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Polar Flair: The New ARCTIC.ac

ARCTIC - Cooler than ever

Have you seen it yet?! After a long period of intense planning and a few revisions, the new ARCTIC website is finally online. With the redesign of website, we aim to present ourselves as we actually are: a contemporary, service-oriented PC tech company. In addition to the visual aspects of the redesign, we placed a special emphasis on optimizing usability and performance. The implementation of dynamic, target group-specific worlds of experience is an important next step en route to a better buying experience.

We hope you love the new branding as much as we do! Now—here are a few features we’re especially proud of:

The new design is characterized by visually distinctive Northern Lights imagery.

The enhanced user experience includes fast, intuitive navigation and responsive design with shorter loading times.

The webshop received a complete overhaul, including improvement of the ordering processes and payment options. While customers in Europe can shop directly from the site, ARCTIC is working intensively to provide a convient shopping solution for its North American customers. Details thereof will be announced shortly.

In the Community section you can experience our social media presence at a glance:

The site is currently available in German and English.

We’d love to hear your feedback on the content as well as usability of the page!

Visit the site: ARCTIC.ac

Indispensable but undecided: Which fan is right for me?

ARCTIC Casefan p-fan bionix

Fans: If not for the fresh air they provide, your computer would run out of steam at some point. Not infrequently underestimated, case fans play a key role in PC cooling. Used properly, they will help your system achieve long-lasting operation with maximum performance. Likewise, they can also be the cause of disturbances – be it through annoying noises or even the tragic heat death of other components. This means a case fan should be chosen with care and adapted to suit its specific purpose. Choices are not lacking, but which is the right fan for you?

Here ARCTIC, we split our fans into two product groups: the pressure-optimized P-series, and the high airflow F-series. The F fans are particularly suitable as case fans, while the P fans are designed especially for use on heat sinks, radiators and concealed housing inlets.

For a more in-depth comparison of our two fan series, click here. So, you‘ve decided between pressure-optimized and high airflow fans—now what? Here’s what to choose if you want a…

Basic fan

Reduced to the essentials, but without sacrificing quality: our F and P standard models with fixed speeds offer an excellent balance of effective cooling, quiet operation and exceptionally good value for money.

Available in (diameter) sizes 80/90, 120 and 140 mm.

Barely audible fan Silent

Specially optimized for silent systems, this fan was designed with low fixed speed and inaudible 0.08 sone. Want to know the secret? At low fan speed, the engine noise is crucial. A German-engineered engine with an improved alloy/lubricant combination reduces friction and keeps operating noise to a minimum.

Available in sizes 80/90 (F series only), 120 and 140 mm.

Fan with manual/custom control PWM

Thanks to its 4-pin connector, fan speed can be controlled via pulse-width modulation or PWM. Depending on the workload, the speed can be customly set to always guarantee the maximum cooling capacity with minimum noise.

Available in sizes 80/90 (F series only) 120 and 140 mm.

Fan with temperature sensor TC

The highlight of this fan series is a separate temperature sensor. This sits at the end of a long cable and can be placed anywhere in the housing where the most heat is generated. It determines the ideal speed of the fan without PWM signal and ensures the lowest possible noise level with, of course, good cooling performance.

Available in sizes 80/90 (F series only), 120 and 140 mm.

Fan with distribution cable PWM PST

Thanks to innovative PWM sharing technology (PST), several fans can be daisy-chained together with just one PWM signal. Here‘s how connected fans rotate in unison: evenly quiet in phases with low load; simultaneous and fast when necessary; and always extremely effective.

Available in sizes 80/90 (F series only), 120 and 140 mm.

Want to see PWM PST in action? Check our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vw2QWWgdvI

Continuous operation fan PWM PST CO

Robustness is necessary here: CO (“Continuous Operation”) fans cool 24 hours a day, 7 days a week– making them ideal for servers, for example. The premium quality of the double ball bearing reduces friction and, consequently, reduces wear and tear. Compared to standard models, the service life is five times longer.

Available with PWM PST in sizes 80/90 (F series only), 120 and 140 mm.

Fan with vibration absorption PRO

Patented Solution: ARCTIC’s PRO fans feature a vibration-damping design that absorbs vibrations from the fan within the mount, providing the ultimate in smoothness. Due to the unique frame, however, only one-sided attachment is possible.

Available with TC & PWM PST in sizes 80, 90 and 120 mm (F series only).

Gaming fan BioniX

With a focus on design (available in multiple color options), ultra-low-vibration operation and a particularly wide speed range, these high-speed fans are tailored to meet the needs of gamers.

Available with PWM PST sizes in 120 mm and 140 mm.

Text: Tamy Kahlert

LUCKY DRAW—THE LUCKY STREAK CONTINUES

lucky draw thermal paste 2020

Are you feeling lucky today?

