I've had this cooler on my i9-12900K (with push pull config) for about 8 months now and I never see temps above 70 degrees while gaming, it really is a beast.
In my opinion Arctic Freezer create Best AIO price vs performance. Myself have 360mm version and I'm very happy.My Ryzen 3900x overclock 40 degress on a desktop and 50 degress while gaming.Totally quiet !!! 10000% recommended !!!
I have a tinker itx build with a thermaltake core v1 and since I upgraded my 3900x to a 5950x in my main rig I thought i might put a 3900x in the itx case. Right now i have a 3600 with a wraith prism cooler and it works fine and for the gpu i have a reference 5700xt. I have a radeon vii on the shelf thinking about throwing it in just for the fun of it but i will have to change out the 500watt psu for a 750 i have. The Arctic Freezer 2 seems to be one of the best performing aio’s on the market and very simple to install. I was debating on a air cooler 150mm max height or a 120 aio. Ive actually seen a thermalright macho sbm cooler in a core v1 it shouldn’t fit but i have one of those I’m not using. I fill like the macho coolers are very underrated they cool good and are very quiet. I also picked up another Arctic fan they are really cheap and will cut another 2-3 degree’s off. And I’m glad it has the vrm fan because the wraith prism cooler helped cool the vrm’s and im scared vrm’s might get hotter with the 3900x on the cheaper msi b450i board. I think i will try to run it at 4ghz lowest voltage possible maybe 4.2 because thats what the 3600’s running i dont want to lose gaming performance. And it looks like i might be switching back to intel soon if those benchmarks are true.
Okay, that was a lot to go through^^ First off, congrats on the amount of hardware you have lying around, you're living the dream. On the Thermalright Macho, until now I did not have the opportunity to test it, though I will definitely put it on my list (there are already a bunch of other Thermalright things on there). About the 150mm air vs AIO, you could go with something like a U9S, but I don't believe this would cut it for a 3900x or 5950x. Funnily enough, today I filmed the video where I build a new Test-Bench for CPU & AIO coolers, which uses a 3900x. So if don't forget, I can comment the results for both the LFII & U9S C.B once I'm done with benchmarking ^^ On the VRM's getting too hot, I wouldn't bother too much about that. As long as your Case isn't a shoe carton you'll be fine
Thanks for the review. How flexible are the cables? Do I need to put it in a case with a 60mm CPU? If you bend the cables, how much height is left? On the website they measure up to the rings but do not take into account the tubes.
The difference would be extremely minimal and absolutely un-measurable with normal hardware. And don’t forget that this would go both sides. Say you’re case interior is cooler than the liquid, then you potentiallly loose.
I use the LFII-120 with my new system Z690/i5-13600KF/DDR5 with a Thermalright Contact Frame + Arctic MX-6 and with a second P12 fan in Push-Pull to queeze the max out its performance because my nice + loved now kind of Vintage Lian-Li case (w all Arctic P12+14 fans) I still use for 15y don't fit larger Rads...but this set up is more than capable dead cool + quiet.
Hello. I have an Arctic Freezer 34 eSports Duo and I'm considering to buy this AIO. Do you think there will be much difference between them? I can't buy 240/280 version of this AIO because of size, of my case.
Hi, Sorry but until now I didn't test the Freezer 34, nor did I ever had one. Therefore I really don't want to make any assumptions here. But I'm currently reviewing the Freezer 50, which should perform better than a Freezer 34. Once that reviews is done you can maybe interpret If or how much more you could get with the LF II.
@@asdolin42 Ups, yeah I just saw that the video didn't yet include the previousely covered coolers. Newer videos will have a more extensive Benchmark list, but here's a short preview of my excel file: 3900x 4.36ghz @ 1.36vCore. Freezer 50: 51°C LF 120: 52°C NH-D15: 48°C All temps are above ambient and at full fan speed.
A better option for a 120mm AIO is taking a Corsair H60 radiator and swapping out the fan for a Phanteks T30 fan. I did that to mine on a mini-ITX build in a SilverStone SG05BB-Lite case, and it cooled my CPU by 8 degC vs the stock fan.
The Arctic Liquid Freezer II is a much better AIO than the Corsair H60. It has a thicker radiator, and is just engineered better in general. The fan on the Arctic is a low RPM/low noise fan. You'd get lower temps by putting the Phanteks T30 fan on this Arctic cooler.
@@zues287 a thicker radiator won't fit in the case I have but a "standard" thickness one does, and I had to do a little modification to the drive bay to make it work. The thicker radiator won't clear the drive cage but a thicker fan will. CPU temps don't go above 42 degC during normal usage or 54 degC while gaming.
