller personally just because even better cooling) and coolant are not only better quality ( pumps block radiators everything) idk why you think custom loop cooling is the same as aio maybe someone put together a loop incorrectly or used cheep parts but it's 10-20 degrees better at least than even this aio which imp is the best aio on the market (non rgb version if you wanna save money and don't care about stupid lighting that's a hindrance I'm speaking from an overclocking perspective)and thats not even accounting for things you can do like direct die cooling or instead of the better quality radiators using a chiller anyway a custom loop will last you years and years pumps are industrial grade and won't shit out eventually like an aios and the coolant will be topped off if need be and whenthe loops needs cleaned eventually etc they're not hard to maintain at all and are definitely worth it that being said this aio is the one to buy if you can't afford or don't want to build your own
Also custom tune it man. Ai is way better than it used to be but manual is still better also id have gotteb the apex the boards like the msi godlike and extreme and the other 900-2000 ( z690 asus extreme glacial was 2500 usd) gigabyte extreme etc boards are not going to overclock better ussualy the opposite especially memory all your paying for is usually a few more fan headers m.2 slots(idk why you aren't using them or maybe you are with sata sdds) type a port's and shit like that tho the extreme isn't as absurdly price like it was last gen I'm just saying bc with ddr5 coming in 16 24 32 64 modules don't see a need for 4 dimm boards but that's more for memory overclocking though 2 channes vs 4 is less for the cpu and can potentially help with pushing it or just being more stable anyway sorry for book m.2 gen 4 are dirt cheap right now even the best ones with 2 TB if you aren't using them check on amazon newegg any way may you temps be low abd your clocks be high happy ocing
I'm running 3 4th gen m.2 drives in Linux Raid 0 as my boot/os drive and a fourth as a scratch drive. I'm running 8 2tb sata ssds on a Megaraid 9460-8i hardware raid card for backups and main storage. I got the extreme almost by accident. I had one of the bad Hero boards with the flipped capacitor. My retailer didn't have anymore good Hero boards in stock so he cut $200 off the Extreme to get me to buy it and I did. I still may do a loop but the reality is I could probably get the same performance increase by just going from a 12900k to a 13900k. My chip has an SP of 89 and the bios says it will do 5.5. It does 5.4 fine with this AIO. How would a 12900k at 5.5 with a loop compare to a 13900k with a custom OC? Ive run a custom OC. I actually have one saved that I like at 5.4 all core. But its too noisy for daily work. So I just save it as a profile and run Asus base AI OC most of the time.
@chriss377 I've seen custom loop direct die 6.2 allcore with a 13900kf cinabech in the 70s. And 200 bucks off that's a good deal. friend of mine on a msi a ddr5 board and was able to hit 5.5 all core with their 12900kf. Same rad in the vid non rgb it definitely could clock higher but its hindered by the mother board and I did tell him to get a 690 unify x or tachyon they would go on sale last gen all the time for 350-400 bucks. And yeah if it's for work this aio is plenty
In my opinion this AIO has two best use cases. One is for people running a small OC who want a near silent system. The other is people who could use a custom loop but aren't inclined to build one. I fall into that latter category. A loop would be nice but I'm not leaving enough performance on the table to bother building one. My next PC will probably be a 15th gen, maybe at that point I'll build a loop and pass the guts of this PC onto my kids for gaming.
hey dude, just one thing: The little fan is supposed to be used for VRM cooling, and I think (not sure), but I think I've read you should *really* set it up so that the fan is on top of the unit. For better water flow inside.
I spent a month researching coolers ended up with the rgb 420. It’s literally the best. Zero compromises. Silent and cool. Don’t waste ur time with anything else tbh.
The Artic silent series of fans are great. Lots of airflow at very low rpm. I've used their single rpm silent fans several times on OEM prebuilts which don't have any extra fan headers. Just connect to whatever is handy for 12v and slap one or two in there wherever there's room. Fixes the typical OEM prebuilt terribly airflow problem but doesn't add noise. Those weird HP Pavilions with the perforated side panels being a common one for me to buy cheap and do this to. And they are considerably cheaper than similar options from BeQuiet or others. Prices have gone up recently but they are still less costly and come in 80/90/120/140.
Can't find one single negative in the comments about Arctic. Means they are doing a great job! Also I checked the box and realised there was a qr code for the instruction manual lol (it was mounted upside down and there is no paper manual).
Take a look at their budget low noise cpu coolers, they're great for when you just want to quiet down a simple desktop.
lol you missed a small detail, the fan on that block is supposed to be pointed at a VRM block not a PCIe slot :P
Arctic is closest to custom loop you will find on the market ..
my only issues (there not crazy bad ) is the pump header is more function not flash ( some love the flashy GIF shit or pretty colours ) and the hose orientation into the pump header will be a issue for alot of sff builds..
LT720 AIO 360 beats that 420 easy lol. And its CHEAPER> LT720 cools my 13900ks up to 340 watts. That 420 pump is trash .