Well, we’re certainly feeling lucky to have such amazing customers in the ARCTIC community. Because it’s proven to be such a great way to show our gratitude, we’ve decided to extend our Lucky Draw competition into 2020!

In case you haven’t heard, Lucky Draw is a monthly giveaway we launched to celebrate selling the 10 millionth unit of ARCTIC MX thermal compound. Entering is easy: all you’ve had to do is scan the QR code on your MX-2 or MX-4 packaging. Although we initially planned for the giveaway to end in 2019, the response has been so positive that we’ve decided to take it with us into the new year.

Going forward, all MX products purchased since 2019—not just the 2019 edition– will come with a Scan & Win QR code for the duration of the giveaway. Try your luck and enter today*. Visit https://lucky-mx.arctic.ac/ for all of the details.

* Natural persons who are at least 18 years old and reside in Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Canada (excluding Quebec), China, USA (excluding Florida and New York), East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei or in Cambodia.

Text: Tatiana Hanebutte

The ARCTIC Amazon Brand Store has a new look!

ARCTIC Amazon Store

As Amazon grows in importance for consumers, companies now have the possibility to highlight their products in new ways in the Brand Store. This user-friendly interface is a multi-page store where ARCTIC can now present products and categories, and even keep customers up to date on our best deals and upcoming projects.

We’ve pumped up our Amazon Brand Store to make it more attractive and user-friendly by updating product information and images and optimizing the layout. With the improved design, you can now see all the products we offer at a glance. This will help you to find the products you need and get a better overview of our product variety. 

You can find our Amazon Shops for each country under:

Let us know what you think!

Introducing ARCTIC’s New P-Fans

ARCTIC is proud to announce that we’re adding a whole new segment to our fan offering with the release of the new 120- and 140 mm P-fan series.
While our F-series fans – including the BioniX F120 and the BioniX F140 – feature a high airflow, the new P-fans are optimized for a high static pressure while maintaining a high level of airflow.
The engine technology has also been significantly improved for the P-fan models with PWM. Thanks to a neodymium iron-boron magnet of the latest generation, the fans run more efficiently and with significantly less operating noise and vibrations from commutation.
The new technology also allows us to significantly expand the speed range of the new P-fans without sacrificing durability. That’s why our new P-fans with PWM come with a 10-year warranty.
As an additional benefit of the improved motor technology, our PWM-enabled P-fans have the 0 dB mode – with a PWM signal below 5%, the fans turn off, ensuring an absolutely silent system.

Which fan is the right for you: Optimized for high static pressure or high airflow?

The fans‘ different strenghts lead to different performance characteristics, which makes each fan suitable for different purposes. So—when should you choose a fan for high airflow, and when should you choose one optimized for static pressure?
The fans of the F-series are characterized by a high air flow and transport a large amount of air when there is little to none air resistance. This means they are ideal for use as case fans.
By contrast, the new P-fans guarantee consistently high cooling performance due to the increased static pressure in situations with increased air resistance, caused by, for example, a radiator, close-meshed fan grilles or heatsinks. Fans of the P-series are therefore particularly suitable for use on heat sinks.
Of course, all fans can still be installed in push or pull configuration.

More color variations in the product family

In total, six versions of the new P-series fans (P, P Silent, P PWM, P PWM PST, P PWM PST CO, BioniX P) will be available, each in 120 mm and 140 mm.
We’re also offering, for the first time, different color variations for our standard fans. The fan models P12 PWM and P12 PWM PST will be available in three different colors: Black / Black; Black / Transparent (with a black frame and semi-transparent fan blades); and White / Transparent (with white frame and semi-transparent fan blades). Our BioniX P-fans will also be available in the fan favorite colors of white and red.

ARCTIC 2018: Facelifts and product launches

Is the new AIO going to get launched soon? When do the ARCTIC coolers start blinking? We are often confronted with some interesting questions about ARCTIC’s technologies and product development. As we like to provide you with some first-hand information, we asked our Technical Director Vincent Andre some tricky questions. So what is our R&D department actually up to?

Can you first tell us about your role @Arctic?

Vincent Andre
Technical Director

My role at ARCTIC has multiple aspects, first, I am the head of the R&D department; bringing the projects from mere concept to reality. It all starts with the product’s functional concept, which is followed by developing an attractive design by our Industrial Designer. Then, our team of skilled engineers develops the mechanical structure and electronic board by using the latest CAD tools. We fine-tune the design by simulating the product performance by computer. As simulation can be thrown off by the slightest configuration deviation, we always double confirm the finalized design with prototypes. Our R&D centre in Hong-Kong has numerous testing equipment to verify all aspects of our products. Afterwards, the purchasing and NPI teams will take care of the last leg of the product development, which is defining the right suppliers and helping them to get the production line ready for mass production, Additional they make sure the quality requirements are followed and every detail is done right.

