CPU COOLING

CPU temps: how hot is too hot?

ver since physicists William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the transistor in 1947, we’ve been making transistors bigger and smaller, faster and more efficient. Today, their form may be different but transistors still amplify the music in your phone, display the action of your movies and the games on your consoles. But no matter the application, the one thing every transistor does is dissipate excess power as heat and nowhere is this more crucial than in your PC. Pushed hard in gaming, encoding 8K video or mining cryptocurrency, the average PC CPU can dissipate enough power to drive six 15-watt LED light