what is heat management

what is heat management in computer

Heat management

Heat is a major factor. At first you might think why a hardware troubleshooter is ever careful about the heat inside the computer. May be your computer runs 1/2 hours a day, not even 7 days a week. But that is not the general case. Primarily computers specially in university, research center and corporate service provider run for very long time.

Inside the computer there are components such as CPUs, graphics processors, drive motors and power supply circuits. Heat has adverse effects on these components. For each of these components the manufacturers set the maximum operating temperature. In most cases, beyond 80°C they may stop normal functioning. Common symptoms are hard disk read/write error, unreasonably slow response time for each program.

Sources of Heat:

• The Processor and Graphic card cause the maximum heating in a computer.

• Each component experiences higher temperature with increasing load (i.e. more tasks at a time).

• In gaming the graphics processing unit (GPU) do a lot of operations that generate heat higher than CPU.

• Hard drive is another major contributing factor for generating heat.

• Optical Disk Drives also generate excessive heat for reading and writing from and into CDs and DVDs.

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