ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 - AIO CPU Cooler, 3 x 120 mm Water Cooling, 38 mm Radiator, PWM Pump, VRM Fan, AMD AM5/AM4, Intel LGA1851/1700 Contact Frame - Black

This thing impressed me a lot. I have a 9800x3d and a 5090 so the heat trapped inside my system was an issue. I had a be quiet dark rock pro 5 and thought it was good enough, but it wasnt. the temperature spikes were a problem especially while playing games. this lowered the clock speeds of my cpu and made games a bit unstable. cpu would reach 85c when playing games for more than an hour... with spike temperatures of 96c <which is the throttle temperature of the cpu.With the arctic liquid freezer 3 pro that changed. The performance of the cooler, at least on amd, surprised even me( i've been doing this for years). The aio is able to soak up the spike temperatures of the 9800x3d and now it barely touched 80c < and this is a spike temperature! very very impressed. The thing that supprised me the most was my gpu is now 3 degrees cooler, my vrm is 10 degrees cooler, and my ram is 5 degrees cooler all because there inst a giant air cooler in the way of everything. The whole system "feels" smoother to me. Might be placebo.The cooler itself is very very noisy! I was going to return it until i fiddled with the rpm of everything. turned the pump down to 2000rpm, the vrm fan to 1500rpm, and the fans down to 950rpm. This made it whisper quiet! MESS WITH THE PWM RPM OF EVERYTHING PLEASE.Totally happy with the way things turned out. Price was on 85 buck usd. Can't complain with that!

I was really impressed with this cooler. I usually don’t do many product reviews but this deserves one. I built a pc for my friend and went with this cooler and wish I’d have put it in my own pc that I built a few months ago. I used an msi mag cooler and this one blows it away. It comes with a contact frame that seems very sturdy and the radiator itself is quite a bit thicker than my msi. The fans seem quieter and it cools his chip more effectively than my msi. He is seeing 27c at idle and 50-60 when gaming with a 14700k at stock settings. The fans can run slower to get the same amount of cooling so it’s quieter. The hoses are long enough to mount the radiator in the front with the hoses coming out of the bottom which is really nice. Keep in mind that it is a little thicker so if you have a huge gpu you’ll want to check for adequate clearance in your case. He had plenty of room for a 5070 in the fractal define 7 compact. It’s a great value as it’s one of the least expensive 360mm aios. We didnt care about rgb so got the all black model. It looks just fine.

360mm AIO Pro non-rgbPush with pro fans and pull with Scythe Grand Tornados (counter rotating but flow same direction)Yeah it's beefy and most cases can't fit it in push/pull configuration (~88m thick and ~400mm long) but running pump at 40% under 70°c and 70% above vrm fan 20% and 70% (same temps) and fans on a curve starting at 10% and peaking at 70% for i5 13600k and 7900xtx idles at ~ 43°c and peak during maxed settings 1440p (monitor limit currently) on Ark Survival Ascended (notoriously unoptimized game) 72°cPeak on Cinebench R24 83°cAll with avg ambient temps between 27°c to 38°c (live in the desert near death valley and follow ambient minus 20 (in Fahrenheit) for how I run the AC to save on stress/ power consumption)Case is still being made so currently sitting externally on a case that only fits a 240mm radiator.Other fans are x5 P12 max (4 intake 1 exhaust) and x2 P8 (gpu and psu intakes)After taxes (and tariffs) and shipping (wasn't free when prior to purchasing it was) was ~ $140usdI wish it came with the adapter (that I bought separately) that allows you to run on stock ilm or with 3rd party contact frame (thermalright here)Also wish it came with a package (bundle) option with fan hub and more fans.(motherboard has cpu, cpu opt and chassis 1 and chassis 2 fan headers)Currently set up as pump to cpu, vrm to cpu opt, aio fans to chassis 1 and all others to chassis 2Looking at buying a newer/better motherboard that hopefully has more fan headers to simply set up and separate case fans (intake on one header and exhaust on another)

Under heavy load of SPT Tarkov, running a server with 30+ AI plus me playing in there my i7-13700KF was maxing out over 100°C to the point where a really heavy load would cause PC to reboot to save the CPU from burning out.With the Liquid Freezer III Pro my CPU would max out at 64°C! That's almost a 40°C (104°F) difference.My PC is actually quieter now because the CPU is not struggling to stay warm, based on the pictures 4 fans, I thought it would be super loud. By the way the separate fan over the CPU is not actually a fan, it's purely for looks (and maybe function?). It does not spin.Built very well, sturdy thick cables. Comes with AMD and Intel mounts/screws, plus single or split connections.Sadly, it does not come with instructions. It took maybe 45 minutes to install in my case. I did watch their video, which was super helpful. I guess it's not exactly rocket science, but instructions would definitely help everyone.For $80-90 this thing is a steal, it can easily cost $150-200