Gigabyte Aorus Gen4 2TB
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.
