Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online

On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:37:12 -0600, chrisv wrote:

rbowman wrote:
 

Years ago we used water cooling on an prototype machine. It was a 50 KW
Colpitts oscillator powered by a very large Eimac tube, not a computer.
There must be some corollary to Moore's law where power consumption is
inversely proportional to device complexity and doubles every two years.

 
It doesn't seem all that long ago that CPU's didn't even require
heatsinks.  I recall 33MHz 486 PC's being that way.  When the 66MHz 486
DX2 came out small heatsinks (without fan) began to be used. Pentiums
started using heatsinks with integrated fans.

A company I did some work for had a collection of no-name 'turbo' PCs. I
don't remember if they had a heat sink but the cases were the AT form
factor and you needed to leave the cover off to let them breathe.

Today even the Pi 5 in the Canakit box has a heat sink and a cute little
fan.

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