System heat

All electronic devices produce heat. Some do so more than others, and cooling must reduce the heat effect to avoid failure or intermittent problems. The electronic components found inside a server (mostly on the motherboard) that produce significant heat include microprocessors, graphics processing units (GPUs), chipsets, RAM, and voltage regulator modules (VRMs). Of these, microprocessors (CPUs) and GPUs produce most of the heat inside a server. High heat conditions or a condition called thermal stress can affect the service life or operations of electronic components. Physics tells us that when things get hot, they expand, and when they cool off, they contract. Any electronic component that continuously goes through heat and cool cycles, meaning expansion and contraction, is stressed, which can lead to performance issues. The bigger the difference between how hot...