What is the purpose of heat sink in laptops?

Asked By Umme Rabab Musheer 0 points N/A Posted on - 10/04/2011

Many brands have captured the market for PCs, Tablets, Laptops and etc. Dell is famous for many things in the market, but does dell have the greatest heat sink?

What is the basic purpose of using the bigger heat sink?

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Answered By bernard dross 5 points N/A #86952

What is the purpose of heat sink in laptops?

The basic purpose of the heat sink is to absorb all the heat of the system or CPU, so that the CPU may not get the high temperature. Most of the computer parts are temperature sensitive, so cooling is a big issue. What a heat sink does, it provides a large surface area to the heat generated. Which results in large air contact and because of which the CPU does not gain a high temperature. Air can flow through the heat sink which causes a cooling effect. Laptops are too compact so cooling is a big issue with them. 

That is why a heat sink is most important part of the CPU and the laptop.

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Answered By Genebraldo Regio 0 points N/A #86953

What is the purpose of heat sink in laptops?

Valuable question, Heat is a common thing for every machine, that is wasting energy and couldn’t stop. When machine running with voltage and current generates heat, heat is wasting power and it affect to electronic items badly.

So we should remove heat before damaging. Heat sink absorbs heat quickly and waste it. So without cooling and heat sink, PC and laptops are dead. So heat sink is a most valuable for protecting devices from heat.

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