The Coolage Freezer Orb heatsink is designed for Intel Core
2 Duo processors, and as with most heatsinks seeking to banish the stock Intel heatsink
from the PC, it comes equipped with a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) fan. The 95mm
fan spins at speeds of 1000-2800RPM, so under most circumstances this
heatsink operates quietly enough to go unnoticed.
If you've been following
Frostytech for a while you've recognized that there are quite a
few other vendors with nearly identical heatsinks to the Freezer Orb we're
testing today. For the most part, this heatsink style manages good to average thermal
performance results. The heatsink is comprised of four copper heatpipes extending up from
a thin copper base, and many pure aluminum fins. A full
copper version of the FO-Z924AL is also in the works, according
to Coolage. The Freezer Orb F0-Z924AL heatsink
is nice and squat, with the business end of it measuring 42mm tall. The
aluminum fins aren't nickel plated, so heatpipe-to-aluminum joints are
swaged and not soldered. The four 6mm diameter heatpipes are soldered to
the copper base however.
Coolage's Freezer Orb F0-Z924AL heatsink is compatible with socket 775 Intel Pentium and Core
2 Duo CPUs. It retails for somewhere in the region of an estimated $45CDN ($40USD). The heatsink ships with a patch of
thermal compound pre-applied to its copper base.
Coolage Freezer Orb
Heatsink
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| HEATSINK
SPECSHEET |
| Manufacturer: Coolage |
| Model No.: Freezer Orb (F0-Z924AL) |
| Materials: Aluminum fins, copper heatpipes and base |
| Fan Mfg: Hilo CA9525FHS |
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Fan Spec: 1000-2800RPM, 12V, 0.33A |
| Fan Dim: 25x95x95mm |
| Heatsink Dim: 72x109x99mm |
| Weight: 440 grams |
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Includes: LGA775 mounting hardware,
thermal compound. |
Compatible with Sockets: LGA775 |
| Est. Pricing: $40USD ($45CDN /
£19GBP) | |
The fan mounts on posts spaced 80mm apart with little
plastic clips that grip the fan frame. The Coolage Freezer Orb heatsink ships with one rear motherboard LGA775 support plate. Since the heatsink uses spring tensioned screws, the supplied plate
must be installed prior to the heatsink itself. Translated - you
will need to remove the motherboard from the computer case first... which
can be a complicated process. The only upside to this kind
of mounting hardware is that the heatsink is held on very securely, making the
Coolage Freezer Orb potentially ideal for PCs which are transported to and
fro constantly.
The Coolage Freezer Orb
heatsink will be tested on FrostyTech's Intel LGA775 version of the Mk.II
synthetic thermal temperature test platform, and
compared against several reference LGA775 heatsinks. The whole test methodology is outlined in detail
here if you'd like to know what
equipment is used, and the parameters under which the tests are conducted. Now
let's move forward and take a closer look at this heatsink, its acoustic
characteristics, and of course its thermal performance!
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