• DocumentCode
    1476913
  • Title

    Chill Out

  • Author

    Balandin, Alexander A.

  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    34
  • Lastpage
    39
  • Abstract
    Heat is one of the worst enemies of electronics. Sit on the sofa with your laptop and you quickly feel the heat on your lap. Often though, overheating can be hard to diagnose. You may notice random errors occurring no matter what program you\´re running. This is especially true if you use your computer to play advanced video games, which can really tax the microprocessor and the graphics card. If your machine frequently experiences fatal errors or "the blue screen of death" on such occasions, chances are it has thermal management problems. And overheating doesn\´t just degrade a computer\´s performance; it can also shorten its useful life.
  • Keywords
    cooling; thermal management (packaging); chip cooling; electronics; overheating; thermal management; Books; Computer errors; Computer graphics; DVD; Games; Microprocessors; Portable computers; Thermal degradation; Thermal management; Video recording;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2009.5267996
  • Filename
    5267996