I remember 386 and 468 processors from the 90s were fanless with puny heat sinks. I think their power draw was between 1- 6w depending on model. I am not sure if TDP was used as a metric at that time. Does anyone know the last desktop CPU to be made without a fan?
I am curious about its TDP and at what point intel/AMD started adding a fan to their processors heatsink.
Curiously the chipset on a modern A320 AM4 motherboard has a tiny (relative to old cpus) passive heatsink and uses 6.8w. Looks like the X370 chipset has the same power draw but a bigger heatsink. I guess the A320 isnt expected to reach the same wattage.
I am curious about its TDP and at what point intel/AMD started adding a fan to their processors heatsink.
Curiously the chipset on a modern A320 AM4 motherboard has a tiny (relative to old cpus) passive heatsink and uses 6.8w. Looks like the X370 chipset has the same power draw but a bigger heatsink. I guess the A320 isnt expected to reach the same wattage.
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