Id-Cooling Frozn A410 Black CPU Cooler Review

Arrow Lake’s appearance in our specs table is a mere distraction since its new LGA uses the same coolers as Intel’s earlier 12th through 14th-gen Core processors: Instead, the most surprising “spec” we get out of Id-Cooling’s Frozn A410 Black is its price! As Id-Cooling has not yet updated its own specifications list to include the new socket, today’s review will mostly focus on whether this cheap a cooler can even keep up with the heat output of our high-end test platform’s renowned CPU.

The Frozn A410 range of coolers starts with the baseline SE and adds features such as ARGB and/or a second fan as the price goes up. The “Black” model we received includes two sets of fan clips that are painted black to match the name, and its single 2000RPM-rated fan is about 10% faster than that of the baseline SE. Also included are mounting brackets for both Intel and AMD mainstream sockets, a tube of thermal paste, an Intel mainstream LGA socket support plate, mounting screws for AMD motherboards, mounting nuts for the Intel support plate, and three sets of spacers to cover the two support Intel and one AMD installation heights.

After pressing six direct-contact copper heat pipes into the A410 heat sink’s aluminum base accurately enough to leave minimal voids, Id Cooling machines the resulting surface smoothly enough to create a somewhat reflective surface. This results in a base that’s flat and smooth enough to fit the top of the CPU with minimal reliance on thermal compound.

A mounting bracket that spans the top of the base is affixed from underneath using two screws, and the ends of that bracket are fitted with spring-loaded T-nuts.

Cross brackets for both the Intel and AMD installation kits have threaded studs onto which the above-mentioned T-nuts can engage. Cross brackets replace the AMD Socket AM5 factory hook brackets in the installation shown below, using special screws to engage the motherboard’s original socket support plate, plus a set of plastic spacers to raise the cooler’s T-nut studs to the correct height.

Intel installations use the socket support plate included with the cooler, it’s threaded studs sticking through the board’s factory mounting holes from behind to provide four spots to add similar plastics spacers, brackets and nuts. As the mounting kit supports three different CPU package heights, each of the spacers is marked with the socket it’s designed to support.

After adding thermal paste to the top of our CPU, the cooler fits as shown below with its T-nuts pulling the cooler’s cross bracket toward the brackets of the mounting kit, compressing its base tightly against the CPU’s integrated heat spreader. Notice that the heat sink is offset around 5mm to the left (its rear): Id Cooling does this to reduce the front-mounted fan’s forward overhang, thereby improving memory module (DIMM) clearance.

Clipping the fan to the front of the A410 heat sink completes the Frozn A410 Black installation. Our inner memory slot is empty, but had we filled all four slots with super-tall, extra-thick DIMMs, we’d still have around 5mm of clearance remaining.

We’re comparing our entire 2023 through 2024 collection of CPU air coolers to the low-cost Frozn A410 Black to see how well a cooler this cheap can perform in comparison to an entire range of samples.

System Configuration
Case	Thermaltake Ceres 500 TG ARGB
CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X: 12 cores/ 24 threads, 64MB L3 Cache O/C to 5.00 GHz at 1.25 V Core
Motherboard	ASRock B650E PG Riptide WiFi, BIOS 1.18
RAM	Sabrent Rocket SB-DR5U-32GX2 64GB DDR5-4800
System Drive	HP SSD FX900 M.2 1TB NVMe SSD

Test Results

The most important thing a CPU cooler can do is cool the CPU, but most motherboards are designed to get at least a little airflow over its CPU voltage regulator from the cooler’s fans (even if those fans serve a radiator in the same case). The Frozn A410 Black’s single stack of heatsink fins and single fan leave it behind more complex arrangements, but it still kept our system cool enough to prevent throttling at our custom settings.

A narrow loss in CPU cooling is somewhat offset by the single fan’s low noise level, raising the inexpensive A410 Black to fourth place in a comparison of cooling to noise.

Finally, the low price puts the A410 Black in its own class for value, as most of its competitors cost over twice as much. Only ID Cooling’s own A620 Pro SE comes within 20% of the cheaper cooler’s value score.

Barely powerful enough to cool a monster Ryzen 9 processor, adequacy feels like luxury at the Frozn A410 Black’s low price.

Id-Cooling Frozn A410 Black (EAN: 6931393305622)
Pros:	Cons:
Supremely inexpensive Powerful enough to cool a high-end CPU Light and compact for easier installation	“Barely” powerful enough to cool a high-end CPU
The Verdict:
We didn’t expect much performance from a cooler this cheap, but we still got enough to keep our high-end system running. That’s what makes the A410 Black an award-winning value.