Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Essential Tips To Find The Best CPU Cooling Fan

By Jack Liu

CPU Cooling Fan a type of Computer Fan. These are small fans build inside the computer or CPU used to disperse the heat and cool the equipment. The computer systems produce large amount of heat while carrying out certain operations. If the heat generated increases the normal level damages certain components of the computer.

Cooling fans are used to cool the equipment and thrashing out the heat. Cooling the equipment and thrashing out the heat is referred as Active Cooling. These fans carry on the activity of cooling in various ways they either throw the heat out or transfer it to the heat sink which is just below the fan. Proper maintenance of heat is very much necessary else it may damage the performance of the computer.

Usually a CPU (Central Process Unit) contains three or four fans. They were days when PC CPU's could get away with just a little aluminum heat sink stuck on top of them or no cooler at all, but today when these computers are used massively and carry on various operations around the clock it becomes necessary to choose a CPU which has a cooling fan. Because the faster a given CPU runs, and the higher is its supply voltage, the more heat it emits. If the cooling sink is attached to the top of the chip and can't dissipate heat well, the CPU will get too hot and stop working.

CPU's carry on various operations, these operations increases the temperature of certain components and starts' multiplying the energy or heat, the heat generated each time is equivalent to the heat lost and the heat observed in the surroundings of the system. If this heat generated is not maintained or thrown away they are high chances of loosing or damaging certain components. The computer may stop working if the heat increases the normal level. Efficiency and high performance of the computer or CPU very much depends on the level of heat generated and controlled.

A cooling fan is not the only way or solution to keep the equipment cool or transfer the heat still cooling fans stand at par to any other solution. A cooling fan also helps in increasing the life span of the computer and helping it to give high performance. Still they are certain drawbacks found in a cooling fan viz. dust, improper heat transfer or poor air flow. These are the drawback which doesn't allow a cooling fan to perform well.

CPU's don't generate heat all the time in a massive extent. Only if they are over used by loading some benchmark software or a program that thrashes the CPU which results in making it and generating heat. - 15634

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