There coolers are the best . Back when evenyone was buying the other 420 I watched some reviews and these were beating everything in its class. Im using arctic 420 II with my 11900 and its best cooler for thermals on super hot cpu. My cpu temps from my air cooler dropped to 40c from 80c using hyper 212 could not do it . so i gott the blacck one and it is got insane abilties . Ive never talked about this on channel . But lowe your channel . Hope all is well in aussieland.
Just a note, you mounted the pump upside down. The small fan is to cool the VRMs, it needs to be facing upwards to reach both vrm sides.
i came here to say this
I thought it looked funny
dont forget the AM4 mounting option which makes for better cooling on said platform .. ( offsets it over the parts that require the better cooling ) i understand hes using Intel but Arctic freezer ii AIO's are the best of the best and at the cheaper price they really do cater to both platforms !!
SAME! 😁
@@volvot6rdesignawd702 Can you elaborate on that mounting? I just started buying parts for an AM5 build so it's basically the same bracket.
Arctic's whole lineup is awesome. Their low profile coolers are great for the price, the Freezer 34 is great and their P12 fans are SO GOOD and pretty cheap for what you get.
the new p12 max is awesome
Could not agree more. Only thing I don't like about the P12 fans is certain PWM levels have some motor noise. But it is easy enough to tune fan curves around the resonance points. Can't wait to try the new P12 MAX fans.
So far the best Im able to cool a R95950X with the 120mm AIO
the new p12 fans are the best case fans currently for airflow under 40 dB most people don't run their fans loud anyways, you can get 5 for the price of a single t30 which it outperforms, amazing
@@MDFGamingVideo They have a new more efficient and quieter motor in the fans these days. I bought their P12 fans a couple years ago but never ran into any resonating noise though I've watched video reviews on Amazon of that issue and they were audible so it has happened to some people. In my experience, having had both a Noctua premium A12x25 fan and Noctua Redux fans, the Artic P12's were no louder and cooled about as well though Noctua's fans had a higher quality build but for up to triple the price (Redux fans were ~$15 and the premium fan was $30, Arctic P12's have been as cheap as $5 or $6 on sale but typically are $7-$9 depending on features like PWM, PST, CO ect.).
I haven't heard anything about the P12 Max fans until I ran into this comment section. I'll check them out.
I had the old Arctic 240 cooler. Bought it for 60 bucks back then new. Even then it crushed most of the way more expensive competition. It cooled my 4,8 ghz AMD FX6300 to like 65 Degrees at max under full load in a really really tiny case. Absolutely loved it. Its a damn good company especially for the price.
Highly appreciate the feedback on the Liquid Freezer 420!
You guys are the best!
I will buy your product 🦾
Arctic has exceptionally good price-quality combo in Europe, where it is mostly a lot cheaper than all the other coolers. They even offer refurbished coolers for even less money. In addition they have an amazing customer-support and you can trust them, because if there is an issue, they will let us know about it(referring to aio's from 2021 w copper plate issue) and offer us a solution.
isnt it german, like derbauer are part of it/them (with thermal grizzly as well, he also has lianli signature)
@@iikatinggangsengii2471
No. Arctic is Swiss/German but der8auer has nothing to do with them. He's also not a part of Lian Li, he only designed the O11 lineup. Thermal Grizzly is its own entity.
that was gasket issue ant not the plate, I had mine for 1 year before I saw GN video and upon opening mine - it wasn't bad at all, all I saw was few colored bubles and bit darkened copper plate
@@iikatinggangsengii2471 ARCTIC is Swiss at the root, now headquartered in Germany but with R&D based in Hong Kong and lead by a French (me 😁). The CEO is still the Swiss founder. Truly an international company.
Artic has been a good AIO for a while now. I've used it in a few builds and the thickness of the rads and the price is hard to beat. Supposedly the small fan on the pump also helps circulate air around the power stages which is supposed to help overall performance and longevity as well. One other AIO I like too is the Lian LI Gallahad. Like the Artic it has a slightly thicker rad when compared to other AIO offerings which I think helps the performance of the AIO. The Lian Li is not as thick as the Artic, but they have options to purchase the AIO with their unifans for those who want to spend a little more for the fans for consistency in our builds since you can deck out your entire build with the unifans more easily than the artic build. Keep up the great work.
I’ve been working with Arctic too and I’ve gotta say they’re really on top of their game. Best value for money hands down, plus their things run without sounding like a jet engine!
I have a 5900x and living in a very hot country I was having some temp issues with a 240 AIO Galahad Lian Li. I changed to Arctic freezer II 360 and the improvement was impressive, very impressive. Arctic forever.
The point is, all of Arctic's Liquid freezer II range is really good due to that extra thick radiator and the fans. I have a 280 mm arctic liquid freezer with my 5800x3d and is basically quiet. Soon I will be adding the new P12 Max to the exhaust and P14 Max fans to the cooler.
