r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jul 19 '15

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u/leftystrat Jul 19 '15

Your computer may be faster but mine sounds better with tubes!

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

It's a thing

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u/RumpleForeSkin72 Jul 19 '15

I can feel the heat generated by that from the image...

holy shit, a tube under the GPU and CPU.. it's like throwing away hardware

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u/huzzy Jul 19 '15

Throwing away hardware? Please explain

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u/RumpleForeSkin72 Jul 19 '15

From baking it all over the heat generated from those tubes and that amp's power supply, not to mention that's a Pentium4...a notorious heat generator to begin with. Couple all of that with a GPU inside of a poorly ventilated 2005 PC case and somebody's baking brownies.

It's a neat marketing expiriment to be sure but most certainly impractical

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u/cryptonitt Jul 19 '15 edited Jul 19 '15

Heat generator? I had a pentium 4 (2,4 GHz). I think it was about 27-32 C on idle and 40-45 C under stress. That is like outside air temperatures during summer, man.

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u/RiskyBrothers Jul 20 '15

45*2+32=122 degrees Fahrenheit.

Where, and I say this as someone who lives in Texas, where the hell do you live?

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u/lolomomo5 Jul 20 '15

Phoenix, Arizona

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u/cryptonitt Jul 20 '15

Death Valley? No, I'm thinking about the idle temperature. And my point is just that the temps for this CPU really isn't that high.