**A Deep Dive into the 2950X with Frozen and Other Coolers**

The 2950X is a powerful CPU that demands high-quality cooling solutions to keep it at optimal performance levels. In this article, we'll be examining how different coolers perform with the 2950X, including the popular Frozen CPU cooler.

**Choosing the Right Cooler for the 2950X**

When selecting a cooler for the 2950X, it's essential to consider the socket type and mounting requirements. The 2950X has a Tr4 socket mounting system, but some coolers can also be used with an M4 socket. In our case, we opted for the Frozen CPU cooler, which is designed to work seamlessly with both socket types.

**Installation and Accessories**

The Frozen CPU cooler comes with all the necessary accessories and controls to ensure smooth installation and performance. The cooler features a four-pin header for the PWM fan and two separate three-pin RGB cables for the RGB illumination. We plugged these directly into the board via a three-pin header, taking full advantage of the cooling solution's capabilities.

**Cooling Performance**

To evaluate the 2950X coolers, we conducted tests at different fan speeds, including stop clock speeds. The results showed that all CPU coolers performed well with the 2950X, with the exception of Frozen, which struggled to keep up at high fan speeds.

At stock clock speeds, the 2950X was able to reach a stable frequency of around 3.6-3.7 GHz at 1.15 volts. However, when overclocked, the cooler's performance began to degrade. The Animax Lick Tech 240 took the lead in terms of cooling performance, able to keep the 16-core chip below 50 degrees C.

**Noise Levels**

When it comes to noise levels, there is a significant variance between coolers. The Nocturia 14s with a single fan proved to be the quietest solution, followed closely by the Wraith Ripper from Coolermaster. However, the Animax Lick Tech 240 and Frozen CPU cooler suffered from increased noise levels at higher fan speeds.

**Recommendations**

Based on our testing, we recommend using the Nocturia 14s with a single fan or opting for the Wraith Ripper from Coolermaster if you prioritize cooling performance. However, if acoustics are a concern, consider swapping the radiator fans to Knock-to's NFA 12 by 25S, which can provide a quieter operation.

