The New Best: Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360 & 280 CPU Cooler Review & Benchmarks

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Sequential numbering seems pretty difficult these days. Impressed with Arctic.

"It's the best, but it could be even better" is a great place to be for a product launch.

I had one of their coolers with the gasket issue. A few months after replacing the gasket the cold plate was fouled with whatever material was still in the system. I contacted their tech support provided my coolers serial number and they sent me a new cooler. The new cooler has been working flawlessly since install. The entire process went much more smoothly than I anticipated. The Arctic Liquid Freezer series will be at the top of my list the next time I upgrade.

I am a huge fan of Arctic as a company. I was also one of the people affected by the fouling problem; I requested a repair kit through their automated system, and it arrived a few days later; I did the replacement myself, and everything seemed fine. My cooler (the LFII 360) then died, seemingly randomly, about six months later. Turns out the pump motor had died; I don't think it was a gunk issue, since I had noticed no performance degradation - it just bit the dust one day. I put a support request in, mentioning the self-replaced gasket, and asked if I could send it in for warranty repairs (as they had offered an extended warranty window for any units that had the faulty gasket replaced). They didn't even ask for me to return the unit I already had - they just sent me a new one, no questions asked (well, they had to ask for my shipping address, I suppose). I'll be going to them for all of my CPU cooling needs for the foreseeable future; it was just such a nice customer service experience.

Thanks for the review, guys! 🥶😄

New drinking game. Every time Steve says Hemi-Anechoic, do a shot.

Bloody hell, you're really putting that anechoic chamber to use, and IMO you've struck the perfect balance between quantitative & qualitative analysis without spending too long overanalyising the results. Yeah, it's nerdy as heck to be awestruck over frequency plots and those high-quality recordings of the VRM fans, but I don't care - this is some exceptional science going on here.

Thanks Steve and Mike for the review. Glad to see the good performance results though a bit disappointed that you faced issues with the assembly on AM5. we are now looking into it to phase in improvements in future production. We'll look into the contact pressure as well because as your test showed, we have some improvements possible here too.

The price and performance Arctic offers really shows how much other companies are charging you for having their name on the box.

SEQUENTIAL NUMBERING!? How the hell did such a small company figure this out while so many titans have continued to fail?! Finally, the pinnacle of naming schemes has been achieved! Nothing can stop humanity now; WE ARE THE NEW GODS!

Man when Steve casually says "they are starting to develop a track record of support" and "we can recommend it" it's like the equivalent of other youtube reviewers standing on a table yelling it's the greatest product ever.

tyvm for taking montech up for your sponsors these guys are delivering some serious punch for good prices i love my montech sky two case!

Please review the EK-Nucleus AIO next, it performs really well and it's very straight forward without gimmicks.

THANK GOD! I was so sad that they'd announce this and then us have to wait months for reviews. This is 100% the best way to launch a product; immediately send it to GN for review

The Arctic Liquid Freezer series seems to be hitting it out of the park once again. Impressive performance for the price!

Bought the liquid freezer II last year because of GN's review and I have been so happy with it, glad to see them knocking it out of the park again

this video is incredible for many reasons not least of which is its outstanding to see all of GN's new high-tech testing tools showcased. i mean holy moly, the chamber, the new studio, the 3D monitoring machine, GN studio looks more like NASA every day

Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware of the LF2 issue and service kit. I just checked and my cooler is in the affected batch so a service kit is now on its way!

Wow. You guys are very detail oriented, sound chamber, laser scanner. Even the sidebar progress lines when you're showing a graph which lets us know to pause if we're not done looking. Thanks for all the help!