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It has been like that for a while ... in 2000-ish we were calling Athlon Kotlon (Kotlon is stove in bulgarian)

In the mid 2000s I was running a Prescott oven in my room.

Just wrap that computer case in tin foil, and you got a makeshift oven!

There's the story that ARM at one point took a "pizza oven" using Intel CPU's as heating elements to trade shows back in the early 90's.

Back in the early 90s, it was an actual scandal that the Pentium had such a huge heat sink. The magazines (at that time, computing magazines were quite popular) were joking that next they'd put a fan on the CPU. Haha.

Those were the days, really, because there was still the possibility that in the future you'd have any damned thing in your computer, not necessarily an x86. You could have an Alpha or a SPARC or PPC or maybe an i960. And it would be silent and use no power and you'd install it in your bitchin' conversion van.

I miss the P4 I used to have at an old job. It kept my feet nice and warm in the winter.