CeBIT 2009 3-8 March, Hannover (Germany), day 3

Page 2 - Acrtic Cooling (Part 2: memory coolers, PSU's, cases, etc.)

Arctic Cooling presented for the first time their RAM cooler - Arctic RC. These are radiators with great heat dispersing potential, that can be used in both passive and active mode with the aid of the Arctic RC Turbo Module, specially intended to be mounted on memory modules with Arctic RC radiators on them. RC Turbo Module has 2 ultra silent 60mm fans, which supply ample air flow in order to insure high overclock potential of the memory modules.

Arctic Cooling also presented their only (for the time being) PSU at the expo, namely - Fusion 550. Though single for now the model with power of 550W is indeed a lot more special than any other with the same power in this class. For starters 550W are true output power, not input, nor peak power as many of the manufacturers like to label theirs. Its efficiency is above 80%, which is not difficult to achieve with that power and its design is differing from the usual with the fact that the fan cooling it is on the outside of the PSU hull. The stand demonstrating its capabilities had sensors supplying data that indicated it working 24/7 supplying over 550W while consuming 675W at the same time (efficiency around 85% at over 100% load of the declared maximum).

Yet another first appearance was the company's first PC case. We're talking about completely aluminum MidTower, with toolless device mounting along with even few more perks. The case offers a choice of front panels each compatible with the same basis chassis :) Along with the case we must also mention all the other things left at the Arctic Cooling stand. For beginning, Arctic Cooling revealed their new series of fans. Now the fans are attached to its chassis with special vibration-dampening system, which makes it even more quiet. All new fans of the company use the patented Arctic PST technology (PWM Sharing Technology), with which should one or more fans are attached to the same cooler that is controlled by the load on the processor or video card, their workload is split proportionally, in order to keep the system both cool and quiet.

And for the great finale the company showed an USB fan (Arctic Breeze), which is clearly intended not for your computer but for you instead and Arctic NC - an intelligent notebook cooler with 4 port USB hub. The hub though is not powered by external power adapter, so it would be advisable to use it only with low consumption devices.