**Conclusion**

The 2950X is an impressive CPU that demands high-quality cooling solutions to keep it at optimal performance levels. While Frozen CPU cooler showed promise in some areas, its limitations became apparent when pushed to extreme fan speeds. The Animax Lick Tech 240 and Wraith Ripper from Coolermaster emerged as top performers in terms of cooling performance. As always, we appreciate your feedback and look forward to hearing about your own experiences with the 2950X.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso back at Computex I visited the deep core gamma storm booth and saw this guy the frozen CPU cooler for thread Ripper as second generation thread Ripper CPUs were rolled out at that event we saw a few beefed up coolers at booths here and there but this one definitely caught my eye and the reason for that is because it goes for that sort of gamer aesthetic and I'm not really sure if it was serious enough to call a 16 core 24 core even a 32 core thread Ripper CPU so we will be comparing frozen against a few other popular federer per cooling options to see how this thing actually stacks up and pricing is roughly equal to the other options that we're comparing it against today currently going on Amazon us for $89 oddly enough that position is it's slightly more expensive than the Noctua u 14s as all tr4 CPU coolers should we've got that full die cold plate at the bottom with fries and using nickel plated copper and there's six heat pipes that make their way through both ends of that aluminium fin stack we're only working with a single 120 millimeter fan here and one thing I'm not totally sure about is the frame covering roughly 25% of the fans service area this most likely introduces turbulence and increase in noise levels and likely a reduction in cooling performance but we'll take a look at the numbers in just a minute otherwise the cooler is built pretty well and feels very sold with an all aluminium trim so that's definitely appreciated the actual purpose of that frame is for a P illumination of course with two lighting elements on either side and there's additional RGB lining at the top of the cooler which will be visible in your system when the cooler is installed the lighting is compatible with a soos MSI as rock and gigabytes RGB lighting software as well if you do care to sync it up and program the lighting on your board otherwise there's an included RGB controller in the Box one other strong point for phrasing is when it comes to compatibility the CPU cooler height is measured at 165 millimetres so it is one of the taller CPU coolers on the stack but you're not going to have any issues when it comes to clearance of your memory modules all your top PCI Express slot seeing as the cooler isn't that or wide now let's take a look at some of the competition first up is call masters beast of a caller the wraith ripper simply put this thing is an absolute tank and is the largest cpu core that will be testing today with a cool height of 160 millimeters it is 5 millimeters shorter than the Frison it is much longer and wider the design here is too thin stack separated by a 120 millimeter fan in the middle and actually sandwich in the fan into the heatsink this way reduced noise pretty significantly as we'll see soon in our testing the entire heatsink is also black which some of you may prefer and there's also some RGB lighting on the casing around the frame in the middle the 7 heat pipes here also so an additional one pipe of a frozen and honestly looking at this thing it's hard to think that a little frozen could even compete next up is naktu as you 14s tr4 which is the only cpu cooler here to utilize 140 millimeter fans the rest use 120 the fan is the 140 millimeter nfa 15 pwm and you can technically add a second one here to the heatsink but I'd strongly advise against that and I'll show you what I mean in the noise results in just a minute overall I've had some pretty good results with this call in the past so it'll be great to see how this caller stacks up against the other options one issues that I do have with this cooler though is that it overhangs the top PCI Express slot on the x3 99 motherboard that I'm using here the zenith extreme and this was even after using the adjustments on the mounting bracket so if you're thinking of using this one definitely do a bit of research on compatibility before buying otherwise we've got six heat pipes here also and CPU cooler height is identical to frozen at 165 millimetres okay and lastly we have a very popular a i/o especially designed for thread Ripper with larger cold plate the Animax leak tech 240 do you know that a 280 millimeter version is available also but I don't have that one here for testing at this point whenever I test an X 399 board on this channel this is always the cord that I end up reaching for mounting is super easy and I always have a solid experience with this thing so again it'll be very interesting to see how this stacks up to the air called options so the cpu that we're using today is the thread Rupert 2950 X the 16 call 32 thread CPU in AMD's second generation thread reverse stack now with the 32 coil model suffering from large memory latencies in certain workloads this will probably be the chip that most people actually reach for and although I would have loved to test that 32 call 2990 WX for these coolers I think the 2950 axe serves as a more realistic use case anyway all right so let's finally talk about installation and then get to those results now installation here is slightly more involved compared to the other coolers which have the mounting brackets pre-installed and ready to go for that tr4 socket mounting but since frozen can also be used with the a m4 socket you're required to use an extra mounting bracket between the cooler and the socket no problems here though as it was super simple just an extra step that you will need to take there's a four pin header for the pwm fan and then two separate three pin RGB cables for the RGB illumination I plugged these directly into the board via a three pin header there's plenty of accessories and controls included though but I'm personally more interested in the cooling performance which speaking of let's finally look at how that 2950 acts did at stop clock speeds so here all CPU coolers actually did pretty well with the 29 50 X sitting at around three point six to 3.7 gigahertz at 1.15 volts a typical clock speed