Every year a Science Fair competition is held in the school. The top Science Fair Projects in every science class are selected and rated by judges. This year I decided to do a more complex project. For those that are interested in my Science Fair Project, here is a picture of the poster and the 1st place medal.

My Science Fair Project is about computers. Since today’s computers and laptops are smaller and equipped with faster multi-processors, I tried to find out if replacing the original cooling system will lower the temperature of the CPU and improve computer’s performance. I tested with an Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo processor that has a speed of 2.4 GHz. The testing materials are a standard Intel heatsink and fan, as well as an aftermarket heatsink and fan. Along with the heatsinks and fans, I tested two different thermal compounds that consist of either silver or silicone. The CPU temperatures were measured during idle, loaded, overclocked idle, and overclocked loaded.

You can read the lab report of my Science Fair project in PDF format here.