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The combination heat sink and cooling fan is sometimes called a?
The combination heat sink and cooling fan is sometimes called a cooler.
How can you tell if it's uses active or passive cooling by looking at the CPU?
The difference is that Passive cooling is just a heat sink that dissipates the heat into the air without the help of a fan. Active cooling is when you have a heat sink and a fan is directly blowing/sucking air thru the heat sink to cool it. The fan does not have to be on the heat sink as with some dell/gateway computers. The fan is on the plastic shroud, which in turn fits right over the heat sink. Water cooling and phase-change cooling is also considered active cooling.
What is a combination heat sink and cooling fan?
It's quite literally a combined heat sink and fan. It's used to help keep a CPU -- Central Processing Unit -- from over heating.
What is fansink?
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 )
Diffrentiate between active heatsink and passive heatsink?
In a active heatsink system you have both a heatsink and a fan thus for the most part an active heatsink cools better with one exception. Should the fan fail the active heatsink will quickly overheat. Passive heatsinks relay on transferring heat without the aid of a fan. The advantage here is that a passive heatsink is fail proof and uses 0 electricity, however passive heatsinks don't typical cool as well. Passive heatsinks work great for supporting chips and RAM cooling. They are also found in servers because of the no fail aspect. EnzoTech produces some passive heatsinks you can read a bit more about them here: http://electricalninja.com/
How does a processor liberate heat?
Most computer processors liberate heat by mounting a metallic heat sink and fan on the processor itself. Gamers' systems may however feature liquid cooling.
How do you cool CPU?
With a heat sink and fan.
What is the job of the cooling fan and heat sink?
They're used to help keep the processor on the motherboard inside the Central Processing Unit (CPU) from overheating. Both are necessary: the fan actually protects all the devices inside the CPU from overheating, while the heat sink is used especially for the processor as it gets overheated quickly.
What are the Types of fan and heatsink?
your moma is my heat sink
What component is under the fan and heat sink?
A central processing unit (CPU), is under the fan and heat sink. The processor creates a lot of heat as it works, and would soon burn-out if not cooled.
What is the function of a motherboard heat sink?
A heat sink in a computer is a large piece of metle that is attachesd to electronic components(like the processor, hard drive etc.) It obsorbs and disipates waste heat from the devices so that they don't over heat.
What is a fan and heat sink?
A heatsink is a piece of metal that sits on top of your computers CPU (and also some other components) that helps conduct heat away from it, the fan you're referring to sits on top of the heat sink and moves the heat away and (ideally) out of the case.
