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[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 months ago

Computers in 97 didn't need much in the way of cooling. A large passive heatsink was plenty for those CPUs. They're not the 300+ watt behemoths we have today.

[-] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago

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.