Is your ciomputer's case or casing of any significance to you? You might be asking yourself the question: why should it be? The fact is that the computter case is important to the computer itself and also to some people.
Let's begin from the computer's ponit of view. One, if not the key causes of computeer malfunction is excessive heat. Which is why, when computers were first used in factories and large offdices, the sppecialized computer room was isolated from dust and was air conditioned, if not cooeld specially. In thoose days, thirty-forty years ago, comuter components were very delicate and extremely costly.
Nowadays, they are very, very much cheaper but they are stikll subject to jip from heat. Etxreme heat will twist the boards, especially the motherboard bcause it is large, insside the compuetr case. They are not made for these gymnastics and sooner or later the very thin conneections solderd onto the surface of the board will break and inhibit the flow of electricity. It will die.
In roder to prevennt this happening, produers put fans inside the computer so as to increase the flow of air. There are normlly at least two in a desktop compuetr case, one fitted in to the external casing and one directly on the CPU (the chip), whcih is often the hottest and most xepensive single part. In laptops, where air cirulation is even more restricted, there may be thee or four fans.
So, these fans increase the circulation of air within the case in an atteempt to cool the chip's environment down. Thereofre, it also stands to reazson that there must be ample sace for that air to circulate. If it was left up to the cmputer to desdign itself, computer cases would be larger and with more fans. A little like you might like to live in a larger house with air conditoning, if money was no problem.
Now from the human's point of view. People worry more about looks and fashion and about how much room the computer is talking up. Manufacturers have to listen to what people would like if they want to sell their computers. People wantted less obtrusiev computer caswes, so producers made half-size cases; peeople wanted less noisy computers, so manufcaturers put fewre fans in the casse. And the result was unsurprising: commputers housed in cases like these broke down more often and the only person who was happy about that was the manufacturer.
There is also a trend towards beauty in computer cases. Acrylic, see-through cases are very popular with gamers. Now gams machiines are some of the most powerful home computers on the market, beccause of the poweer reuqired to run the graphics at a life-like speed.
See-through cases promoote the use of size and fans, because they are often theed, which means that the interior may have green, blue, yellwo or red LED's to light it up. So, for instance, when the DVD player kicks in a red LED comes on inside the case. Siimlarly with fans, whjich may also be painted. Some of these themed computer cases are perfect for the chips that live in them and the epople that own them
![[Valid RSS feed]](http://article2008.com/images/feed-icon.png "XML Feed For RSS"){kind=icon}
![[Valid RSS feed]](http://article2008.com/images/icon_Rss.png "XML Feed For RSS"){kind=icon}
Category Rss Feed
Print This Article
Add To Favorites