I'm Sayan Ghosh and I'm a contributor from Canada. I'd describe myself as an amateur photographer who loves storytelling and trying different street food. When not working, I'm on my custom-built PC, ...

For a CPU, or processor, to maintain a safe operating temperature, it needs a CPU fan. When properly installed, a CPU fan stays in constant contact with the CPU's metal plate so all the heat generated ...

Fan Control is a great tool for doing exactly what its name suggests, giving you complete control over your system's fans, including your CPU and GPU fans, plus any water cooling pumps that you may ...

Spend enough time around PC builders and PC building forums, and you’ll learn pretty quickly that the direction of a case or CPU cooler fan matters. When a fan’s positioned for intake, the intent is ...

We publish a plethora of PC build guides here at PCWorld. In the past few months alone, we’ve covered how to build a quiet, energy-efficient PC, how to assemble a powerhouse Sandy Bridge-E computer, ...

So I built out a new box some months ago with the help of the fine Ars folks and it's been running great until recently.. for some reason the fans seem to randomly ramp up high for a few seconds then ...

Whether you’re upgrading your PC or building a new rig, you need a way to keep things cool. Any component—be it a graphics card, motherboard, or processor—can overheat and throttle performance. Even ...

Normal fan ports are only 1 amp, so I don't typically like running more than one fan per. That's only 5 watts, after all. Normal fan ports are 12V, not 5V. A lot of 12V fans won't even start at 5V, ...

Installing a CPU cooler used to be an extremely easy and straightforward operation until the dawn of third-party coolers. Previously, processors used to come with a stock air cooler, as they did not ...