I recenty bought this product based on your well informed video. So thank you as a start. But there is an issue I'm having with the mounting clips for 3000 series cpu. Whether I installed the cooler to offset or standart position the top clip is in contact(or extremely close) with the capacitors nearby(Asus Prime x570 motherboard). I sent an email about this to Arctic Support but they didn't return at all. So what to do about it? I'm constantly checking the capacitors if there's heat or something else. It seems to be fine but I have concerns about longevity or any potential harm to the motherboard or to the capacitors.
Hi, Well I have a similar issue on an MSI board. Sometimes board manufacturers do not respect the official specs of the Socket which then ends up with a capacitor in the way. In my case, my cooler mounting clip was barely touching the capacitor. It was touching it, but not in a way that it put any force onto it. Try to check if it really touches it and if it adds some force onto the capacitor. The heat is absolutely not the issue, the problem is it could potentially break the capacitor off the motherboard. But as long as the cap is not being pushed, or just "barely" touched, there is no issue whatsoever.
Yes, of course it's possible, but you have to consider the airflow. You are better off with intake from the front and a decent radiator on the m.2 ssd.
@@aessniper a tiny bit yes. when I installed it I immidiately thought about compatibility issues as I had a couple of Mobos with that issue. Seems to be solving two issues at once :p
@@aessniper Normal. But according to Gamers Nexus’s video the difference was 1.7*C on a 3950x@200watt. I doubt that my mini 3700x with it’s quite 100w would even make it to 1*C :p
@Benjamin Zarkhin That's not quite how it works. If the radiator is installed in a way that the tubes are going in at the top, but the highest point of the rad is still higher than the pump, the air will stay trapped in the that little block where the tubes go in. I get your argument, but if you were right, and the pump/flow would be strong enough to press the air downhill through the tubes again, why would it then do it when the rad is oriented tubes bottom? After all it's a loop and if the pump is strong enough to do it in one orientation, it would be in the other one too?
I have this cooler and I am ready to install it, but I have a question I'm hoping you or someone can help me with: On my motherboard I have CPU fan header and also CPU_Fan3_Pump. which should I plug this into? CPU Fan makes sense but I'm not sure, and I don't want to damage anything by mistake. Thanks!!
hello i have a question and i would like to buy the artic freezer ii and equip it with transparent tubes i can see that the holders on the fitting are made of steel i expect a nasty surprise when i cut them off. can someone help me. thank you guys
Those holders are not metal. They seem to be some sort of thick plastic with some metallic paint on them. I would love to check for you, but this would involve me scratching it, which I don't really want ^^. You should be able to take them off by heating them with a heat gun and pulling like a mad man. However, I have no idea what's underneath them. Probably the same type of plastic valve you would see on soft-tube fittings. If you are able to get the holders off, you should also be able to glue them back on. But I'm pretty sure they are not actually "holding" anything and more an esthetic thing. So my best guess would be to ply them off with heat, cut off the tubes, and fix the new tubes with very thin zip-ties in order to glue the rings back on. Good luck with your project :P
I've had this cooler on my i9-12900K (with push pull config) for about 8 months now and I never see temps above 70 degrees while gaming, it really is a beast.
Thank you for this nice video! 😉
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it :)
In my opinion Arctic Freezer create Best AIO price vs performance. Myself have 360mm version and I'm very happy.My Ryzen 3900x overclock 40 degress on a desktop and 50 degress while gaming.Totally quiet !!! 10000% recommended !!!
Absolutely right. Nothing to add here
Love your review and humour! Brilliant video for a brilliant AIO. You deserve more likes and subs!
Thanks! Means a lot.
I’m glad you enjoyed it :)
Getting this for an i7 8700 pc I'm building on a tight budget, this is gonna be the best performing computer I've ever owned.
Glad that you like the cooler. I take note of your remark for the spacers. We'll see what we can do.
Great to hear! It’s just a mm but that can make a big difference for somebody who has never installed a cooler before
You deserve more views. Great review. I have an old Arctic LF and it easily beats my new msi coreliquid 240R.
Thanks! Means a lot.
And yeah, there are a surprising amount of 240mm+ AIOs that are beaten by that little thing
@@STSYT CAN IT COOL A 12900K WITH SOME UNDERVOLTING AND DP LIMIT?
I already got the AIO a week ago but just found this video. You man are so funny and informative, deserved a sub!
you deserved to be followed! Great reviews, keep it up!
Much appreciated!
Bought this aio after watching this video so thank you for doing this review.
Nice! I'm sure you will be happy with it.
Great to come across an informative detailed review that seemed totally honest and to the point.
awesome videos, greatly helped with my purchasing decisions. earned a sub :D
Glad you like our content!
You had me at "Millenium Falcon". ^^
Nice!
