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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

I really remember heatsinks being a thing on overclocked systems around that time frame and then once we got to P4 cpus the chilling towers appeared those things were massive

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The lower power 486s didn't even need a heatsink. The P3 was the first to take a heasink resembling what we have today, but damn did the P4s need some serious cooling.

It's kinda funny how we think the 100 watts of a desktop P4 was insane when now the TDP of a high end laptop CPU is more than that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It's kinda funny how we think the 100 watts of a desktop P4 was insane when now the TDP of a high end laptop CPU is more than that.

It really isn't. Modern mobile cpus barely sip power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

PL2 on a 14900T is 106W

Edit: I'm an idiot, T series is low power socketed, not mobile. 14900HX has a TDP of 55W but boosts short term to 157W, which is still pretty ridiculous

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