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The Arctic Cooling Freezer 11 LP is supplied in a simple plastic shell casing which is moulded to the shape of the cooler. This is a standardised shipping style for Arctic Cooling and while we appreciate it probably looks good in a store, we wonder if it would survive abuse from couriers. To open the package you just pop the tabs, which is a nice touch.
Arctic Cooling supply mounting brackets for both Intel platforms as well as all necessary mounting equipment.
The cooler itself is a straightforward design with a 92mm fan blowing down onto the aluminum fins underneath. It uses two copper heatpipes to transfer heat from the CPU.
The Freezer 11 LP is a 54mm profile design which means it will fit into most media cases currently available on the market. MX2 thermal paste is preapplied onto the base which saves the end user some time fiddling about with tubes of paste. We would have hoped they could have preapplied the latest MX4 paste, however processors cooled by a low profile solution are rarely (if ever) overclocked so it should be more than enough.
The Freezer 11 Low Profile above (right) next to the Thermaltake Slim X3. It is a slightly larger design and the heatpipes are thicker.
Looks ideal for a media build as you say. pricing is all important in this sector. they are always quite cheap. the Freezer 13 for instance is 17 quid. id expect this to be 13.
Nice temperature results, and I love that Lian Li chassis too, its beautiful. missed that review last month.
Thank you for the review. Just ordered, fingers crossed it will fit my board. Saw mixed reviews on Newegg about fitment for ITX, although when reading between the lines it may have been user errors.
How did you get on with this cooler, just ordered it for my Mini build
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/634674fbdb3699c51f269b235758705bf83c905fbfcf02469d43ddd479e04a9e.jpg I ended up having a payment issue and the price changed before updating. Went with the Rajintek “Zelos” which I’m quite happy with. It’s really nice and has quite a better style than the artic cooler. I have an extremely small build but had just enough room to clear the DIMMs, no need for low pro ram.
I replied above. Sorry for the delay
Cheers for the reply, I ordered it before and sadly it fouled either a RAM slot or the PCI-e so it was no good, used it in another PC and found it was decent though.
Sadly I have an Asrock Z77E-ITX board which is honest to god, the worst designed board in the world, so trying a Cryorig C7 this time
no it´s not. some gigabyte itx are worse.