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Long story short, the nVidia Geforce GTX 1080 thermal throttles at 83C with the original nVidia cooler, although I wouldn't rate it as catastrophic. Some laptops with Intel Core M processors tend to overheat, and then the CPU throttles way down to it's lowest possible frequency, like 800Mhz. That's what I'd call catastrophic.
OK, so the founder's edition GTX 1080
with the vapor chamber + heat pipe cooler throttles slightly, but other video card - and cooler manufacturers managed to keep temperatures (barely) under the limit, so the video card will work perfectly, even when overclocked.The sad truth is that neither Intel nor nVidia planned ahead to improve cooling, even though the technologies were already thought through.
The simple solution researchers came up with was inserting (highly) heat conductive metal nano-rods into the architecture of the chips, so the heat can be dissipated more efficiently.
The slightly more complicated proposed solution was to make nano-tube heat pipes inside the chip, which would be even more efficient than the metal rods, but a lot harder to do.
Personally I'd go with a more barbaric solution, like spreading out the chip architecture on a bigger wafer, to have a larger surface. This is not ideal, because the whole industry is trying to make things smaller, in order to bring down material costs ... so we'll see what they'll actually start using in the next generation of smaller chips.
NOTE: It is well known that AMD's 32nm FX processors
consume a lot of electricity and produce a lot of heat, but you should also know that they are kinda' the last generation of processors with very efficient heat dissipation. The FX processor wafer is quite large and the metal cap is soldered on, so if you have a good cooler
, you can keep its temperature down at 10-20 degrees above ambient, while comparable 14nm/22m Intel Core i3/i5 processors always go above 70 degrees C under load.
from AMD.
machine, I used it with two 17" 1280 x 1080 LCD monitors: one connected to the on-board DVI and the secondary screen to the on-board VGA port. This configuration worked relatively well, although the processing power of the integrated Intel HD Graphics chip wasn't enough to play an HD 720p video on one screen, and do something 2D/3D intensive on the other. This was really annoying. But as luck would have it, the DVI port died on my 10 year old Fujitsu-Siemens B17-2 LCD, so I had to find a cheap solution to connect both monitors to the PC.
video card for about 22 USD.
/720 still use Kepler architecture, while 
is even older, it has a 40nm GPU.
, without affecting the 720p video playing on the other screen through the Intel iGPU.
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/745 with the much newer Maxwell chips. Long story short, it is not uncommon to have three or more different chip generations/architectures in one product family.
video cards are already in reviewer's hands, but the NDA is expected to be lifted only on the 17th this month).
level performance, while consuming about half the power, and a 299 USD price tag.
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system with 4x4GB DDR4-2600MHz (this may be a typo, as officially 
support and the AM4 mainboards, which will be used by Zen processors too (probably with after a simple BIOS update).
processors, which are significantly cheaper than the APUs (and Intel CPUs) with the same performance.
desktop/laptop SSDs. They are already in stores for about the same price as Kingston SSDs (at first glance). Write speed on the 120GB model is at 360MB/s, while the 240GB and 480GB models write at up to 470MB/s. Read speed is 520MB/s for all three models, but we can expect slight differences in benchmarks.
, Core i5-4670R and 
, all from the Haswell generation. Needless to say that they were all made for a BGA socket (FCBGA1364), which means the CPU is soldered onto the mainboard.
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cooler, which promises exceptional cooling for standard and overclocked processors too, without exceeding the physical dimension limits of low-profile computer cases. It measures just 48mm with the fan.
can produce up to 47CFM airflow, but while doing so, it'll also increase in decibels up to 62.88dBA. That's unacceptable in most situations, as small form factor PCs are usually expected to be silent too.
cooler to be a failure, but if it will be cheap enough, then you can replace its fan with any silent model from any manufacturer, as the cooler has standard fan mounting holes. Mounting a fan with silicone feet is also something you should consider, even if the fan you've chosen already has a good vibration isolation (ex: like Arctic Cooling fans).
cooler has a "closed fan", meaning that air can't escape on the sides. The cooler also has a plastic cover, a continuation of the fan's body, which makes sure the air passes -most of the way- through the heatsink, taking away more heat than the Intel stock cooler.