BASIC PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN HEAT TRANSFER AND COOLING RELATED TO PROCESSORS

This site intend to try to provide everybody the basic principles involved in heat transfer and cooling related to processors. These principles are not particular and limited to CPU, they can be applied to any device that produce heat, but here we will only consider CPU.

The scientific background necessary to understand the articles has been reduced to its minimum, trying to keep the coherence of them as well as to address topics - and myths, untruth, ... - frequently seen on forums and sites. To this end, many simplifications and approximations are done relatively to hard theory that could be found in literature. Nevertheless, if there is demand, some additional details could be added.

The table of contents that you will see on the left frame allows to navigate through different sections, but for a very first reading you better follow links at the end of each pages. I tried to do my best to write articles that are at the same time precise, complete and easy to understand, but nobody's perfect so feel free to mail me :)