Which was Intel's first CPU to require a cooler?

[DrMrLordX]

P5 66 (MUST or will melt your socket 5)
P5 90 had copper Bulge require
Later cpu like OverDrive etc came with one!
Dell was known to put Giant Heat sink along Case Fan from 486 DX 33 and up

P5 60 mhz was the first that I can remember. People made fun of it for being so hot.

 

[misterduffy]

P5 60 mhz was the first that I can remember. People made fun of it for being so hot.

I think that may have been the first Intel CPU with an integrated heat spreader.

 

[ShintaiDK]

486 was the first with active and passive cooling.

 

[Eric1987]

My first PC that was all mine was a Pentium 4 1.8GHz I OC'd to 2.3GHz. You guys make me look young. I believe we had a 486 when I was just a child as well.

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

I had one of those. "Everyone" said that those would run effortlessly at 40Mhz x 4. So I tried it. Board (Sis chipset with PCI slots, fairly modern for back then) promptly wiped my MBR. Spent a few hours re-constructing my partition table manually with Norton Disk Editor.

huh, must have got a "bum" one.. my AMD 5x86 133 was never run at stock - I jumpered it to 160 for the 1st boot and never looked back.

my 486SX2 66 was my 1st heatsinked CPU. ran it at 80 as I recall.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I built my first DIY pc using an amd 5x86 that was actually faster than the flagship intel pentium 100 for a lot less money. My first actual pc was an atari 130xe with a motorola 6502c cpu and I actually had a 9 pin dot matrix printer with that one. I don't count the commodore 16, c64 and timex sinclair's I had before it as pc's since they didn't have a printer or storage lol.

 

[Idontcare]

P5 60 mhz was the first that I can remember. People made fun of it for being so hot.

BiCMOS process technology. The people who developed that were rocket scientists.

And yet as consumers all we managed to do with our technological gifts of the early 90's was figure out how to search for p0rn on the internet and plagiarize our term reports.

There are some really smart people on this planet...and then there are the rest of us :|

 

[ehume]

And yet as consumers all we managed to do with our technological gifts of the early 90's was figure out how to search for p0rn on the internet and plagiarize our term reports.

My Apple ][+ came without a heatsink. Heck, it came without a heatspreader. My guru friend figured out how to mount the (Apple) DOS chip piggy-back. So we soldered a chip on top so we could get DOS 3.2 (normal version was 3.3) and play Zork. No Internet then. Only BBS's. 1200 Baud modems brought text to the edge of readability. Cooling wasn't an issue in 1982, but note that we hard-modded our cards to play a game.

 

[jhu]

BiCMOS process technology. The people who developed that were rocket scientists.


And yet as consumers all we managed to do with our technological gifts of the early 90's was figure out how to search for p0rn on the internet and plagiarize our term reports.

There are some really smart people on this planet...and then there are the rest of us :|

Uhm, we still do that. Millions of man-years and billions of dollars worth of equipment to produce a product that most people use to search for porn or cat videos, argue with strangers, and enthusiasts try to destroy by making them operate faster.

 

[nk215]

My intel dx50 required a heat sink. Dx2/66 also had a heat sink. Dx4/100 had both heat sink and a fan.

 

[john3850]

3dfx Voodoo in a Pentium overdrive cpu 198-mhz.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Wow, nice thread necro?

 

[john3850]

I mixed up the page when I went to post .

 

[bigboxes]

My first PC (hand me down) was a 200MMX. Saved the processor and the ram, but threw the rest away.

 

[2is]

I had a Pentium 200 MMX as well and it just had a large aluminum heat sink

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I remember 486s with (passive, obviously) heat sinks on them.

 

[PliotronX]

486 probably.. I remember reading about thermal grease for which my dads DX4-100 had none so I got one of those little tubes of zinc oxide/silicone from radio shack and smeared it on there with my bare finger as thick as a PB&J sammich. Good times before having resources in the internet

(One of these bad boys)

 

[DrMrLordX]

http://www.redhill.net.au/c/c-4.html

That might help a little.

 

[ElFenix]

I remember 486s with (passive, obviously) heat sinks on them.

Nearly all processors even today are passively cooled; computer dorks wrongly decided that attaching a fan to the thing made it active. That's passive because it doesn't actually cool anything, it just blows heat around. Same with turning on the fan in your living room. My high school physics book made this perfectly clear.

 

[2is]

They're nearly all passively cooled; computer dorks wrongly decided that attaching a fan to the thing made it active. That's passive because it doesn't actually cool anything, it just blows heat around. Same with turning on the fan in your living room.

Go ahead and disable all the BIOS safety features, load up real temp, then IBT, go ahead and unplug the fan from your heatsink and tell me it doesn't cool anything.

 

[ElFenix]

Go ahead and disable all the BIOS safety features, load up real temp, then IBT, go ahead and unplug the fan from your heatsink and tell me it doesn't cool anything.

I didn't say it didn't do anything (particularly if you do something dumb like turnoff thermal overload). It moves ambient air around, which is needed. But it can't possibly get anything below ambient, regardless of how much air it pushes or how big the stack of fins is. No, I have to rely on actual active cooling, like my air conditioner, to do that.

 

[NTMBK]

I didn't say it didn't do anything (particularly if you do something dumb like turnoff thermal overload). It moves ambient air around, which is needed. But it can't possibly get anything below ambient, regardless of how much air it pushes or how big the stack of fins is. No, I have to rely on actual active cooling, like my air conditioner, to do that.

Slap a Peltier on that sucker. I bet you could easily hit 350MHz.

 

[2is]

I didn't say it didn't do anything (particularly if you do something dumb like turnoff thermal overload). It moves ambient air around, which is needed. But it can't possibly get anything below ambient, regardless of how much air it pushes or how big the stack of fins is. No, I have to rely on actual active cooling, like my air conditioner, to do that.

You said they don't actually "cool" anything. If it gets hotter without a fan, and cooler with one, that seems to indicate it does cool. Why does it need to cool below ambient for it to be considered "active"?

I suppose if you want to get super technical, it's not the "active" part that is the issue, but the "cooling" part. Its a lot easier to say active/passive cooling vs active/passive heat dissipation

 

[Dresdenboy]

My family's HP with a Pentium MMX 200MHz only had a heatsink. I was 5 years old when we got it ^_^.

Later models might run cooler due to process improvements.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Nearly all processors even today are passively cooled; computer dorks wrongly decided that attaching a fan to the thing made it active. That's passive because it doesn't actually cool anything, it just blows heat around. Same with turning on the fan in your living room. My high school physics book made this perfectly clear.

Well, sure, if you want to get all physics-ey.