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Unic0rn

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how come most of the 2008 GPUs are blower style closed shroud with small heatsinks and single fan intake?

Isn’t open heatsink with triple fans better to dissipate the heat?
 

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how come most of the 2008 GPUs are blower style closed shroud with small heatsinks and single fan intake?

Isn’t open heatsink with triple fans better to dissipate the heat?

Because last time got no need to triple fan everything

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how come most of the 2008 GPUs are blower style closed shroud with small heatsinks and single fan intake?

Isn’t open heatsink with triple fans better to dissipate the heat?

Cos cases not like now, at the time only got two or three fans and very few vents, like the legendary Centurion 5. Rather have blower style to exhaust the heat, and cards like the notorious HD4850 ran very hot so there was a lot of heat.
 

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There was a time when nVidia tnt n 3dfx voodoo gfx was the only ones to go for(maybe Matrox too) and there was Chaintech, shuttle n Epox motherboards.

AMD, INTEL & CYRIX cpus were sold from trays like eggs

That was before y2k
 

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4870x2 was the first time i saw warning hot surface sticker

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The card burns even in desktop
 

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Those were the days

Everyone moved on

Except some like me...
 

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My trading place last time was VR-zone... And discussion in HWZ

motherboard maker last time was ABIT, I dont know if they still exist. And Graphics card was still AGP.
 
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don't like that. i still have soldam case lying around.
 

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... And only until 2017 did Intel move beyond quad core :D

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