Arctic Cooling Freezer 11 LP Review

1. Introduction2. The Arctic Cooling Freezer 11 LP3. Installing the Cooler4. Testing Methodology5. Closing Thoughts6. View All Pages

Today we are using the Zotac H55-ITX motherboard with an Intel Core i5 655k. The Freezer 11 LP requires two mounting brackets to be fitted.

Unfortunately to get both of these fitted on the Zotac motherboard we had to remove the northbridge heatsink. I know from past experiences that these really aren't needed if you are running at reference voltages within a decent chassis. I did however use some thermal epoxy to adhere a smaller heatsink to the core.

This left me enough room to fit the cooler with the heatpipes on that side. Rotating the cooler wouldn't work as it would intrude on the ram slots or the PCIe slot for a graphics card installation.

Four screws are fitted through the plastic shroud into the brackets underneath, a simple procedure which only takes a few minutes. Negatively, I am not sure the push pin system would take a lot of abuse.

The cooler in this position allows the fitting of a graphics card, however it is tight and you wont be able to use any cards with a cooler on the reverse side of the PCB. We opted for a Sapphire HD5670 Ultimate Edition, which worked fine.

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