The computer fan in your desktop PC or laptop is there to keep things cool and running smoothly. However, if you can barely hear yourself think over the cacophony of noise emanating from your computer ...

I wasn't sure where to put this. If it should go in Mobile or elsewhere, please move it. I have a laptop that's a few years old that I keep in my detached garage/workshop. Over the past month or so I ...

There's nothing more irritating than a noisy computer fan making a loud racket all day while you're trying to work or game. Here's some common solutions.

A CPU's operating temperature will rise if the cooling fan breaks, dramatically increasing the chance of hardware failure. Stock modern computer CPUs use a two-part CPU cooler that features a heatsink ...

Hewlett Packard laptops are highly portable, allowing busy professionals to easily transport an entire file cabinet's worth of data from one job site to another – but as with any laptop, this feature ...

So on one of my servers running a retailbox AMD64 chip (with the OEM AMD heatsink and fan), the fan has started failing after 6 months of continuous operation in an office environment ("office" being ...

A CPU fan is more than just a fan. It is attached to CPU with power pins/wires and a sensor that tells it how fast to run. If the CPU is heating, the sensor will make the fan run faster. As such, the ...