Arctic Freezer 36 A-RGB White CPU Cooler Review

How Much Does it Cost?

The Arctic Freezer 36 Series launches today and comes in five variants. There’s the stock Freezer 36, the Freezer 36 A-RGB Black, Freezer 36 Black, Freezer 36 A-RGB White and Freezer 36 CO. However, it’s when you see the prices that your jaw is going to hit the floor. The most affordable model is the Freezer 36 which has an MSRP of just £21.99, while the most expensive A-RGB (White) edition has an MSRP of £29.99. However, ARCTIC is celebrating its 23rd Anniversary with generous discounts, VERY generous, and this applies to ALL their new coolers, not just these air coolers (more details here). That means these new air coolers are launching at the much lower prices (red) below and will be held at those prices for nearly THREE MONTHS!

• Freezer 36 – £21.99 / £16.93
• Freezer 36 CO – £23.99 / £18.47
• Freezer 36 (Black) – £23.99 / £18.47
• Freezer 36 A-RGB (Black) – £28.99 / £22.32
• Freezer 36 A-RGB (White) – £29.99 / £23.09

You can check for these products on Amazon UK here.

Overview

Arctic is on a winning streak with their new coolers, and while those looking for flagship performance and enthusiast-level cooling for their high-end CPUs, then their new Freezer AIO CPU coolers blew us away recently. Plus, when their AIO coolers are massively discounted to disruptive levels for the next few months, it’s hard to consider any other brand of cooler right now.

The new air cooler I tested today may not be the most high-end performance, but it’s fair to say the temperatures I saw today are perfectly reasonable too. The cooler didn’t cause our CPU to throttle, the overall system performance was great, and they ran nice and quiet in both stock and overclocked loads, frankly, you couldn’t need much more from your air cooler.

What’s freaking bonkers, however, is the build quality, presentation and overall aesthetics of the product on offer. This is a cooler that I would have fully expected to cost £40 to £50 (at the full MSRP), and it just is a premium product that’s going to get a lot of love in today’s market. However, when I can get one right now for just £23.09 for a white ARGB cooler from a well-respected brand name… well, there’s literally no contest for that right now. Heck, you can get the base model for £16.93 too, and do you know what’s different? The looks, that’s it, the performance will still be just as competitive.

While this CPU cooler held up well enough on our i9-12900K, that really is a trial by fire, it’s notoriously one of the hottest CPUs on the market, so if it can keep this running well enough, anything with a lower TDP… which is most CPUs, should be a breeze. If you’re putting this on a mid-range Ryzen or i5, it’s going to be more than powerful enough and at such a competitive price, it’s going to be a deal that’s simply too good to ignore.