Regardless of whether a fan is mounted to your central processing unit, your case or sitting on your floor, its purpose is the same. Fans change how air flows, more effectively moving it from one ...

Fan placement is an important component in your system’s cooling. The quantity, positioning, and orientation of fans affects overall system performance, noise levels, and how often you need to clean ...

One of my favorite things about PC hardware is that it’s always getting better. Every year I get to enjoy the latest CPUs, GPUs, and memory advances and watch those numbers go up in turn. But there’s ...

In this guide, we'll show you how to set up PC fans, and take you through the principles of PC airflow and cooling. From knowing which way round to mount your fans, to where you should put the ...

While seemingly basic compared to the other components, your computer's fan actually plays a massive role in maintaining the system's optimal performance. It does so by regulating the internal ...

The two best ways to rate the performance of a PC case are how well it allows air to flow through, and how well it contains noise. As the name suggests, the latest tower-chassis effort from NZXT ...

CPU_FAN and CPU_OPT are entirely different and serve distinct purposes in the context of a computer cooling system. CPU_FAN or CPU Fan Header is the primary 4-pin fan header on a motherboard, and it ...

Typically, CPU fan noises are heard when you reboot your PC (the whirring sound you may have heard upon startup) and it goes on to decline as the startup process completes. The purpose of fans on your ...