to the actual heat sink (copper base plate with welded-on copper ribs). A temperature-controlled radial fan blows the dissipated heat out of the case. If the CPU load is minimal or even nil, the fan will stop and leave the cooling up to the heat pipe and heat...

fin cooler with a heat pipe system (HPS). The former is for cooling the GPU and Northbridge, while the HPS keeps the CPU from developing heat stroke. The fan for transporting heat out of the case is found on the left-hand edge of the aluminum cooler. It also...

from Dell to the test. Does NVIDIA have what it takes to recapture the top slot from ATI?. Dell has chosen to go with a small, two fan configuration to remove heat from the heat pipe out of the rear and left corner of the notebook. At times, this back part...

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against magnetic forces. It also extends the cooling surface of the system. On the underside of the sheet is a heat pipe that distributes part of the heat from the processor to the entire surface. The heat pipe is in contact with the top of the copper cooler...

Centrino (above) and the Turion 64 (below) notebooks. The Turion 64 fan in the HP Compaq nx6125 blows heat away from the Northbridge. In the MSI 635's cooling system, only the heat pipe is made of copper. Though a cooling system made completely of copper will...

three pounds either. The cooling solutions are simple and effective. There is a heatsink over the Northbridge, a simple single heat pipe leading away from the CPU, and a dual heat pipe system on the GPU. This system has much better real...

another company that aims at the top end of the Media Center PC market is Niveus Media, which offers two different packages. Both are built around the same kind of silent, fan less heat pipe technologies that Hush also uses in its designs. The Niveus Ranier...

X700.. Inside the case we can see the cooling solution for the Intel Pentium M 770, as well as a glimpse of the heat pipe going to the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600. The radiator on the dissipation side of the heat pipe is made with copper fins, with a radial...

test, we finally closed up the case. That's when we ran into our first small problem. Not every graphics card is narrow enough to prevent vertical clearance problems (the wraparound heat pipe is the problem here). We initially chose a fanless graphics...