[Hardware] One of these heatsinks is the new Arctic Freezer 50

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Although the market for All in One liquid cooling systems is booming, many users are reluctant about possible liquid leaks that could damage their PC. Therefore, they continue to search for air coolers that improve the performance of their predecessors and that, incidentally, give them capabilities more typical of these AIOs than of a high performance heatsink. One of these heatsinks is the new Arctic Freezer 50, a version that we have for analysis and that surely sounds like something to you.

Heatsinks, as is happening to AIOs now, are entering a technology maturation phase that represents a series of advances or minimal steps in the sector each year. There is innovation to be sure, but in terms of performance they move too slow for what AIOs do. Arctic comes to try to deny this through its new Freezer 50, a remodeled and adapted version of the Freezer 50 TR that we already had the pleasure of analyzing and that left us great sensations. Will this version for the most common sockets achieve the same performance seen in its brother?

If you saw that review of the Freeza 50 TR, this new Freeza 50 is going to be the game of looking for the 7 differences, which there are. In the first place and not being a surprise as such, we are faced with a heatsink of a gigantic size, with specific measurements of 149.5 mm x 148 mm x 166 mm.

As a good giant with two towers, it has a weight according to its size, since for the scale in no less than 1160 grams, a figure that surpasses rivals such as the Noctua NH-D15 or the Corsair A500, since it is lighter .

In addition, it adds compatibility with the standard LGA 1200 socket, as well as LGA 155X, 2066 and 2011-3, in addition to the AM4 socket of course. To cool such a generation of processors, it integrates 6 6mm heat pipes joined to 104 0.4mm thick fins.

These characteristics are complemented by a 120 mm fan on its front that is capable of rotating between 200 to 1800 RPM, while the central fan that integrates between the two towers increases its size to 140 mm with a very similar rotation: between 200 and 1700 RPM.

Both fans use the patented FDB technology of this German brand, also having 4-pin PWM connectors in both cases, where, as we will see later, they make use of a splitter.

Wanting to know more about it? Well let's get to it.

Unboxing and external analysis
Arctic Freezer 50 Review (1)

As expected, the box of this Arctic Freezer 50 arrives with a finish very similar to that of its brother for the AMD Threadripper platform. As expected, Arctic highlights a section where it has an advantage over its competitors, the A-RGB lighting system, which integrates a 3-pin 5-volt connector, being compatible with the main motherboard manufacturers: ASUS, GIGABYTE , MSI and ASRock.

Arctic Freezer 50 Review (2)

On its side we find the technical specifications named and a curious note, since by way of comparison Arctic has included a graphic where it duels its heatsink against an entire NH-D15, curiously with an i7-8700K at 4.8 GHz, precisely the CPU that we are going to test and under an overclock of 4.9 GHz in our case. It will be interesting to see if he can beat the quintessential rival by that grade they name.

Arctic Freezer 50 Review (3)

The next side shows the main virtues in a larger size, such as its dual tower system, its push-pull configuration with optimized fans, the A-RGB system and its easy assembly.