Increase in FANs for a PC
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I am sure the content below is going to be different to the one you probably guessed/expected when you read the blog topic.
We work with computers day in day out but I am sure little will be known to many of us about the hardware inside it.
Its been almost five years now since I had a chance to look at the ubiquitous Intel Mother Board. Myself and couple other class mates of mine had assembled my computer five years back. It was a 233 MHz MMX processor machine.
That time around there was one FAN in the entire cabinet and it was the SMPS fan. But when I looked at the recent one, I could see FOUR fans. The PROCESSOR comes with a FAN understandably for its increased power. The surprise package was the FAN on the Video Card ( I think I am right here since the output from the card was running to the monitor). And then there is another FAN common to the entire cabinet powered by the mother board itself.
Understandably increased power of processing comes with a penalty on heat dissipation. The same kind of PCs are getting used in offices and homes. Where as in office we have the luxury of Air-conditioner for the PCs, many might not have it at home. Is it that it would have some bearing on the life and performance of the PCs. One factor to consider while comparing is the usage ofcourse.
Just curious to know how this heat dissipation is tackled in Laptops. Sure this must be a research area. Because increasing the number of fans for increasing the processing power may not work out to be an optimum solution for laptops. Anybody has any info on this ? I haven’t yet had an opportunity to look into the inside of a laptop.