Introduction

Arctic Cooling, the Swiss art of engineering. Arctic Cooling is a private owned company founded in 2001 with headquarters in Switzerland, offices in Hong Kong and with production facilities in Asia. The team of Arctic Cooling insists o­n international young highly educated people with business, technical and communicational skills. The attitude to work is based o­n the Swiss innovative spirit and adheres to the high Swiss standard recognized internationally. This striving for excellence is integrated in all processes and is a matter of course. Arctic Cooling's core competencies are multifarious such as systematic noise reduction, copper and aluminum heatsinks, customizing of thermal solutions, just-in-time fan manufacturing, ceramic bearing, multiple signal output interface and low noise fan blade design.

Arctic Cooling is a leader in creating thermal cooling solution for personal computer systems that enable CPU, GPU and PC case cooling while reducing the noise level. Increased heat generated by modern computer systems has overwhelmed most existing CPU cooler manufacturers in their efforts to keep pace with the demands in terms of cooling. At the same time noise pollution caused by today's IT systems has increased, severely affecting productivity in open office environments. Arctic Cooling has been working with globally recognized companies in the graphics industry. Through these partnerships Arctic Cooling is privileged in gaining latest know how about graphics for developing new cooling solutions. At Arctic Cooling, they combine the Swiss art of engineering to realize innovative cooling ideas.

These days thermal compound has become quite essential to the success of overclocking certain hardware components. If you've ever installed a fancy new heatsink on your processor then you know thermal compound can be very influential to cooling. If no thermal compound or thermal pad is used in the interface between a heatsink and the core of a processor, improper heat transmission may occur. If that happens the heatsink may over heat, or it may just run hotter than it really needs to. Even a very small amount of thermal compound can affect the transmission of heat between the surface of a processor and the base of a heatsink. In essence thermal compound has become a vital aspect for a stable and cool running system.

Main Features

• High Thermal Conductivity
• Low Thermal Resistance
• Non-Electrical Conductive
• Non-Electrical Capacitive
• Non-Curing/Corrosive
• No Compound Bleeding
• Odourless

The Arctic Cooling MX-2 compound is a high thermal conductive and low thermal resistance compound for components that require improved thermal dissipation. It is ideally suited for us in CPU, GPU cooling and other applications between power semiconductor components and heatsinks where thermal conductivity are major concerns. Since the Arctic Cooling MX-2 compound doesn't contain any metal particles, there are no problems regarding electrical conductivity and capacitance. In contrast to silver and copper compounds, contact to electrical traces, pins and leads can't result in any damage. In contrast to metal or silicon pastes, this compound doesn't show decreasing performance over time doesn't need to be reapplied and has a durability of at least 8 years.

The package is attractive and lists the main features on the front. What does come handy with this transparent box is that you can just see the thermal compound syringe completely. On packaging their products Arctic Cooling certainly knows their world. It is simple though professional to attract potential buyers. And frankly it shouldn't be more than, cause getting the attention by the package alone does sell more items. If the package can catch the eye of a potential buyer then the job is halfway done, after that it comes down to either knowing the brand or the specifications. Either way, Arctic Cooling is quite known already and the features of the MX-2 compound do speak for themselves.

Turning the package around we get to the back of the box. The back of the package is revealing certain aspects of the thermal compound in more details and also provides some extra information on specifics of the Arctic Cooling compound. On the back you also find a table of comparison with other compounds that are well known, like the previous Arctic Cooling MX-1 but also Arctic Silver 5 and the Pro-Grade compounds from Akasa. All in all the packaging is well thought out and provides enough information on the product itself. So we can say that Arctic Cooling has made an excellent package with lots of information put on the box to make clear what this product is capable of in terms thermal conductivity. Time to apply the MX-2 compound and find out the real deal...