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orev · 03-28-2002, 10:40 PM

Now that the AMD holes are going away, and the revelation of the nano block so long ago, I'm left wondering why so many of these CPU blocks are still so big.

It seems like a pretty big waste of metal, not to mention the added weight and mounting issues, to have all these spiraling channels running around, when the only real heat transfer is taking place right over the core itself.

Am I missing something here? It seems like one could easily get away with 1 channel going left-to-right over the core, then out. Why aren't we seeing anything like that?

03-28-2002, 10:40 PM	#1
orev Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 35	CPU blocks so big, why? Now that the AMD holes are going away, and the revelation of the nano block so long ago, I'm left wondering why so many of these CPU blocks are still so big. It seems like a pretty big waste of metal, not to mention the added weight and mounting issues, to have all these spiraling channels running around, when the only real heat transfer is taking place right over the core itself. Am I missing something here? It seems like one could easily get away with 1 channel going left-to-right over the core, then out. Why aren't we seeing anything like that?