Why can't they be separated? What's the purpose of the heat sink? Why always side by side? Answers as detailed as possible pls.
2007-04-17 03:49:14 · 3 answers · asked by skandrake2000 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
CPU and GPU are processing centers of the computer.. CPU does all general purpose calculations and takes decisions.. GPU does all graphics intensive calculations...
They do so much work that they get heated up.. so to disperse the heat to the surrounding heat sinks are used...
(technically heat is generated due to high frequency, which in turn causes lot of energy to be used up... if you even go deeper you'l find that heat energy is released because the current flowing deep insie the CPU and GPU semiconductor chip gets resistance all over it way..)..
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if the heat is not properly dispersed ande CPU/GPU's temperature kept under certain limits.. their propertie would change due to excess heat.. which will ultimately damage the processors..
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thats why they ask you to get a good quality heat snk for your processors..
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now the second question...
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they are not generally placed due to any reason..
they are placed near because there is space to place them..
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if you buy a graphics card.. you'll notice that the GPU is on tha card.. but your processor still remain there..
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but in a sense they should be kept as near as possible..
not only those two..
Rather every component of the computer setup .. which you can see over the mother-board should be placed as near as possible..
this is because.. with increase in the length of wring ...
1. the potential maximum achievable speed of your system goes down..
2.. chances of electrical signals getting distorted becomes more...
3.. more copper is required to wire the circuit.,..( :D)..
Actually the problem is that with increasing frequency of the processors.. we've reached the limit.. there are physical laws which decide the feasible length of wires between different components to allow as to work in given frequency range...
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higher frequencies tends to suffer more loss in lengthier wires...
SCIENCE..... is the FATE...
2007-04-17 04:03:54 · answer #1 · answered by thekillerkat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has to do with the layout of the motherboard, a heat sink is something that sits and absorbs the heat letting it flow up away from the chip and into the fan to be blown out,
2007-04-17 03:53:37 · answer #2 · answered by megasparks0101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are NOT. GPU is on the video card, and CPU is on the mainboard.
You are probably mistaking the heatsink/fan on the chipset for the GPU.
2007-04-17 03:57:39 · answer #3 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