I'm trying to figure out what is causing some overheating problems in a new system. It's got a TBird 1.2/266 on an AOpen MK7A. The MK7A has a temp probe inside the CPU socket, and I want to make sure ...

Heat is not a new problem in computer and semiconductor design. It goes back all the way to ENIAC in 1946. In the early 1950s, companies air-conditioned their computer rooms to combat heat. Starting ...

Under normal circumstances, the CPU in your desktop PC generates modest amounts of heat; a smart fan on top of the CPU runs just fast enough to keep it cool. At this speed, you barely hear the fan.

Mozilla's browser does not efficiently use a computer's CPU and, consequently, can cause overheating problems in some laptops, particularly ultraportables. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer ...

CPU monitoring utilities have a reputation problem, and it is not about accuracy so much as the junk that often rides along with them. In a landscape crowded with ad-supported dashboards and bloated ...

The CPU cooler that I’m testing today was actually the first I had for the LGA3647 series chips and one of the first to hit the market. I’m talking about the Supermicro 4U Active CPU Heat Sink, also ...

We’ve noticed that wireless routers pump out a bunch of heat. [Jernej Kranjec] wanted to make sure that he didn’t fry it once he started adding more load to his router using OpenWRT. What he came up ...

TeamGroup's new all-in-one cooler targets a desktop PC's CPU as well as its internal SSD. The product represents the “world's first all-in-one ARGB liquid cooling system” that reduces heat from both ...

A fairly straight forward question: can I mount a heatsink rotated 90 degrees? Specifically I'm looking at socket 1156 and the Scythe Mugen2 which comes with a backplate. I'm not sure if the mounting ...

When you look at an Intel CPU straight out of its packaging, you'll see a large piece of metal sitting on top of a piece of silicon. That piece of metal isn't actually the CPU itself, rather a heat ...

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One of the most important decisions you can make when planning out your gaming PC build is how to keep all the components in your case cool. Proper cooling increases the lifespan of your parts and can ...