Discussion Forums > Technology

Old Pc's are wierd. lol

(1/5) > >>

Mikan:
I thumbed through a box of pc parts and found a old MAC 636d Socket. its ceramic.and...from motorola. lol
and zero heatsink.  wouldnt pc's overheat though?

Lupin:
Processors don't generate too much heat back then

kureshii:
There are actually processors that don't need heatsinks. They're not your run-of-the-mill desktop processors, but they serve a wide range of functions. Chances are, if you open up your router you'd find one.

A lot of older desktop chips are like that too.

Mikan:
ahh! Googled, and found out ceramics also dissipate heat.

From what google,  Lupin, and Kureshii said I put together this: Ceramic Sockets are used in electronics that dont use alot of power, therefor not generating alot of heat where the ceramics can dissipate enough of it to keep the hardware safe.

amirite?

kureshii:
Do you mean the socket, or the chip covering? As I recall, the really old processors were soldered onto the board, and don't come in a separate die that fits into a manufactured socket.

But in any case, ceramics are pretty gopd heat dissipators (if I didn't remember my lessons from Materials classes wrongly). They're not used often because they're more expensive to manufacture than the usual composite materials you see covering chips these days (again, assuming that what I learnt isn't already outdated).

It seems ceramic-based cooling technology is mainly used in high-end/industrial/military applications these days, which is where budgets tend to be higher. As a recent example, ASUS has a P55 Lynnfield motherboard (ASUS Sabertooth 55i) featuring ceramic-coated heatsinks "for better heat dissipation". I'm guessing in the past they hadn't developed cheaper methods of cooling just yet.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page