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Arctic Cooler Chills Down My Intel Quad-Core ProcessorArctic Cooler Chills Down My Intel Quad-Core Processor
Processor cooling fans are normally as exciting as your average oil filter. So imagine my surprise when the most noteworthy item (after the processor itself) in the latest PC build project I've undertaken turned out to be. . . the cooling fan.
Alexander Wolfe
August 15, 2007
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Processor cooling fans are normally as exciting as your average oil filter. So imagine my surprise when the most noteworthy item (after the processor itself) in the latest PC build project I've undertaken turned out to be. . . the cooling fan.In pre-dual-core times, fans were mostly an afterthought. You hooked one up, and forgot about it. Sure, a PC occasionally fried, but if you weren't overclocking, there wasn't much to worry about.
These days, cooling is critical. Here's a widely circulated YouTube which presents vivid pictures of what happens when you try to run your system without the proper heat sink and fan:
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