Arctic Freezer 36 CO - Single-Tower CPU Cooler with Push-Pull, Two Pressure-optimised 120 mm P Fans, Fluid Dynamic Bearing

Hands down the best tower cooler I've purchased with most effective cooling of any air cooler I have ever used. I am running i7 185Watt CPU when turbo running, this cooler is keeping it at 55C under full burn in test load with amazing times in test. The fans have screws that snap into heatsink module, quite simply the best setup I have seen on any cooler and I have worked with many. Amazing thermal performance and solid cooler. If you are cooling a 120-180 watt CPU this is the air cooler you want. *Intel Specific considerations. My install was a pain, not because of the cooler. I watched a video of someone doing intel install and they removed brackets all at once. **Problem, if you remove all four at once and your board is like mine the threaded back plate drops bellow the reach of the screws and you will have to remove your mainboard to access and secure the backplate to the Artic mount. Needless to say in my case this was pain on the Core V21 which only supports up to micro ATX size boards. I got it done but it took two hours to safely do what should have been a 5min job. Had to listen to some relaxing music when I found out what I was in for. I tried seeing if I could use a thin bamboo stick to push bracked but it was impossible. So ultimately had to take board and everything apart for the install. Why intel doesnt provide threads on the board like AMD I dont know, my AMD builds are so easy to add tower coolers to. So Intel CPU users beware, you either need to put something under the backplate to keep it from dropping, do it before board is installed or something like that. Anyways the Cooler and performance is bar none the best I have experienced in an air cooler. Very HQ, included thermal paste clearly works well with my temps.

J. Harmon · 2025-02-21 · via amazon

Cools very well even under full load, haven't seen it jump over 50°C. Installation was easy, particularly because of the snap in fan mounts. Noise level is low. I'll be switching from my go to cooler to this cooler from now on.

JW · 2025-09-24 · via amazon

Delivery was no surprises. Unit is well-made and good quality. It's a beast. Decided that the stock fan that came with my new CPU will be sufficient for the current general desktop build, so have not used it yet. Saving this for the next build which will run much hotter.

Dave In IL · 2025-06-05 · via amazon

I purchased this air cooler for my first PC build. I have an Intel I5-13600KF. Coupled with my six case fans this CPU cooler keeps my idle temperature at 29C. Not sure if that's really really good or not but I am happy with it! I will be buying another one of these for my second build.

codegeek · 2025-04-02 · via amazon

Works very well, quiet, clean look, comes with great artic fans which I'm a huge fan of, now have 6 Arctic fans and they outperform those rgb ones I got by a mile. All at a very good price. Highly recommend.

Brian · 2024-07-20 · via amazon

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