Private company

Arctic

Logo: ARCTIC GmbH, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Computer cooling component manufacturer

Arctic GmbH, formerly known as Arctic Cooling, is a German, Swiss-founded manufacturer of computer cooling components, mainly CPU and graphics card coolers, case fans and thermal compound. Since 2010, Arctic expanded its business by starting a range of products to cater other consumer demands beyond that of computer cooling hardware. Nowadays, Arctic also offers various consumer products—spanning audio, home entertainment and computer peripherals.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2001Founded1
  • HeadquartersBrunswick1
  • Websitewww.arctic.de
  • Legal formGesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung1
  • LEI9845000D4F5BF68AT3563
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered addressTannenweg 4, 02681 Crostau, Germany3
  • Registered withLocal Court Dresden, HRB 239413

Arctic GmbH, formerly known as Arctic Cooling, is a German, Swiss-founded manufacturer of computer cooling components, mainly CPU and graphics card coolers, case fans and thermal compound. Since 2010, Arctic expanded its business by starting a range of products to cater other consumer demands beyond that of computer cooling hardware. Nowadays, Arctic also offers various consumer products—spanning audio, home entertainment and computer peripherals. In 2012, Arctic was nominated as one of the finalists in the annual PCR Awards.2

The story

In 2001, Arctic Cooling was founded in Switzerland by Magnus Huber. As the company name suggested, in the past, the business focused entirely on computer cooling solutions. Today, in order to expand the business into other areas especially in consumer electronics, by 2010, it began to develop a diverse range of products that spans beyond cooling into computer peripherals, audio products and home entertainment PCs. For this reason, Arctic Cooling was changed to Arctic in 2010. Since 17.11.2015 Arctic Switzerland AG is in liquidation.

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Products and brands

  • computer hardware

Listed on Wikidata.1

Products

Computer cooling

Being the company's original focus, Arctic primarily designs and manufactures cooling products for computer hardware, with broad compatibility. The company owned a number of patents for its fan and cooler designs as well as for special technologies used in the air coolers including PWM sharing, low noise impeller, cross blow and anti-vibration technologies.

Freezer

Freezer is a trademark of Arctic for its line of CPU coolers. It includes both the air cooler based on a heatpipe architecture as well as the water cooling solutions.

Alpine

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Alpine is a trademark of Arctic for its line of CPU coolers based on Aluminum extrusion heatsink. It includes both active and passive coolers.

Accelero

Accelero is a trademark of Arctic (formerly Arctic Cooling) for its line of graphics card coolers. The Accelero line of coolers are targeted to high-end graphics cards based on GPUs from Nvidia and AMD. The Accelero series utilizes different types of cooling technologies namely air cooling, passive cooling as well as to offer different options for different customers. In 2006, Accelero X1 and Accelero X2 are the first VGA coolers introduced in the series by the manufacturer. The Accelero series has collaborated in a number of OEM projects with motherboard and video card manufacturers to develop customized graphics card cooling solutions. Arctic is the first video card cooler manufacturer to use a copper base for their heatsinks.

In May 2012, ARCTIC released the Accelero Hybrid, which is claimed to be the world's first graphics card cooler with integrated air and liquid solution in the market.

Features

Graphics card coolers are generally served as an upgrade or replacement for the stock cooler in order to reduce noise, temperature and enhance the overclocking capability of the GPU. Arctic's heatsinks are claimed to provide quiet, high performance cooling, which also makes the Accelero series one of the most popular graphics card coolers in the market.

Thermal compound

Among the company's array of thermal compound, the MX-4 received the Top Product Award from the German magazine PC Games Hardware.

MX-6

MX-4

MX-2

PC case

Silentium T11

Silentium T Eco 80

Fusion Power Supplies and Storage Devices

Fusion is Arctic's brand name for various cooling and data storage products, including the Fusion 550- EU, Fusion 550RF, Fusion 550R, Fusion 550F and Fusion 1TB (external hard drive), and the Fusion 1TB data storage device.

Audio series

Arctic started to develop its audio products such as speakers, headphones and headsets since 2010 and it has expanded to wireless audio system near the end of 2011.

Living series

In June 2011, Arctic entered the HTPC market with its first mini HTPC, MC001 Entertainment Center Series, which was first introduced in Computex 2011. In 2012, Arctic introduced more advanced models with MC101 Series, AMD Trinity-powered HTPCs which are aimed for multimedia users. The MC101 Series features AMD Trinity A8/A10 APU, AMD Radeon HD 3D graphics, up to 1TB hard disk storage, SSD, up to 8GB DDR3 memory and built-in TV tuner.

On top of the entertainment centers, Arctic offers as well an audio gateway that works as a Windows Media Center Extender: Audio Relay. It is not DLNA certified but is compatible with the protocol.

Due to limited commercial success, this product line has been discontinued.

Computer peripherals

Arctic offers a selection of computer peripherals including keyboards, mice, USB fans, etc. In the end of 2011, the brand started to offer Apple accessories.

Power series

The Power series offers various USB travel adapters, car chargers and batteries.

Branding

In 2011, Arctic has started to engage its end consumers through the means of social media (e.g. Facebook) to reinforce the brand's awareness. The company was also a platinum partner with PCR Retail Boot Camp – a new conference and expo for the UK PC and IT channel.

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Timeline

  1. 2001Founded Founded1

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