Arctic Freezer i32 Semi Passive CPU Cooler Review @ Hardware Slave

I'm not really a fan of the Arctic brand of CPU coolers.  They cool pretty well and have a nice white and black color theme but the mounting hardware is way bad.  By the looks of it they have improved things a little.

Our first CPU cooler review of 2017 and it’s the Arctic Freezer i32. The Arctic Freezer i32 is based on the Arctic Freezer i30, but Arctic state the i32 has several feature improvements that boost performance and reduce noise. Arctic have been around the PC and system builder’s scene for a very long time. In fact, we use Arctic MX2 for all our CPU cooler reviews just because we have used Arctic thermal paste for a very long time and trust it. We know what it is capable of and we know they know their thermal paste.

The tower is a four heatpipe cooler design with stagared pipes for better cooling and a rather dense fin array.  Cooling should be pretty good with this configuration and might be why they call it Semi Passive or, that could just be marketing speak for "the fan spins so slow it might as well not be there"

Do check out the review and start on the second page if you want to see photos.

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