Aftermarket Cooling Systems
19 March 2009
Many people see those fancy computer cooling fans in some geek’s computer and shrug them off as mere accessories yet beneath all the fancy looks and anodized aluminum fins are actually a lot of technology to cool off those hot, very hot computer processors. Left without proper cooling, a microprocessor whatever the manufacturer it may come from will fail due to heat stress. Though they are designed to take the heat, they can only do so for a limited time, which is what a cooling fan intends to do. There is however a simple yet irritating fact associated with too much cooling fans, noise. The hum or buzz yu hear with several fans running is quite a nuisance yet after sometime you’ll get used to it.
Most new motherboards and processors have embedded temperature sensors that can be set to shut-down the system once a pre-set temperature range is reached. This prevents damage to the processor and other parts of your computer system. It has to be configured though and it is not set out of the box (it actually is at default pre-set values which may or may not offer any protection), set to many values such as high temp range, warnigns and other details.
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