and voltage when plugging that chip into a decent X through 99 motherboard here frozen is at the bottom of the stack though with the result of sixty degrees C at a fan speed of 1750 rpm but closing in on cooler masters wraith river at 2150 the other coolers are slightly more capable here though with raithra per finishing up at 51 degrees C knocked or did quite well here also but the Animax lick tech 240 does take the lead able to cool the 16 core chip below 50 degrees C with the 29 50 X overclocked though it does take a turn for the worst for frozen at 1750 rpm it wasn't able to adequately cool the thread Ripper chip to stop it from a thermally throttling but at 2150 rpm it does get the job done but just keep in mind here that all results reflect an ambient room temperature of 20 degrees C so for warmer setups or possibly within a case frozen isn't looking so good for an overclock 2950 X the knock to au 14s with to 140 millimeter fans was able to beat the wraith Ripper from coolermaster though but again the lick tech 240 does prove to be the most effective cooling solution looking at noise levels now and there really is quite a variance here between the quietest and the loudest result the quietest calling solution here was the nocturia 14s with a single fan and that's to be expected given knock to his reputation when it comes to outstanding acoustics but also because the larger fan doesn't need to spin as fast only at 1200 rpm here we then take a significant 5 DBA jump up to Wraith Ripper at 2,000 rpm roughly the same as the you 14s with two fans although my experience running the two NFA 15 fans was not so great here at all resulting in an off buzzing sound possibly created by turbulence I'll let you guys take a look Verizon isn't too bad at 1750 rpm but does suffer at 2150 my recommendations here are just to stick with 1750 rpm if possible since that 6 DB a jump is quite significant the a IO was the roundest in the stock though given that we have a 2 120 millimeter fans are full blast here but do note that being a liquid cooler it does have the capacity to run at lower rpms and you could also swap those radiator fans to knock to as nfa 12 by 25 s to fix those otherwise loud fans from Animax so frozen is it a meme or is it actually not bad well with the thread Ripper 29 50 X at stock clock speeds I was actually pretty surprised how close this thing came to the core master race Ripper at 2150 rpm and even 1750 or was able to call that ship not too bad at all if you insist on running your threader per CPU with an overclock though frozen unfortunately is not going to cut it if you're looking for the best solution possible I'd be looking at Animax is leaked a 240 or to 80 millimeter a i/o and if acoustics are an issue there I'd highly recommend switching to knock tours nfa 12 by 25 you can find a review of those in the top right hand corner for air calling and both the Wraith river and the knock - au 14s performed quite similarly with the nocturnal caller providing a much better performance in terms of noise levels so guys let me know what you think of deep pools new fries and thread Ripper core and if you think is thing did a little bit better than you expected also if you are running a thread Ripper build at the moment I'm really interested to know what color you're running in your build let me know in the comment section down below as always guys a huge thanks for watching subscribe if you haven't already and I will see you all in the next oneso back at Computex I visited the deep core gamma storm booth and saw this guy the frozen CPU cooler for thread Ripper as second generation thread Ripper CPUs were rolled out at that event we saw a few beefed up coolers at booths here and there but this one definitely caught my eye and the reason for that is because it goes for that sort of gamer aesthetic and I'm not really sure if it was serious enough to call a 16 core 24 core even a 32 core thread Ripper CPU so we will be comparing frozen against a few other popular federer per cooling options to see how this thing actually stacks up and pricing is roughly equal to the other options that we're comparing it against today currently going on Amazon us for $89 oddly enough that position is it's slightly more expensive than the Noctua u 14s as all tr4 CPU coolers should we've got that full die cold plate at the bottom with fries and using nickel plated copper and there's six heat pipes that make their way through both ends of that aluminium fin stack we're only working with a single 120 millimeter fan here and one thing I'm not totally sure about is the frame covering roughly 25% of the fans service area this most likely introduces turbulence and increase in noise levels and likely a reduction in cooling performance but we'll take a look at the numbers in just a minute otherwise the cooler is built pretty well and feels very sold with an all aluminium trim so that's definitely appreciated the actual purpose of that frame is for a P illumination of course with two lighting elements on either side and there's additional RGB lining at the top of the cooler which will be visible in your system when the cooler is installed the lighting is compatible with a soos MSI as rock and gigabytes RGB lighting software as well if you do care to sync it up and program the lighting on your board otherwise there's an included RGB controller in the Box one other strong point for phrasing is when it comes to compatibility the CPU cooler height is measured at 165 millimetres so it is one of the taller CPU coolers on the stack but you're not going to have any issues when it comes to clearance of your memory modules all your top PCI Express slot seeing as the cooler isn't that or wide now let's take a look at some of the competition first up is call masters beast of a caller the wraith ripper simply put this thing is an absolute tank and is the largest cpu core that will be testing today with a cool height of 160 millimeters it is 5 millimeters shorter than the Frison it is much longer and wider the design here is too thin stack separated by a 120 millimeter fan in the middle and actually sandwich in the fan into the heatsink this way reduced noise pretty significantly as we'll see soon in our testing the entire heatsink is also black which some of you may prefer and there's also some RGB lighting on the casing around the frame in the middle the 7 heat pipes here also so an additional one pipe