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The Liquid Freezer II's fiber-reinforced 45 cm tubing allows for installation even in large cases and effectively prevents coolant evaporation, so you don't have to worry about refilling your compact water cooling system. How can the pump react to a pwm signal? I can always attach a fan to the pump signal chain, but now I’m afraid I will only have control of the fan alone and not the pump, unless the pump just executes whatever the pwm sends to the fans Edit: and yes, similar to OP, I am OCD and need to have every fan in my case match (noctua for me). Should be available in Europe -- I'm pretty sure Arctic is a European company -- based in Germany maybe?
Small fans have the reputation of being particularly loud and not very durable; that’s why we set out to develop a quiet, sturdy diagonal fan especially for the Liquid Freezer II. We’re 100% convinced that this 40 mm fan is just as durable as our other case fans. If the fan doesn’t live up to our claims, our customer service team will send you a replacement free of charge (without you having to replace the entire unit). The VRM fan clearly does something, and temperature improvements will follow the more even FPM on either side of the VRM heatsink, but we also want to be clear that a top-mounted radiator would also benefit the VRM. This is something we simulate in our test setup. VRM Thermals This one in the review looks really nice as well. I wish more manufacturers would stop making their products look like action figure toys. I run a similar setup as some here. I have a cooler master H500M and run an Arctic liquid freezer II 360 v2 with 6 Noctua NF-A12x25 fans in a pull/push configuration. Right now I have the pump lead from the arctic freezer going to the AIO 4 pin port on my Asus Maximus XII Formula board. I then have each of the 2 sets of 3 radiator fans strung together with a couple noctua fan splitters to plug each set of 3 into the cpu fan and cpu opt fan (NOT into the Arctic Freezer II’s integrated harness).A selection of motherboards interferes with the cooler. Below is a list of motherboards which have been confirmed to have this problem. Steve from GamersNexus explains you the mistakes to avoid while assembling your water cooling AIO in your PC case. In addition to testing Cinebench without power limits enforced, we’ll also be showing results when the CPU’s power consumption is limited to a more reasonable 200W. We’ll also show results at 125W for those who prefer whisper-quiet cooling, at the cost of some performance. For both of these results, we’ll show traditional delta over ambient temperature results. I am glad someone was listening to what a few of us here commented on the last AIO reviewed about how Arctic's LF 2 coolers were the best overall by far. So does this mean that the pump and vrm fan are always running at 100% and the only thing that’s being controlled by pwm are the fans?
This shows the delta in height, measured in microns, from a calibrated 0-point. The A500’s box plot shows the largest range, illustrating the chaotic levelness that hurt its performance, while the Deepcool Assassin III and original Wraith coolers have some of the best levelness. The Arctic Liquid Freezer II averaged about 8-10 microns depth from the 0-point, with minimums and maximums at 2 microns and 48 microns. The Liquid Freezer II has a couple deep points in the coldplate, but is overall closer to the smooth end than the unlevel end. Installation & Mounting Not a big deal since laying the board flat on the table bypasses it, but this could be even easier if Arctic refined the solution with cap screws. On the installation front, buyers should also be aware of the short cables for the fans. They can be connected to the splitter cable (which is sleeved alongside the tubes), but we prefer connecting our fans directly to the motherboard to exercise more control over the fans. This is easily solved with some 4-pin-to-4-pin extension cables. Conclusion This seems like a top contender for the best 280mm AIO. Great job on Arctic's side of things. The only thing left to test is whether or not there will be more or less horror stories with them, as well as, how many are DOA and the longevity of each cooler.Er ... this thing costs less than half the price of a h100 pro ... and cools within 0.1 degree (by the data that you yourself linked) ... not to mention PWMs @ over 50% cooler with this AIO.
Some mechanical interference with surrounding components may appear. The fan will not be controllable by PWM. The V1 has three fan connectors. Two of them have three pins, with the third pin missing, so only pins 1, 2 and 4 are there. The third connector--the one closest to the radiator, has all four pins. I separated the fans from the pump and connected the radiator fans to cpu fans and the cable coming from the LFII into the pump header. I am not getting any pump RPM value. I thought it may be because it could be a 3-pin “fan” but even still I should have RPM value. I have used that header with other pwm fans in the past and it read RPM no problem. I was wondering how good the fans would be as case fans over my silent wings 3 since they are so quiet. Fans optimized for high static pressure. There are lots of great high static pressure optimized fans out there and lots of different preferences. It’s like asking a car forums their favorite motor oil, you will get a lot of different responses...Time to move to VRM thermals. Before putting this chart up, a few important points: First, this is all relative, so our measurement points aren’t designed to test the motherboard, but rather to test the cooling capabilities of the CPU cooler on top of it. We’re taking VRM measurements at points that will work better for testing cooler impact, since we don’t care about comparative VRM performance from one board to the next. Second, we’ll show the numbers with the radiator mounted to the side of the bench. That’s how we tested all the liquid coolers so far, as it is more similar to a top-mounted radiator in a case. This means there’s always airflow over the VRM heatsink in all the CLC tests, whereas testing it on the table, away from the VRM, would paint a picture of Arctic’s VRM fan having a higher relative impact since you’d be taking away all cooling otherwise. We have these numbers too, but let’s focus on 3950X OC numbers at 35dBA radiator fan speed first, with the Arctic VRM fan at 100%. The test is also tough to standardize since every motherboard will have different heatsinks and positioning, so although you can mostly extrapolate out a hierarchy, it’s not perfectly comparable to every configuration. And again, please also remember that case configuration is the single most impacting to VRM thermal performance outside of the VRM design and cooling solution. What we’re saying is that this test will create an objective hierarchy, but that in all reality, a couple degrees here-and-there from the cooler won’t really matter much when considering the VRM is unlikely to melt itself in the majority of instances. Modern AMD & Intel CPUs are designed to run fairly hot without any problems– up to 95 degrees Celsius for AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs, and up to 100 degrees C for Intel’s Core i9-13900K. Similar behavior has been standard in laptops for years due to cooling limitations in cramped chassis. We also offer to do the rework for you. To have the gasket and copper plate replaced, you can send your Liquid Freezer II to our service teams in Germany or the USA. i9-14900K (QS), RTX 3090 FE, Gskill 32GB DDR5 8000, Asus Maximus Z790 Apex Encore, Fractal Design Define 7 XL
Hydro Series H100i v2, and couldn't be happier! This cooler is everything the Corsair was not...... FAReasier to install, MUCH quieter, and keeps my Ryzen 2700X 7-10 degrees cooler across the board then the Corsair. B) it will be difficult to run a push/pull due to the sheer size of the radiator depending on your case. I BARELY got it all to fit. Good fans, like PSUs and cases can last you through multiple builds though so not a horrible investment. The next is that this AIO actually concerns itself with cooling the motherboard VRMs and not just the CPU. Unlike most, the Liquid Freezer II 360 comes with a secondary (or to be accurate quaternary) cooling fan that actively cools your motherboard’s VRM heatsink(s). Yes, this is not the first to do so, but it is very rare. The vast, vast majority of AIOs do not. I have one of their older 120 models (push pull) on an R7 1700 (non-x, but OCd to 3.8)- cools extremely well and is super quiet - I only hear it when 3D rendering (100% load for more than a few minutes).Installed this about 2 months ago. Quietest AIO I ever used all why keeping temps lower than my Kraken X72.
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