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HOW TO cool down your blazing hot Computer

Posted By: Vikas Shekhawat | Feb 27 2006

We devised these machines to suck in most of the heat produced by our overworked and overinvolved brains, but what if these start melting? In order to cater to our growing needs, we're making faster computers with compact and fast hardware like motherboards, video cards and what not and these are adding more heat to the machine with their enhanced performances. The expansion caused due to overheating ultimately kills the performance of the whole computer. Certainly the lowly-lowly fan is not enough to keep the cool.

hot computer
hot computer

So, the question arises, how to keep the machine cool and kicking? Here're some simple principles following which you can easily drain out the heat off your machine. The basic idea is to transfer the heat replacing it by cool fresh air via heat sinks and fans.