At the end, I like the one finger air quotes 😂
I have a tinker itx build with a thermaltake core v1 and since I upgraded my 3900x to a 5950x in my main rig I thought i might put a 3900x in the itx case. Right now i have a 3600 with a wraith prism cooler and it works fine and for the gpu i have a reference 5700xt. I have a radeon vii on the shelf thinking about throwing it in just for the fun of it but i will have to change out the 500watt psu for a 750 i have. The Arctic Freezer 2 seems to be one of the best performing aio’s on the market and very simple to install. I was debating on a air cooler 150mm max height or a 120 aio. Ive actually seen a thermalright macho sbm cooler in a core v1 it shouldn’t fit but i have one of those I’m not using. I fill like the macho coolers are very underrated they cool good and are very quiet. I also picked up another Arctic fan they are really cheap and will cut another 2-3 degree’s off. And I’m glad it has the vrm fan because the wraith prism cooler helped cool the vrm’s and im scared vrm’s might get hotter with the 3900x on the cheaper msi b450i board. I think i will try to run it at 4ghz lowest voltage possible maybe 4.2 because thats what the 3600’s running i dont want to lose gaming performance. And it looks like i might be switching back to intel soon if those benchmarks are true.
Okay, that was a lot to go through^^
First off, congrats on the amount of hardware you have lying around, you're living the dream.
On the Thermalright Macho, until now I did not have the opportunity to test it, though I will definitely put it on my list (there are already a bunch of other Thermalright things on there).
About the 150mm air vs AIO, you could go with something like a U9S, but I don't believe this would cut it for a 3900x or 5950x.
Funnily enough, today I filmed the video where I build a new Test-Bench for CPU & AIO coolers, which uses a 3900x. So if don't forget, I can comment the results for both the LFII & U9S C.B once I'm done with benchmarking ^^
On the VRM's getting too hot, I wouldn't bother too much about that. As long as your Case isn't a shoe carton you'll be fine
Getting the 280mm version for my Meshlicious case :)
Nice, i’m sure you’ll enjoy it
Thanks for the review. How flexible are the cables? Do I need to put it in a case with a 60mm CPU? If you bend the cables, how much height is left? On the website they measure up to the rings but do not take into account the tubes.
Tube thickness would indeed impact thermal performance. In the form of thermal insulation between liquid and ambient case internal temp.
The difference would be extremely minimal and absolutely un-measurable with normal hardware. And don’t forget that this would go both sides. Say you’re case interior is cooler than the liquid, then you potentiallly loose.
I use the LFII-120 with my new system Z690/i5-13600KF/DDR5 with a Thermalright Contact Frame + Arctic MX-6 and with a second P12 fan in Push-Pull to queeze the max out its performance because my nice + loved now kind of Vintage Lian-Li case (w all Arctic P12+14 fans) I still use for 15y don't fit larger Rads...but this set up is more than capable dead cool + quiet.
Hello. I have an Arctic Freezer 34 eSports Duo and I'm considering to buy this AIO. Do you think there will be much difference between them? I can't buy 240/280 version of this AIO because of size, of my case.
Hi,
Sorry but until now I didn't test the Freezer 34, nor did I ever had one. Therefore I really don't want to make any assumptions here.
But I'm currently reviewing the Freezer 50, which should perform better than a Freezer 34. Once that reviews is done you can maybe interpret If or how much more you could get with the LF II.
@@STSYT you used different cpus in the testing, so it's hard to compare the results
@@asdolin42 Ups, yeah I just saw that the video didn't yet include the previousely covered coolers.
Newer videos will have a more extensive Benchmark list, but here's a short preview of my excel file:
3900x 4.36ghz @ 1.36vCore.
Freezer 50: 51°C
LF 120: 52°C
NH-D15: 48°C
All temps are above ambient and at full fan speed.
@@STSYT thanks for the info, the LF 120 performs better than I expected.
A better option for a 120mm AIO is taking a Corsair H60 radiator and swapping out the fan for a Phanteks T30 fan. I did that to mine on a mini-ITX build in a SilverStone SG05BB-Lite case, and it cooled my CPU by 8 degC vs the stock fan.
The Arctic Liquid Freezer II is a much better AIO than the Corsair H60. It has a thicker radiator, and is just engineered better in general. The fan on the Arctic is a low RPM/low noise fan. You'd get lower temps by putting the Phanteks T30 fan on this Arctic cooler.
@@zues287 a thicker radiator won't fit in the case I have but a "standard" thickness one does, and I had to do a little modification to the drive bay to make it work. The thicker radiator won't clear the drive cage but a thicker fan will. CPU temps don't go above 42 degC during normal usage or 54 degC while gaming.
@@l.i.archer5379 gotcha. Yeah, that's pretty good for a 120mm AIO.
