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  2. Computer fan control - Wikipedia

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    A fan controller with LEDs indicating fan status and potentiometers and switches to control fan speeds. Another method, popular with PC hardware enthusiasts, is the manual fan speed controller. They can be mounted in an expansion slot or a 5.25" or 3.5" drive bay or come built into a computer's case. Using switches or knobs, attached fans can ...

  3. Computer fan - Wikipedia

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    ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti, a PCI Express 3.0 ×16 graphics card, using two fans for cooling Used to cool the heatsink of the graphics processing unit or the memory on graphics cards . These fans were not necessary on older cards because of their low power dissipation, but most modern graphics cards designed for 3D graphics and gaming need their ...

  4. System Management Mode - Wikipedia

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    An alternate software system which usually resides in the computer's firmware, or a hardware-assisted debugger, is then executed with high privileges. It was first released with the Intel 386SL . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] While initially special SL versions were required for SMM, Intel incorporated SMM in its mainline 486 and Pentium processors in 1993.

  5. Computer cooling - Wikipedia

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    A finned air cooled heatsink with fan clipped onto a CPU, with a smaller passive heatsink without fan in the background A 3-fan heatsink mounted on a video card to maximize cooling efficiency of the GPU and surrounding components Commodore 128DCR computer's switch-mode power supply, with a user-installed 60 mm cooling fan.

  6. Power supply unit (computer) - Wikipedia

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    In ATX-style systems, the front-panel power switch provides only a control signal to the power supply and does not switch the mains AC voltage. This low-voltage control allows other computer hardware or software to turn the system on and off.

  7. Noctua (company) - Wikipedia

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    Noctua is an Austrian computer hardware manufacturer of CPU coolers and computer fans with a primary focus on the enthusiast market. The company's inception occurred in 2005 through a joint venture partnership between the Austrian company Rascom Computer distribution Ges.m.b.H., established in August 2000, [2] and the Taiwanese cooling specialist Kolink International Corporation.

  8. Heat sink - Wikipedia

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    Although the pin-fin has 194 cm 2 surface area while the straight-fin has 58 cm 2, the temperature difference between the heat-sink base and the ambient air for the pin fin is 50 °C, but for the straight-fin it was 44 °C, or 6 °C better than the pin fin. Pin fin heat sink performance is significantly better than straight fins when used in ...

  9. Laptop cooler - Wikipedia

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    An active laptop cooler. A laptop/notebook cooler, cooling pad, cooler pad or chill mat is an accessory for laptop computers intended to reduce their operating temperature when the laptop is unable to sufficiently cool itself. Laptop coolers are intended to protect both the laptop from overheating and the user from suffering heat related ...