Freezone preassembled TEC cooling unit?

[pdjblum]

Hey,

Anybody try the new, I think, Freezone TEC Cooling Unit that is selling over at FrozenCPU for 399?

It is being advertised on the hardocp home page. I couldn't find any reviews, but the company that makes it sure thinks it's great(ha, ha).

Any insights would be awesome.

Thanks

 

[DFI Daishi]

plenty of review of it out there, but i have yet to read one where that POS was able to keep things cooler than straight watercooling would.

the reviews are usually really positive, all the same, but i'd say that it's just reviewers pimping what they've been paid to pimp: there have been a number of cases where it performs almost 10C worse than watercooling.

http://www.extrememhz.com/freezone-p3.shtml

note that they compare this THING to a stock cooler. not aftermarket air. not kit watercooling. certainly not DIY watercooling.

people with the swiftech apex kit can realistically hope for less than 40C load overclocked on a s939 san diego, often as low as 36 load overclocked. what does this thing put up? 45C overclocked! wow.......that's some real performance!

what's that? it costs about $150US more? it must be REALLY l33t!

so, since it can only cool the CPU.......that must mean that it does a better job than watercooling, since watercooling can cool your GPU(s) and chipset as well. dedicated purpose hardware ALWAYS works better, right? of course it does!

pelt cooling is power hungry and inefficient. i do it myself, and i repeat this again and again: pelt cooling requires big everything. big dedicated 12V PSU, big pelt (200W is the minimum), big flow, big rads, big fans.

this cooler has none of those things. no dedicated PSU, dinky little pelt, tiny little rad, piddly little 80mm fan. it just plain sucks. this product is designed to dupe people who know little about cooling and nothing about pelts.

 

[digitalfreak]

Did you actually READ the review you linked? The put it up against a Koolance Aquian and Koolance PC3-720BK, and it beat them both. Dunno, maybe those two products suck, but it still out cooled them.

I've seen you slam this thing in a number of threads now. How about contacting CoolIT Systems and asking if they would send you a review unit? Provided you could be un-biased, we could end this debate once and for all.

 

[DFI Daishi]

Did you actually READ the review you linked? The put it up against a Koolance Aquian and Koolance PC3-720BK, and it beat them both. Dunno, maybe those two products suck, but it still out cooled them.

yes, i actually read the review........i'm honestly not terribly familiar with either of the koolance products noted, however i am familiar with what aftermarket air cooling can acchieve on a s939 platform.......and the CNPS9500 can usually keep things below 40C stock, often about 40 moderately overclocked.

in spite of you noting what this solution DOES outperform in this review, i'm again going to point out what it DOESN'T outperform: plenty of people over in watercooling get 36C load' while overclocked' using quality watercooling which can be purchased for substantially less money than this unit costs. an additional consideration is that the thermaltake bigwater, which costs fully half as much, also outperforms this unit under load.

http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&number=3&artpage=1074&articID=270

I've seen you slam this thing in a number of threads now. How about contacting CoolIT Systems and asking if they would send you a review unit? Provided you could be un-biased, we could end this debate once and for all.

i don't have the equpiment to conduct a review that i would be willing to put my name to. all other considerations aside, i'm not going to conduct a review without properly calibrated equipment regardless of what companies are and are not willing to send out hardware.