Heatsinks are the unsung heroes of cooling down your PC, as they prevent overheating by transferring heat away from important components. The CPU and GPU can generate a lot of heat, especially ...

Add a new processor and cooling system to your PC Open the processor socket on the motherboard. Align the processor and the ...

[Paul Stacey] sent us his solution of pairing up a CPU cooler kit with a beer fridge. The CPU heat sink is cut out of a liquid cooling kit and discarded. In its place a loop of plastic tubing ...

Intel has been showing off its direct cooling experiments, with waterblocks fitted directly to its Intel Core Ultra and Xeon ...

Air coolers are what you can consider a traditional CPU cooler. They use a heatsink that's typically made of a very thermally-conductive metal such as copper or aluminum to draw heat away from the ...

A component that draws heat away from a CPU chip and other hot-running chips such as a graphics processor (GPU). See heat pipe and notebook cooler. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.