Besides that, I overview the IT development of the company either internally concerning new equipment and software or externally concerning our website. Lastly, together with Magnus Huber, our CEO and Peter Jankowski, our Sales Director, we define the company’s strategy.

Are there some interesting product launches planned for this year?

Yes, definitely.

Our Alpine family, the low-end part of our CPU coolers will soon undergo a total facelift. The aim is to better supply the AMD segment, now relived with Ryzen, but as well to make the product choice for our customers more clear and concise.

Our Freezer family will as well continue to expand in both air coolers and liquid coolers. The existing models will also continue to evolve in order to offer our users the latest performance gain that our engineers identified.

Our fans series will as well be extended with quite a few new models.

Finally yet importantly, on the VGA cooling front, we are now working on a cooler that offers excellent performance. It keeps a GTX 1080 Ti in thirties degrees C, and the VRM in the fifties. We are working with some partners to make it available soon.

Can you tell us some news concerning technical solutions of ARCTIC products?

We have been working lately on improving our cooler performance further, while maintaining their production cost. I am happy to report already that we are successful in this regard and achieved significant progress on all types of coolers. So in 2018, expect to see ARCTIC’s products going higher in the performance charts while remaining in the lower price segment. That is what we believe in ARCTIC: Performance comes at a cost, yes, but that cost can be controlled!

Design and visuality play an important role for gamers. How are ARCTIC products going to look like in the coming years?

Well, it is honestly difficult to predict years ahead of time, but as our latest Freezer 33 eSports Edition/One and TR showed, we are now putting more effort in the cosmetics of our products. But there is a catch. We saw lately a lot of products where the design is greatly improved but impede the performance, the biggest example being the Tempered Glass PC cases with their “fan-choking” designs. We at ARCTIC do not want to lose any performance and therefore, we take our time to get the solution heavily tested so that this kind of perils do not happen. We also want to do it right, some RGB products we saw lately are simply improvable, they have limited configuration, the light is unevenly spread etc. We believe that having a new design feature should be implemented fully, not just added as a last minute change. That’s why ARCTIC products have no RGB… yet.

ARCTIC at the Gandalf Roadshow 2017 in Sweden

HEJ SVERIGE! After an early start at 04:00 in the morning at the end of September, our colleagues Dina and Jehona arrived in Gothenburg in good spirits and in anticipation. It wasn’t for holiday though. Dina and Jehona had a full program during the roadshow with presentations in three cities ahead of them and they had packed a variety of our products.

Dina and Jehona at the Gandalf Road Show in Sweden

The start of the roadshow of our distributor Gandalf was in Gothenburg, the second station was Malmö and the last stop was in the Swedish capital Stockholm. The goal was to present ARCTIC personally, to get in direct contact with our Scandinavian customers, to meet new sales partners and to show the extensive ARCTIC product portfolio.

After a rainy arrival in Gothenburg, Dina and Jehona first opened their weather apps because they had hoped to see Sweden by the sun. Luckily this happened in the further course of their journey. They went on their way to the venue and took the train and taxis to collect some impressions from Sweden.

The welcome was very warm and first discussions with other event participants were already made during lunch. Various ideas about products and branches were exchanged.

Afterwards, they were present at our booth, presented ARCTIC and our various products and answered numerous questions. The constructive feedback directly from our customers was very valuable to us as we made new contacts.

The procedures were the same all three days of the event. In addition to a few lectures and a joint dinner, the exhibitors presented their products at their mobile stands.

ARCTIC Products at the Roadshow in Malmo / Sweden

The three days of the roadshow weren’t monotonous though. After all, every day Jehona and Dina went to another, interesting city in Sweden. The harbor town of Gothenburg, the romantic Malmö and the unique Stockholm; Dina and Jehona would have liked to explore all the cities extensively, but unfortunately there wasn’t enough time. But they decided that they will go back to Stockholm at least one more time.

On all days there was a very harmonious and entertaining atmosphere – the drink vouchers which offered wine and swedish beer among other beverages certainly contributed to the atmosphere 🙂

As a conclusion, it was an all-round positive experience for Jehona and Dina to be at this professional and interesting roadshow.

How to cool AMD Ryzen Threadripper Processors?

The Ryzen Threadripper is the new CPU from AMD for high-end systems – which possibilities do you have to efficiently cool a CPU with up to 16 cores?

Up to 16 cores and 32 threads, 4,096 pins, 64 PCI-E 3.0 lanes, quad-channel DDR4 RAM and 180 W TDP: The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper are very powerful CPU and with sufficient reserves even for demanding tasks.

The physical dimension of the Threadripper alone show the need for a powerful cooling solution. With the mentioned 4,096 pins the CPUs are significantly larger than other processors for private use.

Due to the size the new SocketTR4 was developed with its own chipset, X399. Cooling solutions, which still fit on equally new AMD AM4 socket, can’t be mounted on sTR4 Mainboards.

