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by washadjeffmad
1043 days ago
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https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/business/technology-intel... I remember the strain of Intel designing up to the "thermal wall" of an architecture before a refresh. Computer shops would use the same often passive heatsinks with fan shrouds that worked with previous models, and between the north bridge and CPU would dump enough heat into the case to either cause throttling or fry the graphics accelerator after a few weeks or months. Or your computer would sound like a jet taking off every time it pulled a little load. Ridiculous wattages seem to be a historical sign that they're actively competing with AMD. I know I've got a picture of a friend cooking cup noodles with egg by setting it on their heatsink while compiling. "Why waste it.JPG" |
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