Alpha PAL6035 vs Zalman CNPS3100-Gold (1/4)
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Heat in computers have always posed problems to a certain degree. Preliminary electronic computers using vacuum tubes such as ENIAC could not run for more than 30 minutes easily due to burnouts of overheating tubes. Mainframe computers usually operated in air-conditioned rooms. Some modern super-computers operate suspended in a case filled with inert liquid coolant.
However, personal computers traditionally had few heat-related problems because the components never ran fast or hot compared to the state-of-the-art technologies that existed at the time. Few, if any, systems with heatsinks on a 286 or 386 chips appeared, for the chips were only warm to the touch during normal operation.


Where does all this lead to? Need for better and better HSFs. Some overclockers go so far as to install thermoelectric modules(a.k.a. Peltiers) or water cooling on the CPU, and a few extremists even attempts to dip the system in liquid nitrogen to obtain ultimate cooling. This cannot be the solution for everyone, though, because installation of such things without good background knowledge and caution can ruin the whole system. Companies like VapoChill offers powerful cooling solution by effectively bringing in a small refrigerator into the computer case. This method may be safer, but this is out of reach for many, because the cost is too high.
And so, in today's article, I have compared two heatsinks deemed to be among the most powerful HSF solutions out there.
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I am back with something for you to read upon! This time, it's a review/comparison of two high-performance heatsinks, Alpha PAL6035 and Zalman CNPS3100-Gold. I've been meaning to put up a review of Alpha PAL6035 a few months ago, but I think the wait has
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Monitor for a Wearable What is missing in this picture? That's right. This computer did not have a dedicated monitor, and had to borrow the monitor from the Portable Athlon. You'll also notice that a Zalman CNPS3100G (review) was sitting
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