Arctic Breeze Pro and Breeze Mobile Review

👤by Vinh Thai  Comments 📅04-10-10

Packaging and Overall Look: Arctic Breeze Pro (Part 1)

The Arctic Breeze Pro comes in a plastic clamshell that is very easy to open. The box is secured by a few plastic tabs and, thankfully, these are not heat-sealed.

The product itself can be easily seen with this type of packaging.

The front of the packaging

The packaging has a paper sheet that lists things such as features and specifications. An ample amount of information is given, and most of this can be read off Arctic’s website. Once again, Arctic has done a very good job on the packaging.

The back of the packaging

The Arctic Breeze Pro is basically a frameless 92 mm fan with a flexible rod or gooseneck connected to a base with an integrated 4-port USB 2.0 hub.

Its main application is desktop-usage. The base, as it will be discussed later, is bulky and heavy, making a poor candidate for portability.

It is very unfortunate that Arctic has gone with a frameless fan. The main disadvantage of such a design is the risk of hitting the fan with a finger or a foreign object. The main advantage, in my mind, is a higher airflow because of the absence of restriction of a fan grill. Nevertheless, seeing as the base is a USB hub, the chances of hitting the fan when plugging a USB device is really high.

The Arctic Breeze Pro

The Arctic Breeze Pro, as is common with any other Arctic product, is black, grey and white. Aesthetically speaking, it is bland. Nevertheless, many users will enjoy its simplicity as it blends well with any other computer peripheral.

The back of the Arctic Breeze Pro

The 4-port USB hub of the Arctic Breeze Pro can be powered through AC, but Arctic does not supply the required adapter.

The AC adapter port

As we will see later, unlike the Arctic Breeze Mobile, the Arctic Breeze Pro has a dial that will adjust the fan speed from 800, to 1,800 RPM. The fan speed is very responsive to the changes of the dial. If quiet computing is a must for you, then this feature will certainly please you.

When the Arctic Breeze Pro is powered, the circular ring of the fan speed dial will glow blue. The light is not excessively bright and it is just enough to be pleasing.