FrozenCPU Reportedly Closes Its Doors

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| Source: Inside Source on Overclock.net forums Author: Mark Campbell

FrozenCPU Reportedly Closes Its Doors

Word has it that the popular US pc cooling and modding website FrozenCPU has reportedly closed it's doors according to an inside source on the overclock.net forum.

This inside source in to FrozenCPU says that all staff has been fired and the company has no plans to re-establish itself and given the fact that all the staff has been fired that no more orders will be taken and that no action has been taken to update the website or to inform the community.

This is what the Frozen CPU insider had to say;

"The owner has struggled a long battle with addiction, and events that unfolded earlier last week have rendered the company unoperational and shut down for good. Physical damage of the warehouse has occurred as well as the dismissal of all support and warehouse staff; the company has no plans of re-establishing themselves."

"I want to protect the community that fostered my love for computers and technology from sending payments or spending money on products that will not come. Some users have already caught on to this fact after their UPS Overnights were not delivered today. Since all staff has been fired, nobody is updating the website to inform the loyal community about the closure, nor has anyone taken steps to shut the website down. "

As of yet no word has came officially from FrozenCPU regarding this matter, so we advise all those who were planning to make a purchase from this website to be cautious at this time.

We will update this article as we find out more.

Update!

An official representative of Swiftech has confirmed that the site is now closed. Here is what he said on the overclock.net forum.

"Yeah, this is confirmed. Not sure what's going to happen now, but we have confirmed that Frozen CPU is out of business."

We advise all of our readers to not make any orders form this site as your purchase will likely go unread and your order will therefore not be delivered.

It is always sad to see a good PC retailer, especially one which regards high performance PCs and modding so highly close down. We at OC3D hope that FrozenCPU's former employees can quickly find new jobs and that customers with outstanding orders can quickly have their issues resolved.

Update!

Swiftech has since retracted their previous statement regarding FrozenCPU's closure. Here is a quote from Gabriel Rouchon, chairman and CEO of Swiftech.

"I need to officially retract any statements with respect to Frozen CPU closing down made by our rep here. We have no official information in that respect. I do apologize for any confusion on the part of our rep, which was caused by an informal conversation we had and that should have never been publicly disclosed.



The truth of the matter is this: nobody except Frozen CPU insiders really know what happened, and I for one have been unable to contact any such insiders.



All I can hope is that this could be a temporarily thing, and if it is not, then I am personally saddened by the news."







In addition to this statement the guys over at HardOCP, have managed to contact the owner of FrozenCPU, Mark Fringa. The owner says that FrozenCPU is in fact not going out of business but does say that they currently running with a "skeleton crew" of employees.

The owner says to please bare with the company at this difficult time as they ramp back up to 100% employee capacity.

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