Do external phone fans really make a difference in cooling your phone, especially when playing games
Do external phone fans really make a difference in cooling your phone, especially when playing games
Do external phone fans really make a difference in cooling your phone, especially when playing games, and is it recommended to buy them?
We live in strange technological times where mobile phones have ended up burying most portable consoles out there (still leaving the Nintendo Switch somewhere in between). But the huge differences in capacity and quality of mobile phones force us to resort to certain tricks.
One such method is to use portable fans, coolers or heat sinks. These tools only prevent the device from overheating when gaming on phones.
But, even if you have one of these fan accessories, are they really useful? Well, we explain all the pros and cons that they can have.
From the beginning, the first thing to understand is the reasons for heating devices when used, although this responds to many factors, they can be summarized as follows:
- Integrated circuits or microchips are responsible for performing the calculations of all the operations that make the execution of the program possible. On a mobile phone, it would be from booting up the Android operating system and starting it and running it to using any video game application.
- These calculations or operations require electricity to pass through the chips, which means there is a certain resistance that translates into heat. The more complex the calculations (for example, those required to run a video game), the more voltage is required and the higher the heat.
- Keep in mind that a lot of the temperatures a phone experiences depend on its specifications. Thus, a powerful phone like the Redmi K50 will be able to open video games like Genshin Impact with high graphics without overheating its circuits.
As a result of all this, processor manufacturers have come up with different systems to ensure heat dissipation and increase the productive life of their devices. Thus, for example, Xiaomi has developed Loop LiquidCool which is expected to start being included in some of the phones launched this year.
Although cooling our mobile phone with an external heat sink will not increase its power, it may give us some benefits. But to highlight its effect, we leave you the pros and cons of using external fans for mobile phones below.
- Advantages of external heat fans:
* By cooling the processor and other hardware components, they can perform their functions more smoothly. This allows for a slight increase in the fluidity of the interface at times or at least not to slow down as often.
* In addition, it reduces or at least slows down the life of the devices. This is because excess heat leads to the deterioration of the parts of your mobile phone.
* Apart from this, it makes it easier to use the mobile phone, because when playing a demanding video game on a low-capacity smartphone, the screen will easily heat up above 60 degrees Celsius, burning the fingers of those using it.
Disadvantages of external heat fans:
* Mobile phone fans that do not have their own integrated battery must consume the charge of the phone connected to them. Obviously, this will quickly reduce the mAh of the phone.
* Some outdoor heat fans can be very loud in sound, so they simply startle and annoy those who use them.
Now that you know all about mobile phone overheating and the role of fans, in our final opinion, they are still a very useful and convenient accessory. More so when they make it easier for us to use our mobile phone to play video games.