Twenty percent

It's natural to expect improvement from one generation to another.

That's progression, evolution.

However, there are also physical laws that govern how fluid dynamics and heat transfer work.

So from the things they changed from last generation to this, it's no surprise to me when the cooling capability became worse.

To me it's very straight forward, we were already pushing the envelope in the previous generation, and when you shrink the useful envelope for thermal solution in this generation, naturally the cooling capability becomes worse.

But my words and gut feeling are not convincing data, so while the others were busy harping on changing this and that for very subjective aesthetic reason, I just concentrated on finishing the thermal model generation based on the not-so-mature-but-finally-available CAD.

The lower than previous generation cooling capability projection from thermal simulation results got the attention, and lent me the focus on working on things that improve cooling capability instead.

Through some creative solution, finally managed to improve the cooling capability by around twenty percent, meeting the higher than previous generation target the management set.

Truth is, while the creative solution does help, the relaxed customer specification this year round is the major factor in that improvement in cooling capability. Like I said, there are physical laws that do not yield to the arbitrary goal set by the management.

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