The computer heat sink

The function of the computer heat sink is to absorb the heat generated by various chips inside the integrated circuit, and then radiate it into the chassis or outside the chassis to ensure the temperature of the computer components is normal. Most heat sinks contact the surface of the heat-generating component to absorb heat, and then transfer heat to a distant place, such as the air inside the chassis, and then the chassis transmits the hot air to the outside of the chassis to complete the heat dissipation of the computer.

There are many types of heat sinks. CPUs, graphics cards, motherboard chipsets, hard disks, chassis, power supplies, and even optical drives and memory require heat sinks. These different heat sinks cannot be mixed, and the most common one is the CPU heatsink.

According to the way the heat is removed from the heat sink, the heat sink can be divided into active heat dissipation and passive heat dissipation. The former is commonly used for air-cooled radiators, while the latter is commonly used for heat sinks. Further subdivided heat dissipation methods can be divided into air cooling, heat pipe, liquid cooling, semiconductor refrigeration, compressor refrigeration and so on.

Generally a computer must have at least three heat sinks. The first one is the heat sink of the CPU, the second one is the heat sink of the main power supply, called the heat sink, and the third one is the heat sink on the north bridge, also called the heat sink. These are the CPU, motherboard and host power supply.

The economic conditions are relatively good, as well as the radiator fan on the discrete graphics card, or the heat sink, some hard disks and heat sinks, the memory also has a special heat sink, and the chassis is equipped with a heat sink.

This article is from ALLICDATA ELECTRONICS LIMITED.