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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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a silent system, a good fan will more than suffice.

EXAM TIP In some instances, you can create a system that has no fan for

the CPU, what’s called fanless cooling. Aside from mobile devices (like an

Apple iPad) that have no fans, the term can be very misleading. The Xeon

CPUs powering the servers in my office, for example, only have heat sinks

with no fans. On the other hand, they have ducts directly to the case fans,

which serve the same function as an active CPU fan. So, go figure.

See also the “Beyond A+” section at the end of this chapter for interesting

passive cooling developments.

Once you have a heat-sink and fan assembly sorted out, you need to

connect it to the motherboard. To determine the orientation of the heat-sink

and fan assembly, check the power cable from the fan. Make sure it can

easily reach the three- or four-wire standout on the motherboard (see Figure

3-42). If it can’t, rotate the heat sink until it can. (Check the motherboard

manual if you have trouble locating the CPU fan power standout.)

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