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Tiny Pipes Deliver The Big Chill
News This development could lead to smaller and more efficient notebook computers as engineers and designers eliminate the space needed to house bulky and noisy fan cooling systems. Typical laptops contain a heat sink -- a plate of metal across the...
[January 23, 2003, 9:26]
Fix Noisy Computer Fans With A Drop Of Oil
News The reason that you shouldn't use WD-40 on a computer fan is that while it is indeed a lubricant it's mainly designed as a cleaner/degreaser, that loosens stuck parts, prevents corrosion, and displaces water-obviously not the types of problems...
[June 3, 2003, 11:01]
Nvidia Courts Gamers With High-end Chip
News The new Nvidia chip also eliminates one of the least-admired aspects of the 5800: the big, noisy cooling fan that the chip required. Steve Sims, senior product manager for Nvidia, said the 5900 uses a cooling system based on Nvidia's workstation...
[May 12, 2003, 8:33]
How To Make Your PCs Quieter
News To combat this issue, PC Power & Cooling makes an excellent low-noise case fan. Companies such as Koolance are trying to widen the acceptance of water cooling by providing computer cases with prebuilt water-cooling solutions.
[July 23, 2002, 13:05]
How To Stop Your Hardware Overheating
News There's no need to install additional cooling if your core temperatures are acceptable. For thermal problems with memory or hard drives, there are heat sinks and cooling fans that can be mounted to provide additional protection.
[August 12, 2003, 9:45]
Pentium 4: Too Hot To Handle?
News These machines, weighing in at 5.5 pounds and more, generally offer better cooling capacity and extra space for larger batteries, when compared with notebooks that weigh four pounds or less. By comparison, Intel's 1.2GHz Pentium III-M thermal...
[December 13, 2001, 9:29]
Run, Don't Walk Away From Dell!
Member Review The fan cooling (actually, the "lack of" cooling system) is a major problem. Read all reviews carefully before buying a Dell Inspiron 5100! Even worse is the need to replace the motherboard in such a short period of time.
[October 13, 2005, 8:25]
Fix Noisy Computer Fans With A Drop Of Oil
Talkback I was looking through cooling fan adverts to replace two noisy fans and came across this item on how to oil them. I was a little cynical at first but decided to try it which was a very simple job with the instructions supplied and guess what ?
[April 13, 2005, 14:27]
Fix Noisy Computer Fans With A Drop Of Oil
Talkback I first cleaned out the dust and then oiled the main cooling fan as indicated. Also at that time i thought the fan on the PNY GeForce Fx5200 graphics card could be making the noise. I removed the card, then its independent fan, and oiled it.
[February 19, 2006, 16:17]
Dell H2C Technology: Hybrid Cooling For Overclocked CPUs
White Papers H2C uses thermal sensors, electronic controls, and active management of fan speeds and ThermoElectric Cooling (TEC) voltage to keep CPU temperature slightly above ambient room temperature, which prevents the formation of humidity condensation or...
[March 1, 2007, 0:00]
Embedded System Ensures Low-Cost Deployment Of Entertainment Devices On U.K. Trains
White Papers It was vital the infrastructure created minimal heat and avoided fan-assisted cooling. Volo, based in the U.K.planned to implement a number of entertainment devices in train carriage seats. The devices needed a hardware and software environment...
[August 30, 2007, 1:00]
Intelligent Cooling System Designed To Cut Data Centre Bills
News Degree's Adaptivcool system consists of a series of sensors, hubs and other cooling components linked together. This cooling system pinpoints hot spots inside a computer room and directs cool air from the room's air conditioner to that spot.
[January 4, 2006, 9:00]
VoiceButler Adds New Chord To Transmeta
News Because the chip consumes relatively little power, it has a low operating temperature and does not need a fan cooling system, eliminating a common source of breakdowns. The line runs at 667MHz to 933MHz, faster than most ARM chips, but consumes...
[April 3, 2003, 13:44]
Will Cube Copy Bring Apple's Wrath?
News In addition, it's about twice the size of Apple's compact Cube, which measures 8in on each side and lacks card-expansion slots or a cooling fan. According to Steve Horng, DA Computing's manager of sales and marketing, the inside of the case is...
[November 17, 2000, 9:26]
Silence Is Golden, For Some
News Most of the Taiwan company's PC processors and motherboards are low-power models designed to run without a cooling fan, an advantage that has helped Via chips find their way into an increasing number of media-centric PCs.
[January 31, 2005, 15:45]
Intel Unveils Its Tech Treasures
News It survives 40,000 openings and closings, and means the cooling fan can run very slowly and quietly, if at all. Closely resembling the cooling system on a Morris 1100, this beast keeps the CPU at around -160°C.
[September 21, 2007, 11:24]
Via Tweaks Tiny PCs
News The Eden chip does not require a fan, and the C3 processor, while not as powerful as mainstream chips from AMD or Intel, requires only modest cooling. It doesn't need a fan, and it can just sit there and go on forever, 24 hours a day, without...
[January 13, 2003, 13:46]
Coming To A Mac Near You: 1.2GHz?
News Xtrem said the system's Super Silent Drive (SSD) will eliminate all noise from the hardware, and its cooling system will obviate the need for a fan. In addition, the system will feature active cooling of the system's motherboard, memory and cache...
[August 9, 2000, 10:04]
Inside The Recycled Data Centre
News This picture, looking down through a glass cutaway, shows the water-supply pipes for part of the cooling system. The water pumping system is connected to the pipes running under the floor to the water-cooling systems in the sealed server cabinets.
[March 11, 2008, 16:38]
Small PCs Feel The NForce2
News Shuttle copes with the heat problem using its patented Integrated Cooling Engine technology (ICE), which uses heat pipes to channel the processor's heat directly to a fan at the back of the case. And in keeping with XPC tradition it is supplied as...
[January 8, 2003, 10:39]
