Why are Cpu makers not making better looking CPUs

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I understand the practicalities and we only hold them in our hands for 5 mins but ,It makes a difference . I wanna feel special when I buy a product ,I never look at my cars engine either, but it makes me feel good to know ,If I did it would look nice
 
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A cpu is basically an internal part. Under what circumstance would you 'see it'? Aside from placing it into the socket and once that 5min is over that's it. A cpu is going to have a cooler of some sort attached whether passive, ln2, air, aio, custom cooling loop. They all involve a water block or heatsink of some form that directly covers it.

Yes, some parts of a car's engine can be chromed but the internals? They don't make valves and pistons with the mudflap girl on them because they're literally an internal part and any aesthetic design would interfere with performance which is the whole reason they exist. Cpu's are flat for best connectivity contact and heat dissipation. You can get an led cooling fan, an led waterblock etc...
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Ok as I said in my post ,I understand the logistic's and how much more heat or cost is there in lidding a CPU differently. But the facts are on an 800 dollar Cpu as much time and effort goes into the process as a 200 dollar one and where would APPLE if it was all about power .
 
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LED fans exist because they are something you can see in the right case.

Only scenario I could think of would be a non-existent product that was proposed by IBM some years back in which liquid would be used for cooling as well as power delivery in a more 3-Dimensional CPU design. Then you could make it look cool.
 
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The other thing to keep in mind is just how small the DIY market is in comparison to the global market. You're talking about a lot of research and development money; not to mention coordination with motherboard manufacturers, for a small fraction of DIYers who are a minuscule fraction of the overall global market.

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A cpu is basically an internal part. Under what circumstance would you 'see it'? Aside from placing it into the socket and once that 5min is over that's it. A cpu is going to have a cooler of some sort attached whether passive, ln2, air, aio, custom cooling loop. They all involve a water block or heatsink of some form that directly covers it.

Yes, some parts of a car's engine can be chromed but the internals? They don't make valves and pistons with the mudflap girl on them because they're literally an internal part and any aesthetic design would interfere with performance which is the whole reason they exist. Cpu's are flat for best connectivity contact and heat dissipation. You can get an led cooling fan, an led waterblock etc. There's a reason the inside of a car's wheel doesn't have led lights behind the bead, it's going to get covered by the tire and would be 0% visible.

It's not to make fun of your question but it's a matter of visibility. Anything with aesthetic design should be visible or it makes no sense. Ram has led lighting because in some builds, with a windowed case, unobstructive aio/water cooling cpu block, the ram is actually visible. The visible part of the cpu is what's on top and that's the cooler. Leds and inscribed or laser etched images do appear on coolers, their fans and heatsinks. By the same token it wouldn't make much sense to spring for color coordinated sleeved cables and led fans (internally), led ram and such for a pc case that has no window. That's like decorating the crawl space under your house with christmas lights, people generally stick to the tree, windows and outer trim of the house. Things where it can be appreciated.
 
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Its about product design nothing to do with how long you see it . When you browse parts and build computers the aesthetics of something always matter ,products have failed or lost on this premise,It doesn't take expensive R and D and expensive materials to make something pleasing to the eye .I think AMD already partly follow this avenue as their CPU's, Look a hell of a lot better than Intel's ones. Which are down right ugly chunks of metal in my opinion. .That is design philosophy.Bauhaus and other avant garde designers embraced this philosophy and took the simplest of household objects and made them attractive for no reason other than Human pleasure in holding the item
 
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That might be one of the reasons why AMD is doing so bad...caring about the aestetics of something you wont see over the funcionality of the thing....
 
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AMD are not" doing bad" .,they just posted the highest profits they have had in years. .Unfortunately for them however in this new political climate ,eg Donald trump and his cronies ,AMD stocks took a dive ,If anyone had half a brain ,you would jump in and buy as many stocks as you can .Because when Vega is released and even if it wasn't you can bet your sweet ass those stocks are going straight back up to the original values and maybe even higher ,landing any buyer a Huge profit ,The only problems is finding some for sale. As for costs on their PC Lids a small consistent one piece stamped metal lid costs less than any other and Intel lids probably cost even more to manufacture as they have lots of folds in the
corners and more parts to assemble when enclosing the chip ..
 
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