Cooling the graphics card: These are the options

Graphics cards can get quite hot during gaming. We'll show you how to best cool your graphics cards.

This is how you can cool your graphics cards

Power-intensive applications often require additional cooling of the graphics card so that it does not overheat and is therefore damaged.

• First, a distinction must be made between active and passive cooling. Active cooling refers to the use of fans, for example, passive cooling to the use of optimized heat sinks that are supposed to remove the waste heat. A special variant of active cooling is, for example, water cooling.
• Passive cooling is less effective, but unlike fans, it does not produce any noise. Water cooling is the much quieter active cooling option.
• Active cooling is usually required for high-performance graphics cards, but weaker graphics cards can also be cooled passively.
• It is best to get advice from a specialist retailer. You will find the best graphics card cooler for your computer.

In the next practical tip you will read how to replace a graphics card in the computer.