Waste of money. 😅
@@pietrmuffei8874 at least its not YOUR money
@@pietrmuffei8874 Not really if you can utilize all of this stuff well. Also, I doubt you'd prefer a jet engine as a PC and would pay a bit more for some level of silence.
not sure if there is diminishing returns on the fans really .. Cant say much with arctic but ive slapped a set of noctua 3000rpm industrial fans on NZXT x63 280mm aio and while watching the CAM software underload i see little to no real lower temps but i get a jet engine noise ..
Thats why i swear by the stock arctic freezer ii AIO and fans both quiet and effective !!
@@volvot6rdesignawd702 check out the new p12 max
Got the AF II 420mm cooling my 5800x3d and i am very happy wiff it!
i have the 240 model on an i711700k and it was actually in a recall due to a gasket issue. arctic sent me a new copper plate, gasket, addition fluid and paste. thats standing by your consumers and i have no complaints with the cooler or company and am very satisfied..
I have this front mounted in my evolv x case, fits perfectly and I even done push pull configuration, used 3 case fans included with evlov case to push and rotated included argb arctic fans to pull.
I have to seriously recommend it especially because of how awesome the arctic customer support was and they sent me additional screws free of charge for my push pull configuration.. Unlike some other crappy brands like Thermaltake that refuses to even answer my emails
bought a Freezer 280mm aio and 6 P12 fans yesterday, video came at perfect time
I’m using this on my current build. Arctic is regularly a top performer even with their 360mm version. I choose it because it was a top performer at 360mm and the 420mm just ups the ante on cooling. They also build their own rather than simply branding something made by someone else. I did replace the fans with what I considered better fans and run the fans separately off the motherboard rather than coupling them with the included splitter cable.
That was a Banger. Thanks Brian. Keep the good content going.
Rocking the 280 since the GN reviews. Great piece of kit and alpine support are amazing when it comes to sending new mounting kits (am4 offset etc)
Arctic Freezer II 240 on an i5-13600K. Idle at 30C. Gaming Cyberpunk 2077 at 60C. Cinebench at 95C after 10 minutes. Got it off Arctic's Ebay B-Stock store for $60 shipped
I have this exact 420 on my 13700KF in a 7000D Airflow and it's fantastic so far. The good thing about Arctic is that they don't use the generic Asetek design like most other AIO's.
You have room for a push/pull with fans?
@@pseudomagics4576 Yes, 6x 140mm fans on the 420mm rad at the top, and 3x 140mm at the front of case. The case is a full tower so it all fits nicely.
That's also why they are louder.
Also got it in 7000D Airflow but with just 5800x3D. It was pleasure to install.
@@simptrix007 Nice, that's a pretty efficient chip so your temps must be really good.
I am impressed that it took you so long to test it out. I own 3 of them 2x280mm and 1x420. No issues for years. Also push pull config make even more magic
Seriously, you actually believe that push/pull fan setup is doing anything beneficial? Gamer’s Nexus, Linus, Derbauer (I think) and several others have ALL confirmed on several different brands and rad sizes that all push/pull fan setups are an absolute complete waste of time, money and noise. Even on a triple fan rad, whether 360mm or 420mm, the very best improvement from adding the additional 3 extra fans and all the extra noise is generally in the vicinity of 1-2degrees lower temps. The most I’ve seen on any review site was a 4.6degree improvement but the noise is at least doubled, or even louder if using 2000+ rpm fans.
Don’t forget about the shitloads of additional dust and crap that the extra 3 fans are now pulling into your case and covering every component in an even thicker layer of crud. There just aren’t any real, tangible benefits that actually make push/pull a worthwhile option in ANY rad setup.
ive got the same one but the 360 and its absolutely the best ive ever used and there technical support/customer support are absolutely out of this world.
Just upgrading my system and ordered a 360 Freezer 2 for my new Lian Li O11 Dynamic. Currently use a Freezer 2 240 in an Antec NX410 Case but got some trouble to keep the 13700K Cool under load :D For gaming it´s totaly fine, but Benchmarks, especially Prime and Cinebench send the CPU to hell xD
But the 360 is a powerhouse as well, cant wait for it.
Great vid as always
I also chose the Artic Freezer II 420 mm and upgraded it with the NOCTUA NF-A14 iPPC-2000 PWM, which generate almost twice the pressure at the same volume. I use it to cool my INTEL 14900K and it's simply awesome. The thick cooler in combination with the powerful NOCTUA industrial fans is simply unbeatable. I have the power limit at 300 watts and am far from the 100 degree Celsius CPU limit.
Part of the reason as why Arctic Liquid Freezer II is that good even till now on the Zen4 or intel Gen13th platform. (highend processor) are due to these factors.
1) They have the offset bracket which aligns properly with the Zen4 processor, as the processor Dies are not centered. with the offset bracket the coldplate fin stack inside the pump aligns dead center on the processor IHS (the dies area). As for intel, it's just dead centered.
2) It has the advanatge of having a 38mm thick radiator which has bigger surface area to absorb more heat off the IHS of the processor, therefore you dont need to run fans at high rpms, be it the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240, 360, 280 and 420, infact best are the 280s and 420s. Thats why at lower rpm, it can get the job done. Of course if you want to ram up the RPM of those P12 or P14 fans, it's even better.
