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Oof, that CPU is going to be hot on full load. I imagine running an air-cooler is impossible on that one, making this a no-go for me.
by lasagnaphil 6y ago
Oof, that CPU is going to be hot on full load. I imagine running an air-cooler is impossible on that one, making this a no-go for me.
- Twirrim 6y agoThe Prescott era chip used to get complaints about the amount of heat it produced. "PresHot", "Toaster" etc were slung about. A quick bit of searching dug up that it used to have a TDP of 115... and now we're talking about chips that more than double that. Yikes.
- selectodude 6y agoPrescott had one core though, this has ten. 115W was with an order of magnitude fewer transistors. Even back then, that was terrible performance.
- baq 6y agoenthusiast cooling tech has advanced quite a bit, too.
- ac29 6y agoThe TDP on this chip is only 125W, its just that TDP has started to lose its meaning. These days the peak power consumption is "as much as we can get into the chip without exceeding temperature limits".
- madengr 6y agoLooking at the reviews of the Noctua air cooler, it does better than those giant water coolers.
- eropple 6y agoAir coolers can do a better job than AIOs depending on the situation, for sure. I use a Noctua air cooler on my 3900X, and it's great. But when I had the same cooler on a 2700X, it was awful, and moving to a Corsair H60 (120mm radiator with a single fan) was a huge improvement. ...because the 3900X is in a full-tower Fractal Design case and the 2700X is in a cramped 4U HTPC case by Silverstone which is rackmounted into a Gator traveling case. There's just no airflow inside the case and the AIO specific heat transfer is critical.