From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: PC Basics, Hardware, Operating Systems, and Applications
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Passive and active cooling
From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: PC Basics, Hardware, Operating Systems, and Applications
Passive and active cooling
- Heat kills. I live in Houston, Texas, it's really hot here in the summer time. It's often hot here in the winter time too, but that season only lasts a week or two. But even that's nothing compared to the inside of a computer. Electricity flowing really fast through the CPU and circuit boards, generates a ton of heat and that heat has to go somewhere, otherwise bad things will happen. Like smoke, dead computer and no one gets to have any fun at all. Computer manufacturers use several methods to move heat. These methods fall into two categories, passive and active. I am not making this up, clearly no marketing people were involved in naming cooling methods by function. They could have called these methods, something exciting like, they do with cars, like, Vibra Cool or Cobra Flow. Oh well, back to the mundane. Let's start with passive cooling. Passive cooling relies on air. Computer parts heat up and that heat dissipates, kind of like when a dog opens her mouth and their heat flows…
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