The water block itself comes with thermal grease already on it, but we did away with that with some acetone and applied Arctic Silver 5. The block had a mirror finish on it, which is always a nice touch.

To install the device, we needed to remove the stock AMD mounting bracket, but it allowed us to keep the back plate. The CPU block is mounted on standoffs that screw into the stock back plate. Now, if you do this smoothly, you won’t have to remove the motherboard. However, it is really easy to push the back plate out of the holes and then have to remove the motherboard to install it again. Once the standoffs are installed, it comes time to put on the water block. This process is kind of irritating, but understandably so. You have to push the provided wire retainers onto the block and then screw them into the standoffs. Sounds easy, but the tension on the wires before you even start screwing is so bad that it takes quite an effort to even start threading the screws. It probably wouldn’t have killed CoolIT to make the threads longer. That way there’d be more screwing, but a lot less headache. Once the water block is solidly installed, it’s time to mount the cooler. The cooler itself is designed to mount on any 92mm fan mount, or a 120mm fan mount with the included adapter. This puts it in line with the majority of other all-in-one cooling kits. Our CM stacker has two 120mm fan mounts, so we had plenty of room. Once that has been screwed in, we need to provide it with power.


The Freezone has an external power adapter that converts a Molex plug into a proprietary 4-pin plug that powers the TECs. The Freezone also has two separate 3-pin fan connectors branching off from it. One is meant to power the pump, and the other is meant to power the 92mm fan. CoolIt suggests plugging the fan connector into their power adapter, which has 3 mounts for these types of fans. The power adapter comes with an adhesive side and can be mounted inside your case anywhere.