My new i7 Cooler

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Having had enough of the stock cooler on my i7 3770 after having washed the dust out for the umpteenth time I finally found a cooler which would, I thought, fit inside my small case.

I didn't want to overclock my i7 but with all 8 cores rendering videos the stock cooler just couldn't cut it and anything over 60C gets me worried.

The main problem I have had trying to find one is that most of the ones I looked at simply wouldn't fit or wouldn't cool enough.

However the one I now have does both!

It is THIS one, the Arctic Freezer 13 which claims a Max power dispersion of 200 Watt!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ARCTIC-Fre...=1499859047&sr=1-1&keywords=arctic+freezer+13

Although it took a lot longer than the few seconds to fit that the ad claimed ( you only get a sheet of paper with drawings on it) it wasn't too bad.

And the difference is brilliant!

In order to keep the temp low I''ve underclocked it slightly at 3.2Ghz instead of 3.4Ghz and with the fan turned to the lowest setting on my M/B (an AsRock B75 Pro3-M) and the IES ( which drops the core voltage a bit) turned on I can now get a very good 48-50C with an ambient room temp of 20C and all 8 cores rendering.

I wondered whether the M/B would increase because the fan no longer blows on the M/B but the M/B temp is also lower.

And the noise levels are also lower than the stock.

I did have to remove the large 120mm fan on the side of my case because there wasn't enough clearance for the Freezer 13 to fit, but that was the only thing which I had to change.

You can actually orient the cooler in 4 different directions and in my case the air is pushed through it towards the rear exhaust fan.

I'm not sure whether there would be any advantage in turning it and the exhaust fan round so that the outside air was then pushed towards the fan on the cooler since then the air from the cooler would blow over the memory.

I may try that when I re-fit everything into a slightly larger case I have but until them I am very happy with it and if anyone is looking for a small cooler which is a vast improvement over the stock cooler I can certainly recommend this one.
 
I'd keep the Arctic blowing to the rear and the rear fan as an exhaust, otherwise you're going to be pulling cold air in and no direct route to exhaust it, meaning other components in the system will get warmer. DDR3 doesn't really need much airflow so don't worry about cooling that, especially as your system is not overclocked. Been running a Freezer 13 on my file/media box for the last 5 years, passive when it was a celeron and even on low it keeps an i5 happy at 40'c in a case with little airflow.

If anything I'd want the system overclocked, get the rendering done faster. 60'C is perfectly safe for an i7.
 
Steeps said:
I'd keep the Arctic blowing to the rear and the rear fan as an exhaust, otherwise you're going to be pulling cold air in and no direct route to exhaust it, meaning other components in the system will get warmer. DDR3 doesn't really need much airflow so don't worry about cooling that, especially as your system is not overclocked. Been running a Freezer 13 on my file/media box for the last 5 years, passive when it was a celeron and even on low it keeps an i5 happy at 40'c in a case with little airflow.

If anything I'd want the system overclocked, get the rendering done faster. 60'C is perfectly safe for an i7.
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Reversing it also means you are pushing warm air over the ram rather than straight out of the case which long term is just asking for trouble.
FWIW i use an old scythe infinity 120x120mm heathsink with a noctua fan pushing air through it and out of the back, works like a charm and took about 15 degrees or so off my core temps from the off. Need to really look at a better sink for my server though as that does run warm even though its only a q6600
 
Steeps said:
I'd keep the Arctic blowing to the rear and the rear fan as an exhaust, otherwise you're going to be pulling cold air in and no direct route to exhaust it, meaning other components in the system will get warmer. DDR3 doesn't really need much airflow so don't worry about cooling that, especially as your system is not overclocked. Been running a Freezer 13 on my file/media box for the last 5 years, passive when it was a celeron and even on low it keeps an i5 happy at 40'c in a case with little airflow.

If anything I'd want the system overclocked, get the rendering done faster. 60'C is perfectly safe for an i7.
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Well I can run 12 VMs, all rendering, by capping the CPUs at 40% - they complete in about 90 mins which means over 8 hours of rendering in 1 1/2 hours.

That's running the i7 at 3.4Ghz with the temp still down at about 47-50C.

So I'm quite happy with that - I just load up the VMs and let them run.
 
I put in a massive water cooling system but never overclocked the CPU because I'm too lazy to learn how to do it. CPU runs at room temperature lol
 
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