My wife was fed up with the noise made by the stock cooler that came with my Intel i7 8900 3.2Ghz processor (socket LGA 1151), so I purchased the Arctic 34 (grey) to replace it. This comes with all the bits you need including thermal paste. You have to access both over and and underneath the motherboard to fit this, the installation is a little fiddly but not massively over-complicated and the digital manual was fine for me.
This thing is tall, be sure your PC case has a CPU cooler max height of 157mm or greater, my case actually states this as the absolute max and it just about fits. It seems no wider than the stock cooler so the surrounding sockets (RAM, PCI-E etc.) are still accessible as before.
My processor has Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 65 watts, and this seems to be no problem, this can handle up to 150w, apparently.
It runs very quietly, I can barely hear it, if at all. When running CPU intense tasks, like games, it remains quiet. I tried this with playing Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on 'epic' set graphics, there was not a sound and the CPU temperature reached a max of 65 degrees celsius only. The CPU idle temperature is around 30 degrees C.
The cooler is heavier (605 g) than the stock cooler that came with the processor, but it's worth it. £20 is a decent price, too.
| Brand | ARCTIC |
|---|---|
| Item model number | ACFRE00052A |
| Manufacturer | ARCTIC |
| Series | Freezer 34 |
| Colour | Grey |
| Voltage | 12 Volts |
| Wattage | 3600 kilowatt hours |
| Are Batteries Included | No |
| Item Weight | 605 g |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
