Active cooling on CPUs started to appear on the Intel 80486, and by 1997 was standard on all desktop processors. In the IBM PC compatible market, the computer's power supply unit (PSU) almost always uses an exhaust fan to expel warm air from the PSU. A user can even supplement this function with additional cooling components or connect a manual fan controller with knobs that set fans to different speeds. ![]() A computer's BIOS can control the speed of the built-in fan system for the computer. Fan control is not always an automatic process. Fans attached to components are usually used in combination with a heat sink to increase the area of heated surface in contact with the air, thereby improving the efficiency of cooling. To cool these components, fans are used to move heated air away from the components and draw cooler air over them. ![]() ![]() While in earlier personal computers it was possible to cool most components using natural convection ( passive cooling), many modern components require more effective active cooling.
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