Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium, 2004. Twentieth Annual IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8363-X
DOI :
10.1109/STHERM.2004.1291313