3) If you are not aware of, the reversion of this product which are after Rev 3, Arctic have done a wider fin stack and taller fin stack in the coldpate.
Byran, i have sent you an email of my findings which you might be interested as I have done an in-depth series of how this LF2 is being engineered.
Btw, you mounted the Block upside down. The fan is for cooling the VRMs, as they dont get direct airflow when watercooling
Arctic not only got good performance & customer support, but also a lower price than most of its competition!
If you want even more performance, they just launched a jet engine version of their P12 fan for $13. Runs at 3000+ RPM max, much like Noctua's iPPC or Phanteks T30 at $30-35.
P12 Max 3300rpm
Have to agree their customer support was awesome to talk with and they provided me with additional screws free of charge for my push pull configuration on liquid freezer ii 420.
Unfortunately those new p12 fans are not available yet, so I bought regular ones for push and pull configuration on my suprim liquid x
Best damn customer support I've been in contact with as well. Edit: 3:02 Why did you mount the VRM-fan away from the VRM? xD
this
corsair's rma department sucks ass
Very much agree Artic is a solid good brand, hope more people made video's about them.
Hey U inspired me to take risks when buying used parts!
I literally just bought 2 "new" faulty cards today. One GTX 970 4GB (Asus) for 30 bucks and a r9 280x for 25 bucks. Both are faulty, the GTX 970 often needs 2-3 boots to start and the r9 280x got really hold and the owner installed a water cooler. Now he sells it as faulty, cause it got so hot with the stock blower. :D I also get the original blower cooler with it. Extremly good buy. I probabaly go to fit a cpu cooler or a AIO to the r9 280x. :)
ohh man you got the Sonic motherboard? It's so cool looking, would love a review on it tbh ;)
Have one of these mounted in a 90° case cooling a 13900k
With a contact plate, stock settings ambient 70°F, it will keep the 13900k at about 93°c for approximately 5 hours of rendering
After 5 hours the 13900k fully heatsoaks my Arctic II 420 and it'll throttle from that point onward at 100°c
Quite impressive that it lasts that long, but if your renders/projects go on longer than that, you're going to want to seriously consider a dual rad custom loop to delay full heatsoak for as long as possible
Have you managed to get hold of a JIUSHARK Diamond JF13K to test yet? They sound pretty decent.
Thanks for the awesome review. I'm scared to fit this and my beef cake 4080 in the same case lol.
I have been running an Artic Liquid Freezer 2 -280 (non RGB) on a i7-12700K and without any “tweaking” it self boosts to 4.9GHz all core (spec 3.6) without fuss, drama or excess noise.
push that 12700k beyond 4.9ghz, and the power ramps up a fair bit. Performance also scales at least.. I think at around 5.3ghz is where scaling and power draw starts getting more concerning on average. Luckily ADL undervolts well too.
Excellent timing, I've been looking at getting one of these (a shame the ARGB version isn't in stock in the UK for a sane price).
This 5900X wants to go faster, but it is hitting 80c (4.6ghz all core) on a Noctua D14 (with 2xP14 fans, they are good!). And as it happens I have the Torrent case (don't mind a little trimming).
i used to work at Scorptec in Melbourne and i asked about this cooler and my managers said that this cooler has a high return rate. Due to the pump dieing. Or the fan on top of the Aio Cpu block.
I LOVE Artic ! I have the 'Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240' *BUT ... What surprises me, is that the AIGO is also tolerable GOOD , while it is 360mm, compared to those 420mm's !*
Btw ... I paid (just) 79 euro for my 'Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240' It's such an GREAT deal, for that kind of performance !!! NO other brand can deliver that !
I ordered one of these for $127.14 off Amazon a couple days ago. It'll be a bit til it comes in, but I look forward to it
This is a great review. Really interesting. I'm just building a 14900K build for my wife and will have a large case with a lot of harddrives so can fit a 420 cooler. The Corsair sounds really loud so that feels like a no go, but this one is really low. I wonder if one would get even lower noise by replacing the fans to Noctua 140 fans.
This cooler actually looks so good that I consider replacing my current air cooler for an older AMD 3990X that uses Noctua air cooling. To be fair it does not really have a temperature problem, but I would maybe increase the frequency a bit.
thats for VRM cooling (the small fan) its desinged to throw air at the vrm above the socket,your Pump head is backwards, flip it 180 degrees
Nice video and i'd agree that Corsair is overpricing surfing on RGB hype...Imho a comparison with the Alphacool Eisbaier Aurora 420mm (copper radiator) would be worht it (priced 190 euros in UE). pretty silent, performs well (28 °C idle on my Ryzen 7 5800X3d) , open loop concept, making it available for both CPU & GPU cooling in a single AIO
I love my 420 paired with my i9 13900k, it just stays quiet even when you're pushing the CPU. Amazing value for money.
