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The Cooler

The Core-Contact Freezer is a heat pipe cooler; it has four heat pipes going through the fins and the copper base to dissipate as much heat as possible. Heat pipes are very effective in guiding heat away from the core/base to the fins where it’s being cooled by the 120mm fan. You’ll also find heat pipes on higher end motherboards nowadays and on video cards. Heat pipes increases the cooling capacity of coolers, it also helps reduce the noise from fans, because it cools the same or better than a regular cooler with a fan spinning on higher rpm, thus making more noise.

Once you unpack the cooler, your basically left with a big piece of aluminum and copper weighing over 590grams without the fan. This shouldn’t be too much of a problem because the mounting system used with this cooler is very decent and easy to use. The base of this cooler is made out of copper and aluminum; it’s shaved down to a flat piece. The copper basically comes from the four heat pipes, which are flattened to make the surface smooth for direct contact with your processor.

The Core-Contact Freezer comes with a 120mm fan which spins at 2000rpm at max, or at 1000rpm on the lowest setting possible, using the fanbus. The fan goes attached to the aluminum fins of the cooler using two clips. It’s the same principle as with Noctua’s NH-C12P cooler. It holds the fan in place securely; Sunbeam doesn’t include any rubber type material to keep the vibrations to a little though. If you keep the fan at max speed than you can hear a slight buzzing noise coming from the cooler.

I don’t have an image of the length of the wires from the fanbus, but they’re pretty short. It’s also one of the bigger deals, other reviewers had with this cooler when they reviewed it. The wire is just a bit too short to really route it the way you want it to.