Most NEW Processors that you buy come with a heat sink and fan. Used or refurbished ones may be missing those necessary parts. Be careful when you shop for a processor that is not brand new from a retailer.
Some heat sinks are packaged as part of a processor chip. This is done to reduce costs and potential user error.
It keeps your processor from melting. Do not run a PC without a heat sink on your processor. Processors can get to extremley high temperatures. The heat sink absorbs this heat and removes it using a fan.
Heat sinks are very important components in computers. The purpose of heat sinks in computers is to keep the computer from overheating. The heat sink removes heat from the processor, keeping the processor cool.
A heat sink is designed to disperse and transfer heat coming from a processor to an outside medium, so that it does not overheat the actual processor chip. It is usually used in conjunction with a fan to cool the device it is installed on.
The main purpose of a heat sink is to expel heat from a generating source. Heat sinks work through the process of conductive and convection heat transfer. Heat sinks are a passive form of cooling, as they have no moving parts and require no power.
Assuming you meant 'cooling fan' - It simply to prevent the processor overheating. Modern processors perform tasks at high speeds - producing vast amounts of heat. The internal circuitry of a processor includes of microscopic strands of wire. If they're not cooled by a fan - the heat generated can actually melt the circuits of the chip !
A Fan sink is a Heat sink with a fixed FAN. Heat sink's are blocks of metal, primarily used are are copper, and aluminum, that draw heat from a source ( such as your Processor, or another heat producing chip set ) and spread it across its surface area to be air cooled. A Fan sink, combine's the heat drawing of it's sink with a dedicated fan blowing air into ore out from the heat sink below it. This will significantly improve the sinks cooling power. So a processor cooler is most likely a Fan sink, but some chips surrounding it may only have a heat sink. ( Southbridge controller is usually placed near your CPU and is fitted with a black block of metal that has a lot of blades on it )
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No, heat sinks do not generate electricity on their own. They are used to dissipate heat produced by electronic components to prevent overheating and ensure proper functioning. Heat sinks transfer heat away from the component to the surrounding environment, but they do not convert heat into electricity.
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Generally, a laptop processor should NEVER generate more heat than a desktop processor. That is because a laptop processor uses less power, hence the heat generated would be lesser.
To cool the processor