Just got this cooler installed for my 13900K, can confirm it fits the View 71 at the top. But barely though, most people will have issues with fitment.
I haven't done much testing but brought my idle temp down to the upper 30s. I was getting upper 40s and mid 50s with my TT 360 AIO.
Hey man, im thinking this for my 13900k are you happy with this?
Did you test this further in games for example?
@@DrizztRed Have you got any answer related to this combination. I'm plannig to buy arctic 420 mm, but I'm confused.
I use their 360mm without the rgb. I love it because it comes pre-assembled and only uses one pwm plug and thats it. Mounting with the little sticker spacers is a bit of drag though
Same and I love it! Cools my i7 13th gen pretty good. won't pass 60c while gaming
Will you ever review the DeepCool LT720 AIO? It has the most unique and interesting pump casing I've ever seen, but I would like to know about it's performance.
The DeepCool LT720 was tested in this video from der8auer. (ruclips.net/video/tYARk9OQsaU/видео.html) and there are like a dozen other less known/reputable reviews on RUclips. Search is your friend. 😀 FYI, it looks better, but can't cool like an Arctic Freezer II. But it's not bad, it just costs more and doesn't cool as much. Plus the quality of Arctic is hard to beat, it's got that typical German engineering, yet somehow doesn't have the typical high price tag.
@@Bundy714 oopsie, didn't know der8auer had tested it. Howewer, I asked about it here because I only watch tests from trusted people that know what they are doing and talking about, and tech yes man is one of those people.
@@POLARTTYRTM the Arctic freezer ii is the closest you will get to custom loop because of the simple fact the RAD is the biggest on the market of ANY aio ..
everyone else uses 27 to 28mm rads as standard ( pure speculation but this could be due to the ASTEK pumps most other companies use ) Arctic uses there own in house pump design !!
@@volvot6rdesignawd702 yeah well, the only thing abose that are DYI 480mm rads that fit in almost no case. LiquidHaus is a pioneer of these custom rads and loops, they even sell server-grade quick disconnect fittings.
@@POLARTTYRTM thermal take ceres 500 case will fit the arctic 420mm rad .. its a tight squeeze and i needed to leave the to bottom fan screws out ( no issue no rattling ) but youre going to find issues with any 420mm in most cases unless you go full tower !!
Honestly i prefer sff builds but with these modern cpu's and gpu's everything is getting hotter and hotter so i forced myself down the bigger build for the sake of cooling and the ceres 500 is a smart filtered mesh case ( one of the only midtowers i could find ) that fits the arctic 420mm in..
ohh the thermal take core p3 with fit it but its open air and my love for that case dies with the amount of dust it gathers !!
There was another case i bought before it fractal define 7 its specs says it will fit a 420mm rad but the arctic didnt fit so i returned it !!
I put a 360 with phanteks in a friends build and realy look forward to putting noctuas on a 420 in the future. 420 compatible cases are expensive and/or plasticly gaudy, so be ready for that.
thermal take ceres 500 will fit the Arctic freezer 420mm only just but it fits in the front ( remove the added HDD drive caddy ) the ceres 500 is a really on the bigger side of a mid tower but no where near the size of a full tower ..
basically mesh with filters on the front and top TG side panel and will fit 370mm long GPU's plus 4 rgb fans included ..
its the case im using with rog crosshair x670e gene mATX mobo 7900xtx red devil GPU and the arctic freezer ii 420mm with push pull on the top 2 fans to fill the case and to blow air over the GPU
I have the 420 non rgb version. Like you say it is in its own league. Amazing product.
Will need to buy this now...
I will be putting the 360 version in my VM Server/Workstation. I currently have an 'inferior' AIO water cooler on that system, so O can do a comparison between the two.
Take out the cooper lid an add more liquid in the 3 holes on the gasket. There have a lot of air insite. My one (ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360) took around 40-50ml liquid to fill to top.😁
Okay, you sold it for me. Just bought this for my R9 5900x for £110. I was foolishly going to buy the Corsair cooler because everything I have is Corsair thanks to their proprietary eco-system (I'm going to break free this year). I currently have a Noctua NH-D15S (1x 140mm fan, 1x 120mm fan) and it's okay but struggles to keep control of temps in games. I've got a Corsair 7000D case, so hopefully there shouldn't be compatibility issues (it's claimed to support 420mm radiators).
I'll edit this comment if I have any issues, the cooler arrives tomorrow.
I've previously used 2 of the 240mm Arctic Liquid Freezer 2, 2 of the 280mm Arctic Liquid Freezer 2, and 1 of the 360mm Arctic Liquid Freezer 2 and I only have one complaint about Arctic. The complaint I have is, my 280mm Arctic AIO was only 2 months old when one of the Arctic 140mm fans started rattling loud. it was the non RGB variant. I loved that 280mm Arctic so much that I just bought a new 280mm A-RGB Arctic AIO instead of getting a new fan since I know I will use the non RGB Arctic 280mm another time and I can get a new fan for it then. Best AIO's on the market without a doubt.
