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The Coolest Install two cooling fans in your PC. |
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Quiet Your PC: Easy Ways to Cut Computer Noise The main sources of noise are motors and spinning components such as the hard drive, CPU fan, case cooling fans, and power supply fan. Tips on quieting your computer. |
PC World
October 2005
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Quiet, Please! Cut Your PC's Clatter the Cool Way Simple tricks and tweaks can keep your PC's noisemakers under wraps while keeping its temperature cool. |
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December 20, 2006
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Top Tips for a Cleaner, Faster Computer Dirt and dust can damage your rig and hurt its performance. Fight back! |
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Hardware Tips: A Cool Breeze Keeps Your PC's Innards From Frying Here's how to beat the PC heat, make the most of your AGP graphics card, and solve mouse conflicts... |
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Spin Control Ceiling fans look sharp and produce a welcome cool breeze on hot summer days. But... |
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April 2009
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Big Ass Fans Move Massive Amounts of Air Efficiently When it comes to heating and cooling large rooms efficiently, bigger fans are better. |
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February 1, 2006 |
Spontaneous Reboots Overheating, power-supply problems, or bad memory can cause a computer to spontaneously reboot. |
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December 25, 2007
Loyd Case |
Keeping Cool Whenever you stuff a PC into a tiny space without adequate ventilation, heat can become a problem. |
Popular Mechanics
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How to Quiet Your Loud Personal Computer As with many aspects of the technology world, there is a modder subculture dedicated to quiet desktop computing. |
CIO
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Low-Heat Laptops You won't be able to use your laptop as a portable coffee warmer anymore, if technology from Sandia National Laboratories goes mainstream. |
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May 2007
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Temperature's Rising: Designers Face Myriad Options to Cool Electronic Systems More electronic and electro-optic systems mean more electric power, and increasing heat that engineers must get rid of. Today's choices include convection, conduction, and liquid-cooling options. Tomorrow's choices will be more complex. |
InternetNews
July 7, 2010 |
IBM Testing Hot Water to Cool Servers IBM researchers in Switzerland are standing server cooling on its head, using water as warm as 140 degrees to cool processors that have an unusually high safe operating temperature. |
InternetNews
August 15, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
A Mighty Wind's a Blowin' at Purdue Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new method of semiconductor cooling that could improve the cooling rate inside computers by as much as 250 percent. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
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IBM Tests Heating Homes With Data-Center Waste Heat Cooling computers with hot water is a step toward zero-emission data centers |
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September 2008
Mike Allen |
How to Adjust Your Car's A/C for Max Fuel Economy By adjusting the fan and temperature speed, you may be able to get better gas mileage. |
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10 Ways to Beat the Heat Staying cool this summer doesn't necessarily mean you have to pay a fortune to keep the air-conditioning running day and night. |
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April 2003
Tom W. Jackson |
HVAC Zoning Controls Homeowners would like to increase their comfort level while conserving energy. An excellent method to do this is through zoning. |
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June 14, 2008
Tom Mainelli |
How to Build a Superfast, Superquiet PC, Part 1 Building a PC that is quiet, fast, and affordable. |
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Hit the Ceiling Installing an energy-efficient ceiling fan increases airflow and reduces cooling costs. |
InternetNews
July 11, 2007
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IBM Big on Cooling The Coolers Cooler chips are nice, but IBM is helping put the air conditioning chillers on ice with a new cooling system. |
Popular Mechanics
June 23, 2008
Joseph Truini |
5 Money-Saving Ways to Stay Cool This Summer There's a perfect summer storm brewing, and it's going to dramatically increase the cost of keeping our homes cool. |
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David Needle |
Be Cool and Save Your Data Center HP says a holistic approach to energy savings in the data center will cut costs. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2006 |
Heat Sinks for Low-Airflow Conditions Advanced Thermal Solutions has introduced maxiFLOW heat sinks for cooling ball grid arrays and other hot components in the restricted air flow conditions typical of today's condensed electronic packages. |
