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Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoWouldn’t sharing heat from a processor directly with other chips be a bad thing? Always imagined you could fry the little chips by the CPU or GPU or whatever you’re cooling
toddestan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The chips are going to have a similar tolerance to heat. They’re all silicon and the fundamentals of how they work are the same. So if may be making a chip hotter than it normally would get, but still within its operational limits it’ll still work fine.
Though there is the argument that if the chip otherwise wouldn’t get that hot that you’re subjecting it to more thermal stress by subjecting it to wider temperature swings than it would otherwise experience. However, I wouldn’t worry too much about that as that’ll take a long time to be a problem.