IBM wins the CPU contract for the Microsoft's X-BOX 2.

[Waccoon]

@PastAmigaOwner:  All the Macs I've taken apart have HUGE heatsinks, though.  The G3 I used to have at work has a heatsink about 18 square inches, with a 120mm case fan blowing on it.  That's one advantage of being able to build custom cases.  The G5 Mac also has a case fan in front of each CPU heatsink.  That's hardly passive cooling.  Maybe Apple is really pushing these processors to their limit?

I also heard the Cube had overheating problems, because the video chip gets too hot and thus affects the CPU.  It doesn't matter to the end user what the problem is.

[Waccoon]

@PastAmigaOwner:

Interesting.  I wish more PC vendors used heatpipes.  The dual heatpipe cooler in the Dreamcast is a wonderful piece of engineering, and makes the unit far, far quieter than my PS2.  :-)