Thermal characterization of a fan-sink for an AGP card

Author

Sun, X. Howard ; Panigrahy, Arunima

Author_Institution

Millennium Electron. Inc, San Jose, CA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

9-11 Mar 2004

Firstpage

125

Lastpage

129

Abstract

Thermal management of graphics cards in personal computers has become important with the increasing popularity of video intensive applications and games. This paper presents a conceptual thermal design for the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) card. Experiments, with the help by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, are used to produce and prove the concept design. The results of CFD simulations were found to be within +-10% error of the test data.

Keywords

computational fluid dynamics; computer graphic equipment; cooling; microcomputers; thermal management (packaging); AGP card; Accelerated Graphics Port; Graphics Processing Unit; computational fluid dynamics simulations; fan-sink; graphics cards; personal computers; thermal characterization; thermal management; video games; video intensive applications; Central Processing Unit; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer graphics; Cooling; Heat sinks; Temperature; Thermal engineering; Thermal management; Thermal management of electronics; Thermal resistance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium, 2004. Twentieth Annual IEEE

ISSN

1065-2221

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8363-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/STHERM.2004.1291313

Filename

1320464