Introduction:

With summer baking half the country at the present moment, a lot of people are trying to keep cool. When it gets that hot, we can visit the local lakes, pools, turn on our air conditioners, sit next to the sprinklers, or visit the local mall. A little air conditioned shopping never hurt anyone.

Computers, on the other hand, can't do any of the above aside from air conditioning your room. Naturally, your electric bill will go up and you'll probably be disgusted later as you write that check to Extremely-Expensive-Energy, or whoever you pay. There are some better alternatives to cooling your computer's CPU besides AC.

A good quality CPU cooler can do the same thing and not cost near the same amount. (I can see this caught your attention a little.) Processors don't have to have a cool room to work properly. The main thing is to keep a processor under the 70 C range. If your processor is getting this hot, chances are it just keeps going till it suddenly reboots.

If you fall in to this area, try cleaning out your CPU cooler, system case fans, and make sure everything is spinning properly. Fans can stop working properly and some coolers really can't keep multi-cores as cool as we'd like. If servicing your cooler doesn't fix the common issues associated with over heating, you can do the next best thing and replace it. Allow me, if you will, to suggest the new Noctua NH-C12P CPU Cooler.

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