Arctic Freezer 36 A-RGB White CPU Cooler Review
Peter Donnell / 3 months ago
Stock Temperatures
OK, so right off the bat, the temperatures are pretty high, but not far from what I expected, given this is a smaller tower cooler, it is a smaller tower than the be quiet! Dark Rock Pro Elite, so again, hardly surprising it’s a little warmed. This may look bad, but it’s really not, it’s just our charts are littered with high-end liquid coolers. Anything under 110c for the i9 is within operating targets.
With my optimal settings, which locked the CPU with a 4.9 GHz all P-Core 4 GHz E-Core at 1.3v, performance goes up, but most importantly, temperatures dropped a staggering 16c, giving us a peak of just 80c, which is well within our targets, and going to be much more usable long-term.
The acoustics are great, with just 36 dbA at idle and 39 at load, which is certainly on the quieter side of our charts.
And at our optimised settings, the acoustics were largely the same, and very quiet overall.
