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rr808today at 4:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

I still remember my first CPU with a heatsink. It seemed like a temporary dumb hack.


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iknowstufftoday at 7:02 PM

Well it kinda was! seeing how power efficient iPhone chips are despite hovering the top of single core benchmarks.

oso2ktoday at 6:09 PM

I had the same inclination back in the 90s when I upgraded my Cyrix 486 SLC2 50MHz without a heat sink (which seems like a no-no in retrospect) to Cyrix MediaGX 133MHz. The stocker fan was immediately noticeable. I thought I had done something wrong.

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