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so I was perusing Amazon the other day like I do and I came across this little cooler here the Arctic freezer 33 TR which is intended for risin thread Ripper CPUs it's a dinky little cooler it's only $45 it has a single 120 millimeter fan and a single small heatsink tower and I'm looking at this thing going hop how is this little cooler are gonna cool a monstrous CPU like in 1950 X which is 180 watt TDP chip apparently the max TDP that this is rated for is 200 watts so I don't know I just had to buy it and test it out today and I think it's pretty relevant because second gen thread Ripper is right around the corner I think more people are gonna be looking into maybe low cost or here air-cooled solutions for those chips and they're probably gonna wonder if this is any good so it's also interesting because the reviews on this are pretty positive on Amazon four to five stars 55 reviews but upon further inspection you'll notice that most of those reviews are talking not about the freezer 33 TR model but the eSports one which is similar to this one but is only intended for mainstream Intel and horizon sockets so out of those 55 reviews maybe only four or five of those are talking about this particular model being used with a thread Ripper CPU because this cooler also supports a m4 and out of those four or five reviews it's pretty much split down the middle half of them are saying yeah this cooler does what it is intended for it's getting the job done the other half are saying the complete opposite so we're gonna get to the bottom of it today it should be pretty interesting to see which way it falls we're gonna be testing it along the 1950 X of course with an asus rog zenith extreme the last time i use this board it didn't work i'm not exactly sure what postcode area was giving us can't remember but maybe we can fix it with a bios flashback or something like that we have a gtx 1070 founders edition a gigabyte extreme 1200 watt power supply we'll probably be using some configuration of g.skill transy memory but yeah with that said let's go ahead and put our little test bed together man my fingers are awesome hey how about a beer okay let's change scenes before this gets old the Thermaltake tuff power grand RGB power supplies ship 80 plus gold rated with a fully modular design zero rpm mode and a quiet RGB fan that syncs with compatible motherboards and devices take your power delivery to the next level with the tough power grant series you can click the link below for more info all right so really quick sorry for the crappy built-in audio of my blog camera here it's just the easiest way for me to show you what's happening right now so the zenith board is still giving me issues I just flashed the BIOS and we are now getting a different code its code 70 and it says updating ec1 code alright and that actually spits out this screen bios is updating do not shut down Beliveau voix and it's been like this for about half an hour I've actually tried this several times over I tried clearing the CMOS again you know cutting the power supply power and do it doing all the basic troubleshooting steps and still we're stuck at this screen so I'm gonna show up this board for now and actually head to Micro Center before they close to pick up a different X 399 board because this is really the only x 399 board that I have on hand at the moment that's free the only other one that I have is actually at home in my workstation computer there so yeah let's head to micro Center and get a different board so we can get this video movie oh hey look at that it's an ass rock x3 99 Tai Chi and just like that this video got $400 more expensive you guys should really consider buying some merch alright we are finally in the desktop and it feels oh so good I have Rison master open here as well as hardware monitor just so we can verify that we are getting the correct temperature readings and it's looking like they're lining up here we're getting around 40 ish in the 40s range so it's not the greatest idol temps I've ever seen but it's not terrible either it definitely gives us the green light to go ahead and put a load on her giggity alright so this is a thread Ripper test after all so I'm gonna start off by rendering out a 4k file in Adobe Premiere Pro actually we're using media encoder to do our rendering I've got rising master right here you can see the temperature and yeah we're actually giving this cooler the benefit of the doubt by having it on an open air test bed I would reckon that CPU temps would be at a disadvantage had we put all this hardware inside of an enclosed chassis so I guess it's got that going for it but let's go ahead and fire this guy up and see what happens all right the temps are rising 57 58 you can see I have not overclock the CPU it's probably a given we're starting off with stock frequencies here turbo Eng up to 3.7 so we are down to the last 20 seconds of our render here and we just hit 62 C that's our max temperature so far that I've seen throughout this whole render so that's actually pretty good I think after this test I'm gonna go into the BIOS and do some overclocking all right we're back in the desktop overclocked to 4 gigahertz on all 16 cores what do you guys think is gonna happen when we run the same render test now let's find out Wow immediately spiked up to 58 59 and we're pretty much where we were after a good two to three minutes for the first render so we're definitely warmer we've already passed the 60 to see mark and climbing I think we're just about to hit 70 see I can feel it ooh okay so 70 see and we're about halfway through our render now a little over halfway done I'm actually really impressed with this cooler I mean even in a case I think this cooler would be pretty adequate it's looking like it could do the job especially I mean obviously you're gonna need a case that has healthy airflow going through it you don't want to put this in like a you know a suffocated case with poor front intake or something like that but if you have a well ventilated chassis you can probably achieve very close to these temperatures the other nice thing is that the coolers fan is really quiet I mean I can definitely hear it from two three feet away but I mean this test build isn't even in a case so stick it inside of a chassis with all the other fan noise it's gonna get drowned out completely and a retro test is done just like that I guess I could put a gaming load on here but I don't really see the point honestly most people buying thread ripper are using it for workstation applications like Adobe Premiere Pro and geez this is this cooler surprisingly to my surprise anyway passed with flying colors so I think our work here is pretty much done let's close this up with some final words I don't know guys I'm still kind of scratching my head over this thing I just it's hard to believe that a $45.00 very basic looking air cooler can handle all the heat coming off of a 16 core overclocked high-end desktop CPU maybe all of you saw this coming and I'm the only one who didn't but it just seems pretty impressive and surprising to me and the other thing is that we're here at the office long after operating hours they've shut the they shut the AC off like 3-4 hours ago and it's gone from 68 Fahrenheit to 77 so and that was the temperature that this was tested in normally all my tests are done during work hours for the most part at around 68 69 C or Fahrenheit but not this one and still it was able to pump out some pretty decent performance all things considered the other thing is that the quality of the cooler I didn't speak much about the cooler itself the quality is actually pretty good fan and heatsink seemed seem well built the mounting mechanism is smart and and very simple straightforward without much fuss the brackets though that the little dinky metal brackets that mount the fan to the heatsink are pretty weak and if you use them a couple times they start to wear out and get a little loose but apart from that pretty pretty decent stuff here guys we might be sitting on a hidden gem that I kind of just helped not be so hidden perhaps you guys let me know though if you have any experience with the freezer 33t are cooling a thread Ripper CPU let me know how it went in the comments I'm very curious to hear your feedback every users experience is different so you might have tried the same thing here that I did today and it sucked but let us know in the comments that's the only way we can really get a better idea of how this thing performs as a whole so that's all I got for now guys thanks so much for tuning in toss like on the video if you enjoyed it and get subscribed for more tech videos coming at you really soon you can also check me out on floatplane for 3 bucks a month if you want to watch all my videos a week early without ads I'll put a link for that in the video description as always thank you guys so much for tuning in 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