PC World
December 2004
Anne B. McDonald |
Future Tech: A Room That Knows You 'Smart Dust' sensors might instantly adjust a room's light and temperature to your liking. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2005
Ram Rajan |
Solving thermal-management challenges in military and aerospace applications Higher system performance -- often coupled with faster and hotter processors, and denser packaging -- can be two major nemeses for the chassis designer. |
Linux Journal
December 1, 2002
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Letters Great support from Los Alamos Computers... Hooray for AOLserver and ACS... LJ T-Shirt's Asian Tour... etc. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2004
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Helping Electronics Keep Their Cool New thermal-management technology doesn't need cooling fans, say Georgia Tech researchers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005
John McHale |
Purdue Researchers Create Miniature Cooling Device Mechanical engineers have developed techniques for modifying household refrigeration technology with small devices to cool future weapons systems and computer chips. |
Wired
March 2003
Cory Doctorow |
Maximum Overdrive Feel the need for processing speed? Welcome to the world of overclocking, where silicon lives fast, dies young, and leaves a good-looking corpse. |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2005
M. David Stone |
It's Rattling A rattling sound from a cooling fan usually indicates that bearings are wearing out in older computers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
Hot components and cool enclosures Systems architects and integrators are tackling the issues of military electronics survivability with clever chassis designs. |
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The Motley Fool
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IBM to Chips: Cool It! Big Blue's new chip-cooling technique could keep Moore's Law on track. IBM's system, while not yet ready for commercial production, is reportedly so efficient that officials expect it will double cooling efficiency. |
This Old House
May 1999
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Fan Fair How to choose and install the right ceiling fan. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2006 |
Heat Sinks Deliver High Performance in Low-Airflow Conditions Advanced Thermal Solutions is offering maxiFLOW heat sinks for cooling ball grid arrays (BGAs) and other hot components in restricted air-flow conditions. |
Food Engineering
January 10, 2006 |
Air heat exchanger Air/air heat exchanger provides cooling and environmental protection in industrial enclosures requiring internal cabinet cooling using ambient air. |
PC World
August 2001
Stan Miastkowski |
Upgrade Guide: Keep It Powered, Keep It Cool Keep you upgraded PC fully powered and properly cooled, step-by-step... |
This Old House
November 2007
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Geothermal Heat Pump For the ultimate in comfort and energy conservation, start by digging a hole. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2006
John McHale |
Purdue Researchers Look at Nanotechnology to Reduce Computer-Chip Heating University researchers are looking to mitigate electronic systems heating problems through the use of carbon nanotubes. They have created carpets of microscopic nanotubes to enhance the performance of heat sinks to help keep future chips from overheating. |
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Danny Lipford |
Calling in an HVAC Pro Tips for dealing with the pros who maintain and repair your heating and cooling systems... |
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August 2002
Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Will Overclocking Give an Old CPU New Pep? Decide whether pushing your CPU past its stated speed would be worth the effort... Tips on mouse drivers and cleaning your mouse... |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2004
Cade Metz |
Get Out the Mote Sprinkled generously, "smart dust" wireless sensors get the message across. A form of the technology has already reached the marketplace. |
BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004
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Those Superfast Chips: Too Darn Hot Cooling today's fastest chips is becoming a challenge in even the biggest desktop towers. |
PC World
July 2002
Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Give Your Ears a Break -- Put Your PC on the QT Format dilemma: NTFS or FAT32?... Find the right LCD resolution... USB 2.0/FireWire on one adapter... |
PC World
June 14, 2007
Kirk Steers |
The Cheapskate's Guide to Supercharging Your PC Overclock your CPU, upgrade your graphics, and swap out your motherboard to give your PC a boost. |
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March 2001
Stan Miastkowski |
Upgrade Guide: Soup Up Your PC's Processor Install a new processor, step-by-step... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2006
J.R. Wilson |
The great cooling dilemma: conduction, convection, or liquid Today's most advanced cooling technologies are starting to take center stage. |
