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You must be young. Home PC CPUs from my youth drew only single digit watts. They didn't require any fan until the Pentium.
by em500 6y ago
You must be young. Home PC CPUs from my youth drew only single digit watts. They didn't require any fan until the Pentium.
- acqq 6y agoIndeed: 386, introduced 1985: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80386/Intel-A80386-16.html http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80386/Intel-A80386-16.html Typical/Maximum power dissipation: 1.85 Watt / 2.3 Watt And even no Pentium III 1999-2003 needed more than around 30 W: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_III_microprocessors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_III_micr...
- karmakaze 6y agoThe Pentium II was not as efficient as the III. I remember setting up a dual socket machine where the PS started to matter. The best thing was that the web browser would only suck 100% from one processor.