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What! All that just for that? The bonkers world of CPU cooling.

Posted Nov 17, 2011, by Robin Bornoff

My colleague Ed and I were marvelling the other day at the CPU cooling unit from one of our training desktop PCs undergoing a repair. “What, all that just for that!?”. The CPU itself was but a small square wafer compared to the behemoth that was the ducted fan and heatsink with integral heatpipes mounted on top of it. Whereas transistor sizes are measured in nanometres cooling systems can … Read More

Tags: CPU cooling, Electronics Cooling, CFD, PC cooling, Heatsink