News Kool Solutions Chill Vent 1 at Dan's Data

Dan takes a look at a blue plastic shovel that's supposed to help your CPU temps:

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PC cooling is all about air flow. Lots of heat must be sent somewhere, and the air is where it goes. If you don't keep moving air through a PC's case, you'll soon have a computer that's a great place to sit your tea mug, but not good for much else.

Even water cooled computers aren't really cooled by water, unless they've got a pipe running from a tap on one side and into a drain on the other. The same goes for refrigerated cases. The heat always gets moved to the air, one way or another.

Air flow is not a primary consideration in the design of ordinary PCs, though. Regular computer cases are just boxes with an inlet of some sort at the front and outlets at the back. Varying numbers of inlets and outlets may have fans on them, but the air flow within the case is generally pretty darn random. There's often a lot more air flow over some parts of the computer than they need; air dawdling around low-heat expansion cards and motherboard chips would be better directed towards the CPU.

Kool Solutions' Chill Vent 1 is a simple drop-in solution for tower-cased PCs that aims to solve this problem, cheaply, and be easy to install as well

Does it do it's job? Find out here