For a CPU, or processor, to maintain a safe operating temperature, it needs a CPU fan. When properly installed, a CPU fan stays in constant contact with the CPU's metal plate so all the heat generated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sarfraz is an avid PC enthusiast who has a decade of experience in PC hardware. He has written extensively on all types of consumer PC components and peripherals on Xtremegaminerd since the time when ...

Keep your system cool and running at its best with the best computer CPU cooling fans, designed for efficient heat management and peak performance. Alexandru-Bogdan Ghita / Unsplash The game is ...

Windows PCs and laptops require a dedicated fan to support heat dissipation. The fan helps keep the hardware cool and ensures it doesn’t overheat in any intensive work or task. During peak performance ...

A CPU fan is more than just a fan. It is attached to CPU with power pins/wires and a sensor that tells it how fast to run. If the CPU is heating, the sensor will make the fan run faster. As such, the ...

Cuong Nguyen, Dr. James E. Smith Jr., and Xiaolin Wang are members of a University of Alabama in Huntsville research team. Image courtesy of UAH Around this time last year, I wrote about a way to cool ...

There's nothing more irritating than a noisy computer fan making a loud racket all day while you're trying to work or game. Here's some common solutions.

Fans in PCs can be objectionably loud. In many cases, the amount of noise produced by the fan can be considerably reduced by lowering its speed. Although this will decrease the amount of cooling, this ...

Asus calls the setup AniMe Holo, claiming that it's the "world’s first holographic fan system in a prebuilt gaming PC". The ...

Windows machines are complicated and that means there are thousands of potential issues that any user might encounter throughout his or her course of usage. For some people, software problems might ...