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Even so, my first impression is the Freezer 64 Pro is it is a beast and promises to be a superb cooler. </p> <p>The massive100 mm or so fan is the first thing that I noticed. There is no real cage for the fan which allows air to be pulled from the top and removes any possible vortexes that may occur because of the cage. This fan also has no fan guard, but because of the low RPMs of the fan, this is really not an issue. The only thing I worry about, is if the fan goes, how to find a replacement. Oh well, the six year warranty should cover that. The fan is an ATX connection with a sleeve over the power wires and does not have an RPM controller. Most decent motherboards today will actually control the RPMs of the fan based on a temperature setting you specify. This motherboard technology is making the fan controller a thing of the past. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/arcticcooling_freezerpro/05.jpg"><img src="atruereview/arcticcooling_freezerpro/05th.jpg" alt="Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO" title="Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO" width="229" height="250" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>Located at the bottom of the cooler is the copper heatsink. It is protected by a piece of plastic during shipping. On the bottom of the heatsink is the Arctic Cooling's silver paste, another reason to use the plastic. A three prong clip is include for securing the Freezer Pro to a CPU socket, if your socket has three prongs. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/arcticcooling_freezerpro/06.jpg"><img src="atruereview/arcticcooling_freezerpro/06th.jpg" alt="Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO" title="Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO" width="250" height="136" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font></p> <p align="left">Three heatpipes span out from the heatsink and into the fins. The top where the heatpipes extrude from the fins is very clean. The aluminum fins make this heatsink light. I was impressed how light the heatsink was for its size. In fact, the 42 fins are very thin. Notice at the bottom how the fins angle down. This will provide more cooling for components around your CPU like those capacitors. </p> <p align="left">A heatpipe, for those that don't know, normally contains a fluid inside. As the fluid in the heatsink heats up, it is vaporized. This vapor travels to the top of the heatsink where it is dissipated to the fins. The vapor having now been cooled becomes a liquid and falls back down to the heatsink. This passive process allows for a large cooling surface area to dissipate heat, and to move the heat away from the CPU. Arctic Cooling's Freezer Pro actually contains a sintered powder instead of a liquid. This allows it to mount vertically or horizontally inside a case. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/arcticcooling_freezerpro/07.jpg"><img src="atruereview/arcticcooling_freezerpro/07th.jpg" alt="Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO" title="Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO" width="250" height="247" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font></p> <p>To the left of the heatsink fins is the lock down lever. 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