I always wanted to get this one to replace my Snowman cooler even though I really like it, but almost always when I wanted to buy it, the Artic 420mm was out of stock, it truly shows just how crazy good they are since they always sell kinda quick.
Wished that Snowman did now an AIO like this one since they did well with their air coolers, maybe they could bring another banger in price/performance.
Arctic has been selling their 420mm AIO on a significant discount (like $95) as an open box on their Ebay store. If the case I have could fit it I would buy it but I got the 360 instead. Arctic sells B Stock items at a discount and still gives you the full 6 year warranty.
Just checked eBay and the Liquid Freezer II 420 is still available at their store under B Stock section for just $95.90. They have one left so hopefully you see this comment in time. If not they will have some 280m ones if that also works for you and they go for just $67.19.
Love seeing this cooler in action. If only it weren't so MASSIVE! I know that Thermaltake has one at a similar price point, the Thermaltake TH420.
closest to custom loop really .. the arctic will squeeze into the thermaltake ceres 500 case only just !!
I do think though the 420mm aio in general is a monster and a pain for most mid tower cases anyway that if you can squeeze the arctic in there its a much better cooler !!
It will go great with my 1000d case 😎
the small fan on base heatsink or water block is for helping to move some air and cool the vrm's and choke's
Arctic Freezer 34 Sports (and Sports duo) are incredible as well. And their small Arctic Freezer 7 and Freezer i13 are very small but effective nonetheless, and much better than stock Intel coolers.
Used the 34 DUO on my Brother's 7700x build. He got GREAT silicon, -30 UV OC and rock solid stable. Added a 135w power limit (138 is MAX) and it will boost to 5.15 GHz all-core and 5.75 GHz turbo core and this cooler keeps it below 90c in Prime with these BIOS settings.
I have an arctic 120mm, 360mm and the 420mm. The 120mm cools a Ryzen 9 3900x just fine. I had the 360mm on my 5900x and 7950x and now my 420mm of my 7950x3d. They have all be great and not to mention the people that work there are some of the best people to deal with.
Have a 360 version and am so happy with it
Cool. Cool. How does it compare to Alphacool Eisbaer Pro Aurora 420?
artic products been on my computers since the late 2000's fantastic value and performance.
I have 360 aio arctic freezer and 4 140mm arctic p14 a rgb with fan hub its amazing how they keep eveything cool :)
I have a arctic 280 its whisper quiet, great instructions, 1 4 pin connection, vrm cooling. Cools my 13600KF great. 800RPM under gaming load
Got 3 arctic freezer ii 280 on 3 of my PCs. Been using them for the last 3 years. Costs the same as high end air cooling.
Talking about water-cooling & best cooling setups, can you please cover custom water-loop cooling setups? Which are the best CPU water blocks for latest CPUs, and who make the best RTX4090 GPU custom water block?
I don't like that Artic ignores Threadripper socket.
So MSI Core Liquid 360R V2 it is for me, with an extra set of fans for push-pull.
Got the Liquid Freezer II 420 A-RGB for 119€ last week... just awesome
Did you use their new "Offset" mounting for AMD cpu's? It makes a significant difference if your motherboard has the room for the offset mounting holes. BTW....Arctic has discontinued making MX-5, and their newest MX-6 beats it anyway. There are reviews comparing MX-4 to MX-5 and MX-6.
I'm using this Freezer II 420 ARGB on my 7950X.
And even with it, the 7950X still goes up to 91°C under continuous CinebenchR23 multi core test.
There is no OC at all just the BIOS defaults.
At least the 7950X doesn't go up to 95°C
nice .. my 7600x will not get past 85c in cinebench R23 with the Arctic 420mm.. same no OC stock as a rock bios defaults ..
it was built as a ( im impatiently waiting the x3d cpu's ) so thanks for the info on the 7950x temps now i know my 7800x3d for sure will stay under TJ max with the arctic 420mm
@Volvo T6 R design awd It definitely better stay cool with that monster AIO we are using. But man are these Current CPUs freaking Stoves. The 7950X is bad enough with the temps even with this AIO can't imagine the 13900K/KS, it'll probably still hit 100°C with the 420.
I'm currently hesitating if i should replace my 7950X with the 7950X3D but i really don't want to spend $700 on the same CPU with a little more cache on it when i bought my 7950X for $550.
So i'm convincing myself to keep the regular 7950X lol 😆
@@Gielderst i was going to buy the 7950x3d thats why i kinda overkilled the cooler and the mobo i went rog crosshair x670e gene (well for 2 reasons i plan on staying with that mobo up till the end of the AM5 socket life and i wanted a higher end mobo for VRMs etc etc )
I then thought on the 7900x3d but i was quickly swayed away after the Vcache stacking and the lack there of performance over the 7950x3d ..
If i was going to offer any advice on it if you do production work then stay with the 7950x ( the 7950x3d suffers from the same issue the 5800x3d does its great in cache sensitive games but only so so in the rest )
otherwise for pure gaming i ( now ) think the champ will be the 7800x3d ..
