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For desktop machines, the biggest challenge is not cooling the CPU, but the GPU, for several reasons: 1. Mid-range cards and higher consume twice as much as a
by antisthenes 10y ago
For desktop machines, the biggest challenge is not cooling the CPU, but the GPU, for several reasons:
1. Mid-range cards and higher consume twice as much as a quad-core CPU.
2. Much more vertically constrained (other expansion cards on the bottom) than a CPU, so heatsink designs are very limited
3. Heatsink is much less standardized, partly because of (2), and partly because of different PCB sizes and the fact that is has to cover VRM chips as well.