Regardless of whether a fan is mounted to your central processing unit, your case or sitting on your floor, its purpose is the same. Fans change how air flows, more effectively moving it from one ...

A CPU's operating temperature will rise if the cooling fan breaks, dramatically increasing the chance of hardware failure. Stock modern computer CPUs use a two-part CPU cooler that features a heatsink ...

CPU_FAN and CPU_OPT are entirely different and serve distinct purposes in the context of a computer cooling system. CPU_FAN or CPU Fan Header is the primary 4-pin fan header on a motherboard, and it ...

I wonder why all of these computer manufacturers are using axial fans to cool CPU's and PC cases? Axial fans do not work very well against back pressures that are created when trying to push high ...

The objective of the project is to build a temperature control that can be adjusted by the user and be able to control several fans with just one sensor. Using the custom-built temperature control, ...

Heatsinks and CPU fans can be very large, limiting the hardware configurations in any computer, but what if you could condense and combine them into one component? At CES 2015, startup CoolChip ...

Building a PC with a low budget doesn’t mean poor performance. Cheap components are always getting better, but when budgeting, the PC doesn’t skimp on important things like extra fans, CPU coolers, ...

Every overclocker and gamer knows that a solid CPU cooler can make a real difference in benchmarks and in games, so for that extra edge, you need a good aftermarket CPU cooler. There are lots of good ...

After a week with my new build I'm realizing that my fan curve settings are terrible. Bottom PWM fans are mapped to coolant temp, basically linear from 50% duty cycle @ 30 Celsius coolant to 100% duty ...