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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.
A good temperature for your desktop computer's CPU is around 120℉ when idle, and under 175℉ when under stress.
Cooling system of an Asus GTX 650 graphics card; three heat pipes are visible. Heat dissipation is an unavoidable by-product of electronic devices and circuits. [10] In general, the temperature of the device or component will depend on the thermal resistance from the component to the environment, and the heat dissipated by the component.
CPU fan Thermalright Le Grand Macho RT functioning. Used to cool the CPU (central processing unit) heatsink. Effective cooling of a concentrated heat source such as a large-scale integrated circuit requires a heatsink, which may be cooled by a fan; [3] use of a fan alone will not prevent overheating of the small chip.
The temperatures used in immersion cooling are determined by the highest temperature at which the devices being immersed can reliably operate. For servers this temperature range is typically between 15 and 65 °C (59 and 149 °F); [6] however, in ASIC-based crypto mining devices, this range is often extended up to 75 °C. [7]
By cooling the CPU below what is possible with traditional forced-air convection or water cooling systems, but preventing the temperature from falling below ambient room temperature, H 2 C is advertised as extending CPU life while eliminating the risk of humidity condensation.
Underclocking can also be performed on graphics card processor's GPUs, usually with the aim of reducing heat output. For instance, it is possible to set a GPU to run at lower clock rates when performing everyday tasks (e.g. internet browsing and word processing), thus allowing the card to operate at lower temperature and thus lower, quieter fan speeds.
The temperature of liquid nitrogen can readily be reduced to its freezing point −210 °C (−346 °F; 63 K) by placing it in a vacuum chamber pumped by a vacuum pump. [2] Liquid nitrogen's efficiency as a coolant is limited by the fact that it boils immediately on contact with a warmer object, enveloping the object in an insulating layer of ...