PixelMan wrote:I know the literature says they did it this way for cooling / quiet but not sure that argument holds up too well.
[Rolling my eyes...] back to the new macPro 2013 (aka trashcan), we now have the benefit of the hindsight gained around thermal considerations...
There's this...
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/arti ... -slow-down...and I joked quite awhile ago (complaining about the CPU's going into shutdown because of thermal fatigue even on my kluge-upgraded 2010 5,1 MacPro SilverTower) that it was time to buy a wine-cooler or mini-fridge to house it, plus my Cubix external GPU cage. And I see on the Facebook news feed that someone actually did that recently with the latest MacBook Pro. To kind of prove a point?
In fact, a random power outage that adversely and asymmetrically affected that configuration set up a melt-down of the MacPro unit's backplane... $$$KaChing$$$. And so, now very careful to only render 20 minutes of material at a time @UHD resolution. The Cubix was on a separate circuit which browned-out, shut down, and transferred the entire render pipeline to the onboard GPU, the way Resolve does things...it would be like trying to take a sip from a firehose is the way I imagined it.
Moore's Law is one thing, thermodynamics is another.
jPo, CSI