Building a PC isn’t easy for everyone, but if you’re someone who’s planning on doing it soon or just a PC enthusiast who’s passionate about PCMR, then this is the perfect blog for you. In this column, ...

This post is a quick sequel of my previous article jam-packed with my personal experiences and observations while I was fiddling with standard 4-wire PC cooling fans. Today I will be talking about the ...

If your computer's running a little loud for your tastes, it's probably because your fans are running at full speed—even if they don't need to be. Here are a few ways to manage your fan's speed so ...

I just bought an ASUS M4A785-M AMD 785G Socket AM3 motherboard to replace a bad board in a free HP I got. I transfered the CPU, heatsink and fan onto the new board and noticed that the fan connector ...

I'm building a PC for the first time 10+ years, and I have a noob problem. I can't find the right case fan connection on my motherboard. I'm using the Gigabyte Z690i ITX motherboard. According to the ...

CPU_FAN and CPU_OPT are entirely different and serve distinct purposes in the context of a computer cooling system. CPU_FAN or CPU Fan Header is the primary 4-pin fan header on a motherboard, and it ...

Many of the chips inside a typical PC generate a lot of heat and require some form of active cooling to remain stable. Powerful recent hardware like Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3000-series graphics cards and ...

The CPU is the brain of any computer system, handling millions of calculations every second. All that computer power generates heat, though – enough to disable the delicate electronics. A CPU cooling ...