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Home » Motherboard
Small Details on Motherboards
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Tutorials Last Updated: May 6, 2005
Page: 5 of 9
Real-time pricing for ASUS SABERTOOTH-990FX.
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3 TUF Series ATX AMD DDR3 1800 Motherboards Asus SABERTOOTH Electronics Usually ships in 24 hours
Amazon: $184.99 Newegg: $184.99
TigerDirect: $174.99 CompUSA: $174.99

Cooling (Cont’d)

Like we said, adding a colored LED on the chipset fan is just an aesthetic feature. Some motherboards manufacturers are really working on solutions to improve the motherboard cooling. ABIT, Chaintech and ECS have solutions to pull the heat generated on the voltage regulator region outside the computer case.

ECS Cooling
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Figure 10: Cooling solution by ECS.

ABIT Cooling
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Figure 11: The chipset fan from this ABIT motherboard is installed in a way that it also helps on the motherboard cooling.

ABIT Cooling
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Figure 12: This cooling solution from ABIT removes the heat generated by the voltage regulator transistors.

Chaintech Cooling
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Figure 13: Cooling solution from Chaintech, same idea from above but using heat-pipes.

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