its a 486, it was designed to run like that with passive heatsink cooling in a case with little to no air flow for years, its no […]
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AlessandroB wrote on 2023-12-22, 15:31:
I have the hexact cpu in my collection and i can say that using it, become hot like a Sun, the only think is that intel do not think that cpu will survive so many years, they think that this dx2 must be replaced and recycled in 3/4 years maximum. Using it for years and years must destroy it, i can't belive it can survive for years at this temperature. If you touch it literally you burn your finger after only 10 minutes.
its a 486, it was designed to run like that with passive heatsink cooling in a case with little to no air flow for years, its not a modern CPU with a 250watt TDP that will die the moment it hits 105c. I grew up with 386 and 486 machines and they are unkillable from heat so long as they have some form of passive cooling or even just air flow from a case fan.
The 486 DX-33 doesn't even need passive cooling, I know it seems foreign to run them that way but its perfectly fine and what conditions they were designed around, adding a case fan near them for a bit of air flow is all that's really needed. IIRC it wasn't till the DX2- 80 and DX4-100 that they needed some form of small fan on them to supplement the passive cooling.
Just for reference 50c will burn your fingers and a cup of hot coffee will also burn your fingers and both are well below 100c, the 486 DX2-66 is fine up to ~85c with nothing more than its heatsink and basic case fan airflow. (It wont ever hit that temp, thats what the heatsink is for)
As for what Intel wanted . .well these CPUs were normally used in PCs at a time when you didn't just go out and buy an upgrade every 2 - 3 years. .CPUs were very expensive at the time so Intel didn't have a reason to do what you suggest and the 486 CPUs were built to last under a variety of stressful conditions . .like being in a dusty case with little to no airflow in some server closet running at high temps.