Manufacturers not cooling Intel graphics portion of the CPU

[Sojke]

What gives with manufacturers (Dell, Acer, ...) not cooling the Intel Graphics portion of the cpu ??

Take a look at these images:



This cant be right can it?

[mariushm]

Re: Manufacturers not cooling Intel graphics portion of the CPU

Are you sure that's the integrated graphics and not the "chipset" or some embedded memory for the graphics part of the processor?

Why wouldn't they incorporate the integrated graphics into the actual processor die ?

[stj]

Re: Manufacturers not cooling Intel graphics portion of the CPU

i'v seen that done before.
it could be that the heat from one die was so high that it actually heated the other up - so they removed a shim / skimmed the plate to prevent it.

[Sojke]

Re: Manufacturers not cooling Intel graphics portion of the CPU

Could be the chipset, that would make stjs answer correct, as in newer laptops (HMxx) the chipset has no cooler on it, meaning the cpu die would only heat it up more.

It was pretty strange to see the first time, we thought some one forgot a thermal pad or something, but the second time it was way more obvious its intentional.

[eccerr0r]

Re: Manufacturers not cooling Intel graphics portion of the CPU

More heat sink paste please!
*shiver*