Your computer needs a fan.
Every computer has certain basic parts inside, such as the motherboard, RAM, hard drive and one or more fans. Fans are on virtually every computer and are crucial to the computer's operation.
Types
Computers use three of the main types of fans: axial, centrifugal and crossflow. Axial fans are the most common in household computers and they're nearly always the type used for chip fans.
Purpose
Computers get hot while they run because of the electrical activity in them. Fans work to cool the heated components, such as computer chips and keep air circulating within a computer so the system does not crash and the hardware does not melt.
Location
A chip fan sits on, or just over, a processor in a computer, most commonly the central processing unit (CPU) and the graphics processing unit (GPU). The CPU and GPU are two of the most important and hardest-working parts of a computer, and consequently they get hot.
Significance
A chip fan is usually an axial fan, and it is in a computer to cool the processing units. Neither desktop nor laptop computers can function without a fan or a comparable cooling method.
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