Asus A8N-SLI Premium Athlon64 Motherboard Review : Review

Quote: The general rule in computers is that as things get faster, more heat is produced. Over the years we've seen processor heatsinks, and to a lesser degree videocard coolers, increase in size to compensate for the ever larger amounts of heat they must dissipate. Other devices such as motherboard chipsets have flirted with extravagant cooling solutions in the past, but in reality this was not really very necessarily until recently. nVIDIA's nForce2 was probably the first motherboard chipset that really benefitted from active cooling, and with modern chipsets, active cooling is a must. I guess the only exceptions these days are VIA based motherboards - most get away with a little green passive heatsink.

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