ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 280 A-RGB - Multi-compatible all-in-one CPU AIO water cooler with A-RGB, efficient PWM-controlled pump, fan speed: 200-1900 RPM, LGA1700 compatible - Black

This is a chonky AIO, so heads up, that radiator is THICK! Check your clearance before you buy. The plus side, the cooling on these things is next level, there's a reason these things top charts (the 360mm ones especially). I mean, the liquid freezer 3 has come out now, with a redesigned VRM cooling fan and CPU cooling plate, but I have the 2, and it works a treat. Combined with curve optimizer of -30mv, a small reduction in total platform power (95 watts), I got her Ryzen 7 7700x down from the mid 90s degrees C, to under 70 degrees C (68.3 degrees C for anybody wondering) running Cinebench R23 for 10 minutes, multicore, very little loss of performance (about 100 points), but MUCH quieter operation.Oh, the other thing to watch out for with these, those tubes are very fat, and fairly stiff. I had to use some velcro straps to pull them together a bit, as they basically wanted to go live up inside of the fan blades of the top exhaust fans, it been an mATX case. ;) Everything about this cooler is extra.

You don't need me to tell you that this performs amazingly - there are plenty of reviews out there for this. It's a joy to install, takes a few minutes. I replaced my 4 year old Antec 240mm AIO with this 280MM one and temps have lowered 10 degrees across the board - even at idle it now sits at 29 degrees where before it was 38-40. Temps max out at 65 degrees in gaming, mid 70's before. Even a cinebench loop doesn't faze it, keeping it in the low 70s on a 10 minute run.I used the offset mount for X3D, works a treat. The only reason to buy any other AIO is aesthetics - LCD screens and infinity mirrors etc on the pump. I'd rather have the better performance of this Arctic AIO. It's also pretty much silent. With my 7900XT locked to 100fps in far cry 6 it only uses 180-220 watts, fans barely spin up on it. Whole PC is virtually silent even whilst gaming. Thumbs up!

top notch cooler..silent dose its job

Bought the cooler when it became pretty obvious that my i9 12900ks wasn't being sufficiently cooled by my air cooler. When I was playing Starfield it wasn't uncommon for my CPU temps to start reaching towards 100c. When installing the cooler I was surprised to find that, even though I have a pretty roomy case, the radiator / fan unit is so thick, it was hitting my ram chips. So instead I opted to put the radiator and fans towards the front of my case instead. This worked perfectly. From this point onwards installation was relatively easy. After I started my computer I was absolutely amazed to see that on idle, just on my windows desktop my CPU temps were now in the teens, I swear I have never seen CPU Core temp idling as 12c in my life until today. When I played starfield the temps seemed to fluctuate around 30c-36c which is a huge improvement. Very happy with this cooler. It seems fairly quiet for what its providing in performance too. Just be mindful of how much space is in your case.

Very good cooler for my Ryzen 7 5800 x3d but hard to fit in case due to the radiator thickness as well as can end up interfering with some GPUsAlso should have it incompatible rgb with certain motherboards motlre readily advertisedCan be hard to mount due to the weight and size dependent on the space and how Saturday the cases metal is

I upgraded to 5700x and my Deepcool Neptwin couldn't cope with it. So I replaced it with Thermalright Peerless Assassin II. While the Peerless Assassin II was able to handle the heat load it did at a cost of sounding like a jet engine. So I started looking into liquid cooling and decided on Liquid Freezer II 280 ARGB.It was a bit tricky to install it in a Purebase 500dx but that's only because I went for 280 which pushing the limits of the case in terms of space. If I had gone for 240 I could have had it top mounted with my eyes closed.On the first days there was faint noise of water trickling but this faded away quickly. After running Cinebench R23 for 10 minutes at 25 degrees ambient the average CPU temp is around 75 degrees. This is almost the same as what I had with the air cooler. The difference is LF II does it at a much lower noise level. So it actually outperforms the air cooler by quite a lot.Now the downside (which Arctic actually managed to turn into a W). After about 4 months, the VRM fan started making a clicking noise after running at high at load (gaming). I googled and found that while this is not a common fault to warrant a recall it's not super rare either. I contacted Arctic and asked if there was a way to resolve this without an RMA. They responded on the next working day and said they would send a replacement VRM fan and thermal paste after I sent proof of purchase. I received the VRM fan and enough MX-5 for one application in the same week. Weirdly, the VRM fan noise disappeared the day before I received it. I still replaced it. To me this is good customer service.Overall, I would highly recommend Liquid Freezer II as a cooler and Arctic as a brand for their customer support.

AVOIDI ordered two versions of this fan, the non-RGB version and the RGB version.I first ordered the non-RGB version and it came with two of the 1700 processor upgrade sets however did not include the basic installation tools. This therefore meant I did not have the correct screws and could not install it.I returned this and ordered the RGB version instead. The fans on this unit did not work. I detatched the fans from the radiator to isolate them, tried them on multiple sockets and they did not work. Multiple other fans I tried did work so this is a manufacturing fault.I contacted the Arctics customer support team over 3 days ago and still have not heard back.Plenty of other good brands out there. Don't risk it with this.

Dont waste your money on top end kit this does the job better than them