On the flip side i think being as this is only AMD's second attempt at V cache i see ZEN 5 x3d parts being a better product for the gaming /production ( iron out some of the shortcomings )
Optimum tech compared the arctic P12 fans where a 5 pack costs as much as a single noctua nfa 12 or how its called and it beforms almost indentical as the nocuta fans. Arcit is this no compromise (not even in price) company. Insane Value parts.
the little fan on the water block is a vrm cooler it should be mounted towards the top of the motherboard ... I do wish the waterblcck had some rgb or even just a light strip .. minor compaint . .. I've used arctic for all my am5 builds .. they have performed well .. the thicker rad is the secret .. hopefully other companies follow them . I hate corsair aio's because I have to use icue .. unless it's a all corsair build I avoid using them
Look at their new p12 max Fans, they are absolut amazing. I hope they will add them to the freezer!
Arctic coolers are amazing the only thing they really lacked was RGB that's a game changer for people who love a bit of RGB with their cooler.
Have a o11 air mini w/ a front 280 arctic aio, 5 p12 fans & rest stock fans. Love Arctic. Simple, efficient, great price.
Thanks. Still using EVO212's on my pc fam but if I upgrade certainly interesting.
let's not forget customer service , where there's Artic that is leagues ahead of everyone
Arctic LF II 420 is about 100 EUR(110USD) and is by FAR the best deal possible. I don't know any other PC component, that offers such a price/performance ratio. The only significant problem is that ...this cooler will NOT fit in your case - you need at least 470mm for the radiator and things getting worse if you want to place it on right place - the top of the case. Even Arctic LF 360 needs at least 410mm for the radiator, or removing intake/exhaust fans ...
Arctic is top quality, and thier customer service is legendary.
i got the 280 rad version. Its a beast! 420 blaze it
all good but what is with the small hoses - they should goto bigger hoses and fittings = more flow/less resistance
It’s still going to be restricted by the thin as fuk rad fins….
I've read that 30mm fan spins between 1000-3000 rpm. That sounds like a lot of noise to me? Did you do any noise tests in tbese coolers?
Could you test the JIUSHARK Diamond JF13K when its available please.
I have had this 420mm model paired with a 5900x, and never exceeded past 45c under full load and that’s it being oc to the max!! I’ve also used it on a 5800x3d (runs very hot) did some undervolting and it also hasn’t made it past 40’s under full load!
3:25 I think that small fan is to cool the VRMs. (Should say something on the instructions.) Although you don't have yours orientated that way.
Years ago I bought an Arctic Freezer 7 Pro, that saved my saninty from a stock Intel cooler that whined. The Freezer 7 Pro was silent, whereas the Intel cooler made a 'warr' noise that constantly fluctuated up and down.
I can vouch for the P14 RGB/aRGB fan which is an improvement on the already very good plain version - the circumferential band around the fan stops the noise the latter suffers at particular RPM by bracing the long blades. I have a couple and they are the quietest 14cm fans I've used by some margin (including the NF-whatever on the Noctua NH-D15S and the Be Quiet! Silent Wings, both of which are well over twice the price).
04:58 Yeah MX 4 still is Arctic's best thermal paste offer. The MX 5 is too thin imo, which is why it suffers badly from pump out effect. The hassle of repasting every 3-6 month is not worth the 1-2° Celsius that the MX 5 performs better than the MX 4. As soon as the pump out effect starts to hit it will perform worse than the MX 4 anyways.
I thought the small fan is for vrm cooling and is supposed to be installed upwards?
Running a 12900k OC'd to 5.4 with this cooler using Noctua NF-A14 industrial PPC fans in a big Thermaltake case front mounted. I have a 8 drive raid array behind it, 4 nvmes, and and Intel ARC A770 I use for video editing and transcoading in Linux. All this on a Z690 Maximus Extreme. Using AI optimized OC ai can't get above 265 watts and 78C. Maxing out a stable OC I can pull close to 350 watts and only then can I get this AIO to thermal throttle. I just installed ThermalGrizzly contact frame and Kryonaut and temps went up a touch indicating I need to do a remount (those contact frames are touchy.
Daily drive using Asus AI optimized OC and its a joy, CPU barely above ambient doing basic tasks. Full transcode will rev up the fans a bit.
This week I'm changing out my raid array to sata ssds in a custom rack and will go push pull on the rad mainly to help cool my raid card and pch temps
With the old raid stack right behind the rad I had very little flow around the lower motherboard components. This rad is so thick you almost need push pull if you want any in case airflow from the rad.
Many many times Ive thought of a custom loop but thats a lot of money and hassle for maybe 100mhz more. Plus I don't plan on an upgrade until at least 15th gen. I would say this AIO is on par with most custom loops Ive seen until you get into 40mm rads and larger pumps. Corsair? Never heard of her... Well I did, couldn't keep my rig cool at 360 at all. With the artic my bios is rating my cooler over 190 points.
