Reeven Arcziel 12 RC-1203 Test and Review

As I’ve said before, Reeven portfolio is made of five actual coolers:

1. Two models with vertical against the motherboard tower focused for desktop systems and they are: Chrono Guard RC-0902 (the small model) and Kelveros RC-1202 (the big model) which I already tested last week.
2. Two models with horizontal against the motherboard tower focused for desktop system and they are: Arcziel RC-0903 which I’ve already tested and Arcziel RC-1203 which I will test in this review.
3. One model with horizontal against the motherboard tower focused for HTPC systems: Vanxie RC-0801 which will be tested in the near future.

So, let’s see what Reeven Arcziel 12 RC-1203 really is…

The cooler was provided to me in a very small for the cooler dimensions card box in black/grey and yellow with tons of information for the cooler placed on all sides of the box.

So, let’s check what is inside this tiny package.

Ok, what do we have here… Again a small package with lots of contents. First thing to notice was the huge horizontal cooler with the 120mm fan mounted on it and after that the manual and the additional smaller box holding the addition accessories.

First things first, so let’s check the cooler itself.

The cooler offers standard (towards the motherboard) horizontal structure made of a heatsink with dimensions (W)140.5 x (H)126 x (D)131mm, weight of 557g and a standard fan with dimensions 120 x 120 x 25mm.

1. The structure of the heatsink is made of a really shiny base and well protected, made of cooper and 6 x Ø6mm cooper heat pipes transfering the heat to the aluminium fins for dispersing.

2. The second part of the cooler is the 120mm fan working at 500+/-250RPM ~ 1900RPM+/-10% (PWM) with airflow level range of 27.61 ~ 101.33CFM and noise level of 4.3 ~ 35.5dBA. The fan is made of plastic frame painted in black and a propeller in yellow with 11 blades. Installing the fan to the cooler is done via 4 plastic (very tight to stick) clips which are patented by Reeven.

Warning!!!

If you own that cooler be sure to read the manual first. It’s very important so you don’t break the clips or any other part of the cooler. I say this from personal experience when I did the first review for Reeven Arcziel RC-0903 I broke one very easily.

All parts of the cooler assembled look like this:

After I saw the cooler it was about time to check what’s inside the second smaller box accompanying the cooler. And yes, that is the box holding all of the needed accessories used for normal work of the cooler.

 

As you can see from the picture above this model is supplied with a lot of parts which provide many options.

1. Manual for mounting the cooler on Intel and AMD platforms
2. Thermal paste
3. Reeven advertising materials
4. Two metal brackets for installing on Intel systems with additional extenders
5. Two metal brackets for installing on AMD systems
6. Additional 4 fan clips and 4 small screws to attach any of the metal brackets to the radiator
7. А small wrench

According to the official technical details, the cooler can be mounted on:

1. Intel Socket: LGA  2011 / 1366 / 1156 / 1155 / 775
2. AMD Socket: FM1 / AM3+ / AM3 / AM2+ / AM2

To keep the tradition, before I move on to the test results, I would like to describe the system used for the test:

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 620 at standard frequency of 2611 MHz and overclocked at 3640 MHz (at 1.5V) per core for the tests.

Motherboard: GigaByte 790X-UD3P

Video card: Sapphire 5830 Extreme 1GB DDR5 256bit

Memory: 2 x 2GB Apacer 800 MHz

Hard drive: Kingston SSD SV100S264G

Case: Cooler Master HAF 932

Power supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro 600

Cooler: Reeven Arcziel 12 RC-1203

Thermal paste: Gelid GC-Supreme

Fan mounted on the cooler: Standard Reeven Arcziel 12 RC-1203 120mm fan with PWM power and regulations

The tests were conducted in a closed system with:

1. 230mm fan on the front panel putting fresh air in and spinning at about 700 rpm
2. 230mm fan on the side panel putting fresh air in and spinning at about 700 rpm
3. 230mm fan on the top panel taking hot air out and spinning at about 700 rpm.
4. Room temperature of about 27 degrees.

Testing procedure:

I will install Reeven Arcziel 12 RC-1203 and do tests at default frequency 2612 mHz at idle and load, then at overclocked frequency 3640MHz  at idle and load to check how the cooler performs.

So, let’s do some job mounting and testing the cooler:

The “big brother” offered a bit different mounting system which is absolutely the same as the mounting system of Reeven Kelveros RC1202 which I’ve tested before. I should say that installing both of the coolers is one of the hardest things I’ve done related with computers. After it took me about 15 mins the cooler was mounted and looked like this:

As you can see the cooler is covering the first two DIMM slots and still there can be used 4 memories without or with small heatsinks.

And this is how the cooler looks with fan installed.

After I installed the cooler, I did some tests and these are the results:

The results from the tests at default frequency 2611MHz are:

Idle:

Load:

The results from the tests at overclocked frequency 3640 MHz are:

Idle:

Load:

All of the test results have been summed up in the following charts:

And the fan speed during the tests:

Conclusions:

Performance: After I was done testing the Reeven Arcziel 12 RC-1203 all I can say is that:

Really nice cooler, not too big, not too small but can actually do the job. After I summed up the tests, it seems that it performed great on tests at standard frequency and very well on tests at overclocked frequency. Yes, it always can do better but with only 6 heatpipes it is still a very decent result. Still, let’s not forget that the ambient temperature was about 27 degrees.

Noise:

I cannot say that the fan used for cooling Reeven Arcziel 12 RC-1203 was silent but still compared with many other fans at this revolutions per minute it’s much quieter. As we can see from the results the fan did a great job cooling the CPU cooler. After all I wasn’t expecting silence when testing with overclocked CPU with more than 1GHz per core.

Appearance:

It’s very pleasent looking cooler made of cooper and aluminium parts with native colours and cooled by a fan with black/yellow colour scheme. Very nice combination that can look really good especially on some modding projects.

Again, as disadvantage I can point the lack of option to install a second fan and the lack of direct heatpipes contact with the processor.

According to my review, I’ve decided that Reeven Arcziel 12 RC-1203 deserves the following reward:

I thank Reeven for the samples!