I recenty bought this product based on your well informed video. So thank you as a start. But there is an issue I'm having with the mounting clips for 3000 series cpu. Whether I installed the cooler to offset or standart position the top clip is in contact(or extremely close) with the capacitors nearby(Asus Prime x570 motherboard). I sent an email about this to Arctic Support but they didn't return at all. So what to do about it? I'm constantly checking the capacitors if there's heat or something else. It seems to be fine but I have concerns about longevity or any potential harm to the motherboard or to the capacitors.
Hi,
Well I have a similar issue on an MSI board. Sometimes board manufacturers do not respect the official specs of the Socket which then ends up with a capacitor in the way.
In my case, my cooler mounting clip was barely touching the capacitor. It was touching it, but not in a way that it put any force onto it.
Try to check if it really touches it and if it adds some force onto the capacitor. The heat is absolutely not the issue, the problem is it could potentially break the capacitor off the motherboard. But as long as the cap is not being pushed, or just "barely" touched, there is no issue whatsoever.
10:00 How di you put two fans ? is there extra long screw that goes into all of that to secure the sandwich ?!
Hi, grate description! Do you think is it possible to install the radiator hole backwards (fan down)? Then you could cool the M.2 SDD a bit.
Yes, of course it's possible, but you have to consider the airflow. You are better off with intake from the front and a decent radiator on the m.2 ssd.
the offset position i think also helps to alingn the plate with hottets points on amd cpu, gamers nexus review. cheers from argentina
Just watched they're 420/Offset bracket video. It seems you're right. Must have missed that.
Thanks!
Cheers
@@STSYT just remember that when I was watching ur review but i dont remember if the off set position performs better xD
@@aessniper a tiny bit yes. when I installed it I immidiately thought about compatibility issues as I had a couple of Mobos with that issue. Seems to be solving two issues at once :p
@@STSYT your test was with normal mount or the offset position?
@@aessniper Normal. But according to Gamers Nexus’s video the difference was 1.7*C on a 3950x@200watt. I doubt that my mini 3700x with it’s quite 100w would even make it to 1*C :p
Arctic might be the budget Noctua of cooling.
Very much so, yes
Im quite curious, Is the ALF2 Refillable?
Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic?
What kind of mount for videocard
Sorry I don't get the question?
Can i use this for my i7 8700? How long is the lifespan?
Yeah sure.
Well you get 6 years of warranty with it. The CPU will be obsolete before the cooler dies
@@STSYT Thank you!!
Kind of bummed out because it doesn't come with a tube of paste anymore, just a packet.
The bigger ones do. I just finished the review of their 280 ARGB AIO, and there's a tube in there now.
Does it fit in Silverstone Sugo SG13B ?
Hi, is this enough to cool a 5800x is cooler master elite 130...?!? Thanks.
is it compatible with lga 1151
Yes
Could ist handle a i7 10700f?
...isn't the pump going to die pretty quickly, with how you orianted the radiator?
The air goes to the top of the radiator
@@ShiggyCompPt2
...then up the tubes, into the pump and making it overwork and die prematurely.
@Benjamin Zarkhin
That's not quite how it works.
If the radiator is installed in a way that the tubes are going in at the top, but the highest point of the rad is still higher than the pump, the air will stay trapped in the that little block where the tubes go in.
I get your argument, but if you were right, and the pump/flow would be strong enough to press the air downhill through the tubes again, why would it then do it when the rad is oriented tubes bottom? After all it's a loop and if the pump is strong enough to do it in one orientation, it would be in the other one too?
I have this cooler and I am ready to install it, but I have a question I'm hoping you or someone can help me with: On my motherboard I have CPU fan header and also CPU_Fan3_Pump. which should I plug this into? CPU Fan makes sense but I'm not sure, and I don't want to damage anything by mistake. Thanks!!
CPU fan header
hello i have a question and i would like to buy the artic freezer ii and equip it with transparent tubes i can see that the holders on the fitting are made of steel i expect a nasty surprise when i cut them off. can someone help me. thank you guys
Those holders are not metal. They seem to be some sort of thick plastic with some metallic paint on them. I would love to check for you, but this would involve me scratching it, which I don't really want ^^.
You should be able to take them off by heating them with a heat gun and pulling like a mad man.
However, I have no idea what's underneath them. Probably the same type of plastic valve you would see on soft-tube fittings.
If you are able to get the holders off, you should also be able to glue them back on. But I'm pretty sure they are not actually "holding" anything and more an esthetic thing. So my best guess would be to ply them off with heat, cut off the tubes, and fix the new tubes with very thin zip-ties in order to glue the rings back on.
Good luck with your project :P
@@STSYT thank you
11:31 OMG, you are so OVER THE TOP nit picking ! It is an AWESOME AIO cooler ! Who cares about looks ? I just want the best AFFORDABLE AIO !
Too bad they've discontinued it
Nr. 69 like ;)
Nice