Arctic Cooling
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Arctic Cooling is a Swiss maker of coolers for computer components, most notably heat sinks and fans.
Arctic Cooling's flagship product is the Arctic Silencer graphics card cooler line. Employing DHES (Direct Heat Exhaust System) technology, they significantly reduce core temperatures as well as computer case ambient temperatures. The DHES works by drawing cool air from within the computer case, passing it through a high efficiency heatsink over the core chip, and then directly disposing of the heated air out the rear of the case, thus preventing circulation of hot air within the case. Arctic Silencers are produced exclusively for NVidia and ATI graphics cards. Recently, Arctic Cooling has taken a turn away from DHES technology with the introduction of the Accelero X1 and X2 for NVidia and ATI cards respectively.
[edit] Fan Design
Arctic Cooling has created a patented fan design, shown on the left, which 'floats' the fan. This allows the fan to be quieter, but does not allow the fan to be mounted in the reverse position.
[edit] See also
- Competitors
- Papst
- Spire
- Thermaltake
- Zalman
