Talk:Computer fan

WHy is the computer fan called a muffin fan?

Because the gods ordained it to be so.

Because it is smaller than the older pancake fan? --Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:51, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge

I'm hereby proposing that computer cooling fan should be merged into computer fan (this direction of merge because a computer fan is always for cooling, with the former name feeling a bit redundant). -- Northgrove 09:44, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. There was a lot of overlap between the articles, so the result is much slimmer and hopefully better. I've stuffed some references in there too for good measure. ~ Matticus78 19:57, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Info about MAG LEV fans

Can anyone post info about hours of life, mtbf, if they produce more/less noise than the others, etc?.

Dates

"Active cooling on CPUs started to appear on the retail Intel Pentium, and by 1997 was standard on all desktop processors" False, it appeared on 486 processors, so it was standard by 1992 more or less.

--Licurgo 05:09, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Pentium was introduced in 1993, and the retail boxed ones came with fansinks, but there were plenty of 486s and Pentiums that used only passive cooling for some time after its introduction. I stripped out a few old units some months back at work - machines from 1995 or so that still used passive cooling (heatsinks without fans), so active cooling clearly wasn't universal then. There were 486DX4s that were actively cooled, but that wasn't released until 1994. Active cooling wasn't standard on all new desktop PC processors until some time later. If you can find a reliable source that supports these earlier dates, by all means make the change to the article, but at present the reference for these dates seems pretty reliable. 85.210.140.133 01:46, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pros / Cons

Would like to see a section mentioning merits and drawbacks of fans vs. other cooling. Came here looking for info about (quieter) alternatives but none to be found, not even a link. (OK I guess "see also: computer cooling" counts, but sometimes a bit stronger nudge in the right direction is helpful, especially when one is researching a topic with which he/she is not farmiliar...)

Orientation

The article describes fan bearings as horizontal or vertical but the meaning is with reference to the (plane of the track of the) blades, not the bearing axis.

It would be clearer to write of vertical (or horizontal) axis bearings or of bearings with the shaft vertical (or horizontal). --Nh5h (talk) 11:30, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Connectors

The usual fan connectors don't look anything like the Molex connectors in the Wikipedia article on Molex connectors.