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    Gigabyte Aorus Gen4 2TB

    Oct 15, 2019 3 minutes
    –JEREMY LAIRD

    WIND THE CLOCK way back to 1981 and the first IBM PC, the 5150. Take a peek inside and you’d see a motherboard full of chips. But not one of them, including the CPU, had a heatsink, much less active cooling.

    Fast-forward nearly 40 years, and a big, fat fan is the bare minimum for a modern PC processor, and liquid cooling is almost the norm for performance CPUs.

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