of a frozen and honestly looking at this thing it's hard to think that a little frozen could even compete next up is naktu as you 14s tr4 which is the only cpu cooler here to utilize 140 millimeter fans the rest use 120 the fan is the 140 millimeter nfa 15 pwm and you can technically add a second one here to the heatsink but I'd strongly advise against that and I'll show you what I mean in the noise results in just a minute overall I've had some pretty good results with this call in the past so it'll be great to see how this caller stacks up against the other options one issues that I do have with this cooler though is that it overhangs the top PCI Express slot on the x3 99 motherboard that I'm using here the zenith extreme and this was even after using the adjustments on the mounting bracket so if you're thinking of using this one definitely do a bit of research on compatibility before buying otherwise we've got six heat pipes here also and CPU cooler height is identical to frozen at 165 millimetres okay and lastly we have a very popular a i/o especially designed for thread Ripper with larger cold plate the Animax leak tech 240 do you know that a 280 millimeter version is available also but I don't have that one here for testing at this point whenever I test an X 399 board on this channel this is always the cord that I end up reaching for mounting is super easy and I always have a solid experience with this thing so again it'll be very interesting to see how this stacks up to the air called options so the cpu that we're using today is the thread Rupert 2950 X the 16 call 32 thread CPU in AMD's second generation thread reverse stack now with the 32 coil model suffering from large memory latencies in certain workloads this will probably be the chip that most people actually reach for and although I would have loved to test that 32 call 2990 WX for these coolers I think the 2950 axe serves as a more realistic use case anyway all right so let's finally talk about installation and then get to those results now installation here is slightly more involved compared to the other coolers which have the mounting brackets pre-installed and ready to go for that tr4 socket mounting but since frozen can also be used with the a m4 socket you're required to use an extra mounting bracket between the cooler and the socket no problems here though as it was super simple just an extra step that you will need to take there's a four pin header for the pwm fan and then two separate three pin RGB cables for the RGB illumination I plugged these directly into the board via a three pin header there's plenty of accessories and controls included though but I'm personally more interested in the cooling performance which speaking of let's finally look at how that 2950 acts did at stop clock speeds so here all CPU coolers actually did pretty well with the 29 50 X sitting at around three point six to 3.7 gigahertz at 1.15 volts a typical clock speed and voltage when plugging that chip into a decent X through 99 motherboard here frozen is at the bottom of the stack though with the result of sixty degrees C at a fan speed of 1750 rpm but closing in on cooler masters wraith river at 2150 the other coolers are slightly more capable here though with raithra per finishing up at 51 degrees C knocked or did quite well here also but the Animax lick tech 240 does take the lead able to cool the 16 core chip below 50 degrees C with the 29 50 X overclocked though it does take a turn for the worst for frozen at 1750 rpm it wasn't able to adequately cool the thread Ripper chip to stop it from a thermally throttling but at 2150 rpm it does get the job done but just keep in mind here that all results reflect an ambient room temperature of 20 degrees C so for warmer setups or possibly within a case frozen isn't looking so good for an overclock 2950 X the knock to au 14s with to 140 millimeter fans was able to beat the wraith Ripper from coolermaster though but again the lick tech 240 does prove to be the most effective cooling solution looking at noise levels now and there really is quite a variance here between the quietest and the loudest result the quietest calling solution here was the nocturia 14s with a single fan and that's to be expected given knock to his reputation when it comes to outstanding acoustics but also because the larger fan doesn't need to spin as fast only at 1200 rpm here we then take a significant 5 DBA jump up to Wraith Ripper at 2,000 rpm roughly the same as the you 14s with two fans although my experience running the two NFA 15 fans was not so great here at all resulting in an off buzzing sound possibly created by turbulence I'll let you guys take a look Verizon isn't too bad at 1750 rpm but does suffer at 2150 my recommendations here are just to stick with 1750 rpm if possible since that 6 DB a jump is quite significant the a IO was the roundest in the stock though given that we have a 2 120 millimeter fans are full blast here but do note that being a liquid cooler it does have the capacity to run at lower rpms and you could also swap those radiator fans to knock to as nfa 12 by 25 s to fix those otherwise loud fans from Animax so frozen is it a meme or is it actually not bad well with the thread Ripper 29 50 X at stock clock speeds I was actually pretty surprised how close this thing came to the core master race Ripper at 2150 rpm and even 1750 or was able to call that ship not too bad at all if you insist on running your threader per CPU with an overclock though frozen unfortunately is not going to cut it if you're looking for the best solution possible I'd be looking at Animax is leaked a 240 or to 80 millimeter a i/o and if acoustics are an issue there I'd highly recommend switching to knock tours nfa 12 by 25 you can find a review of those in the top right hand corner for air calling and both the Wraith river and the knock - au 14s performed quite similarly with the nocturnal caller providing a much better performance in terms of noise levels so guys let me know what you think of deep pools new fries and thread Ripper core and if you think is thing did a little bit better than you expected also if you are running a thread Ripper build at the moment I'm really interested to know what color you're running in your build let me know in the comment section down below as always guys a huge thanks for watching subscribe if you haven't already and I will see you all in the next one\n"