With prices starting at 800 EUR, the CPUs are not a bargain, but they are among the most powerful processors a home user can currently buy. Threadripper Processors promise excellent performance in particularly when multiple CPU Cores are needed, e.g. for gaming, video rendering, and other demanding applications.

But how to cool such large and powerful processors effectively?

Adjusted CPU Cooler needed

Because of the larger design, conventional CPU air coolers, which are compatible with AMD’s AM4 Socket and are designed for regular Ryzen processors, won’t fit the sTR4 for Threadripper CPUs.

Threadripper CPU coolers can, however, usually also be mounted and used on Ryzen processors in the AM4 socket.

Due to the high performance and the resulting high heat level of about 180 W TDP, AMD conducted extensive tests to check the compatibility of the cooling solutions available on the market.

The list of AMD certified Tthreadripper CPU coolers can be found here.

Threadripper CPU Cooler from ARCTIC

Since we are a close partner of AMD, a mounting kit for our CPU coolers of the Liquid Freezer series are provided with each Threadripper CPU. This allows the Liquid Frezer 120, Liquid Freezer 240 and Liquid Freezer 360 to be used to cool Threadripper CPUs.

ARCTIC Freezer 33 TR

Threadripper certified: The new ARCTIC Freezer 33 TR

If, on the other hand, you prefer regular air cooling for Threadripper, we recommend our newly developed Freezer 33 TR. It is designed for CPU with a TDP of up to 200 W.

The Liquid Freezer 240, 360 and the Freezer 33 TR are also certified by AMD as a cooling solution for Threadripper Processors.

So if you are interested in the AMD Ryzen Threadripper and wonder how it can cool it effectively and quietly, we from ARCTIC provide powerful yet silent Threadripper CPU Cooler.

Compact but strong – ARCTIC presents Freezer 12 and Freezer 12 CO

COMPACT BUT STRONG – ARCTIC PRESENTS FREEZER 12 AND FREEZER 12 CO

Semi passive and virtually silent Tower CPU Coolers for small systems

With the Freezer 12 and Freezer 12 CO, ARCTIC now offers two compact CPU coolers, which are multi-compatible and also suitable for the AMD Ryzen AM4 socket. The successors of the Freezer 11 series convince all along the line with regards to noise level, cooling capacity, mounting versatility and transport-proofness. As semi passive coolers, the Freezer 12 and Freezer 12 CO also work extremely efficiently as the fan only starts up at a PWM signal with 40 % pulse width.

The fan runs only when it is actually needed, i.e. with increased CPU utilization. In combination with the vibration absorption rubber mounts of the fan, this leads to almost silent operation even at its maximum cooling performance of 150 watts. The 92 mm fan provides an improved air flow, three double sided direct touch heat pipes and 45 aluminum fins ensure an optimal heat dissipation and an excellent cooling power. Unlike the predecessor Freezer 11 series, the Freezer 12 and Freezer 12 CO are multi-compatible and fit Intel sockets as well as AMD AM4.

The Freezer 12 CO is specifically designed for continuous operation. With its high-precision dual ball bearing, the cooler lasts five times as long as other coolers with standard bearings.

Main Features Freezer 12 / Freezer 12 CO
• Compatible with Intel & AMD socket
• Passive Operation up to 40 % PWM
• Improved airflow for more efficient cooling performance
• Offset heat pipes ensure optimal heat dissipation
• Improved fan controller made in Germany
• Anti-vibration rubbers for quiet operation
• Installation in all four directions possible
• Transport-proof mounting with backplate
• MX-4 thermal paste included

For the sake of the environment, ARCTIC provides the manuals for the new product line online only:
Freezer 12 | Freezer 12 CO

EXTENSIVE COMPATIBILITY WITH AMD RYZEN
The bulk of our CPU coolers is already compatible to the
AM4-socket. An overview is available on our Website.

15 Years of Expertise

ARCTIC does not only play in the top league of the cooling specialists ever since, ARCTIC initiated the trend towards quiet cooling systems for desktop PCs and left a distinct mark. In 2001 the Swiss engineer and company founder Magnus Huber has determined to fight against loud computers – today, the still privately-owned company with locations in Germany, Hong Kong and the USA offers one of the world’s largerst ranges of CPU and GPU coolers. Maximum compatibility, first-class performance and lowest volume convince enthusiasts in over 45 countries around the globe. With the competence of an unique expert knowledge from 15 years of (pc) noise minimization ARCTIC is building out its portfolio through high-quality sound products and office equipment.

                 

ARCTIC GmbH | Fasanenkamp 12 | 38108 Braunschweig
CEO: Magnus Huber I Headquarter: Braunschweig
Registry court: HRB 203471
Tax office: Braunschweig I Sales tax ID: DE277068088

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