You’ll need one hand to hold the backplate in place, another to hold the cooler in place, and another to install the screws. It can be annoying to install the block alone because even if the backplate is now held by the stand off's.

That’s not enough of a change, so there’s room to reduce noise level without much loss of overall performance.

Best you can do is to leave everything but Curve Optimizer alone, and even then you risk instabilities. The Liquid Freezer II has a couple deep points in the coldplate, but is overall closer to the smooth end than the unlevel end. The box doesn't come with instructions but they have a youtube channel where you can find some "basic" videos (albeit without showing you the screws being used at each step. One of the key features for Arctic’s Liquid Freezer II AIO line-up has been the block mounted VRM fan. Liquid coolers afford longer periods of low thermals for bursty workloads, which can also help with soaking fan speed changes.

The Arctic Liquid Freezer results were benched 6 times each, with and without the VRM fan, and with 2 sets of re-mounts. This allows a larger amount of water to be used in the circuit and significantly increases the cooling surface area. If software ARGB support is important to you, make sure to select the model which includes the ARGB Controller.The Liquid Freezer II 360, features 3x powerful 120mm Arctic P12 fans to give you outstanding heat transfer driven by high static pressure and outstanding performance making this all in one liquid water cooler perfect for hobbyists or enthusiasts that are looking for superior performance at lower noise levels.

This puts it about equal in thermal performance to the NZXT Kraken X62 and X72, which run around 51-53dBA, or a perceived noise increase to the human ear of about 2x. There was one slight dent on the side of the radiator but it's only cosmetic and can't be seen once installed. The Liquid Freezer II is the successor to the well-respected Liquid Freezer water cooler from ARCTIC.Tänk även på att kylaren är väldigt tjock gämfört med standard 52mm denna är totalt 63mm tjock med fläktar. With the second profile my 5800X rarely hits 72C, only thing I hear from my case is the air been pushed trough from all my other fans, I can hear that little fan if I open it and put my ear close to it though. I'm not certain how the generation 8 asetek pumps will perform but it looks like they actually attempted to improve their design so I'll be curious how it performs to more proprietary pumps like what Arctic or EK has. For the Liquid Freezer II Series, they have used there experience in CPU water cooling to develop a completely new compact water cooling pump.