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Review: LGA 775 CPU Cooler Mega Test

by Matt Davey on 1 June 2007, 14:45

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Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - Introduction and Packaging

Introduction

The Freezer 7 Pro, from Arctic Cooling, has enjoyed great success in the third-party cooler market and for various reasons. First and foremost, though, is cost. It's pitched at a very keen price-point.

But it also had a head start over its competitors. Only one of the coolers we're looking at here is older in terms of its design - the Intel Stock Cooler.

Packaging

If you look at it from a numbers perspective, you could almost say the Freezer 7 Pro is a 'stack 'em high, sell 'em cheap' kind of product.

Looking at the packaging on the Freezer 7 Pro only enforces this point. Where others are making their packaging to sell the product, Arctic Cooling continues with its no-frills approach.

The simple cardboard box features a single product shot and a list of various specifications and manufacturing information. Inside, the simplicity continues with a plain plastic shell encasing the cooler. This cooler-hugging shell means there's no wasted space inside the box.



The Freezer 7 Pro is the only cooler in our round up that comes with the thermal paste applied to the base as standard, so no separate paste is included. What is provide, though, for those who like that sort of thing, is a case sticker, along with the obligatory instructions sheet.