Swapped out the stock fans with the same ones. Custom loops are more expensive (especially when people want a specific color match with rgb tubning coolant etc) but if you are like me and care mostly about preformance vs aesthetica( fuck rgb) the pump, Waterblock (ek makes excellent ones) radiator (although I prefer chiller personally just because even better cooling) and coolant are not only better quality ( pumps block radiators everything) idk why you think custom loop cooling is the same as aio maybe someone put together a loop incorrectly or used cheep parts but it's 10-20 degrees better at least than even this aio which imp is the best aio on the market (non rgb version if you wanna save money and don't care about stupid lighting that's a hindrance I'm speaking from an overclocking perspective)and thats not even accounting for things you can do like direct die cooling or instead of the better quality radiators using a chiller anyway a custom loop will last you years and years pumps are industrial grade and won't shit out eventually like an aios and the coolant will be topped off if need be and whenthe loops needs cleaned eventually etc they're not hard to maintain at all and are definitely worth it that being said this aio is the one to buy if you can't afford or don't want to build your own
Also custom tune it man. Ai is way better than it used to be but manual is still better also id have gotteb the apex the boards like the msi godlike and extreme and the other 900-2000 ( z690 asus extreme glacial was 2500 usd) gigabyte extreme etc boards are not going to overclock better ussualy the opposite especially memory all your paying for is usually a few more fan headers m.2 slots(idk why you aren't using them or maybe you are with sata sdds) type a port's and shit like that tho the extreme isn't as absurdly price like it was last gen I'm just saying bc with ddr5 coming in 16 24 32 64 modules don't see a need for 4 dimm boards but that's more for memory overclocking though 2 channes vs 4 is less for the cpu and can potentially help with pushing it or just being more stable anyway sorry for book m.2 gen 4 are dirt cheap right now even the best ones with 2 TB if you aren't using them check on amazon newegg any way may you temps be low abd your clocks be high happy ocing
I'm running 3 4th gen m.2 drives in Linux Raid 0 as my boot/os drive and a fourth as a scratch drive. I'm running 8 2tb sata ssds on a Megaraid 9460-8i hardware raid card for backups and main storage.
I got the extreme almost by accident. I had one of the bad Hero boards with the flipped capacitor. My retailer didn't have anymore good Hero boards in stock so he cut $200 off the Extreme to get me to buy it and I did.
I still may do a loop but the reality is I could probably get the same performance increase by just going from a 12900k to a 13900k. My chip has an SP of 89 and the bios says it will do 5.5. It does 5.4 fine with this AIO. How would a 12900k at 5.5 with a loop compare to a 13900k with a custom OC?
Ive run a custom OC. I actually have one saved that I like at 5.4 all core. But its too noisy for daily work. So I just save it as a profile and run Asus base AI OC most of the time.
@chriss377 I've seen custom loop direct die 6.2 allcore with a 13900kf cinabech in the 70s. And 200 bucks off that's a good deal. friend of mine on a msi a ddr5 board and was able to hit 5.5 all core with their 12900kf. Same rad in the vid non rgb it definitely could clock higher but its hindered by the mother board and I did tell him to get a 690 unify x or tachyon they would go on sale last gen all the time for 350-400 bucks. And yeah if it's for work this aio is plenty
In my opinion this AIO has two best use cases. One is for people running a small OC who want a near silent system. The other is people who could use a custom loop but aren't inclined to build one. I fall into that latter category. A loop would be nice but I'm not leaving enough performance on the table to bother building one. My next PC will probably be a 15th gen, maybe at that point I'll build a loop and pass the guts of this PC onto my kids for gaming.
There is Arctic MX-6 now, lol.
How much better is this then a really good aircooler like the Noctuah nh-d15
Might grab one for 12700KF 7900XTX build. Have an Assassin 120 SE though maybe I'll step the cooling up.
420 owner here. if you have the case to fit it, god damn its so good
I was an early adopter of these, the 360 modal fits most cases, the 3 I own have been trouble free.
I have their 280mm and love it.
I have the Corsair 150i but I used thermal grisly kryonaut and replace the Corsair fans with noctuas
Thanks, Brian.
hey dude, just one thing:
The little fan is supposed to be used for VRM cooling, and I think (not sure), but I think I've read you should *really* set it up so that the fan is on top of the unit. For better water flow inside.
I spent a month researching coolers ended up with the rgb 420. It’s literally the best. Zero compromises. Silent and cool. Don’t waste ur time with anything else tbh.
Is it as frozen as the snowman?
The Artic silent series of fans are great. Lots of airflow at very low rpm. I've used their single rpm silent fans several times on OEM prebuilts which don't have any extra fan headers. Just connect to whatever is handy for 12v and slap one or two in there wherever there's room. Fixes the typical OEM prebuilt terribly airflow problem but doesn't add noise. Those weird HP Pavilions with the perforated side panels being a common one for me to buy cheap and do this to. And they are considerably cheaper than similar options from BeQuiet or others. Prices have gone up recently but they are still less costly and come in 80/90/120/140.
I have this cooling my 5950x and it does an amazing job