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How to do it wrong... Genesi, we want the contrary to this!

[ Edited by timofonic on 2004/9/9 6:44 ]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

...lol
the title should be "The future of the intel processors".
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Good timing, they are quite old but just today two new pics appeared for the Itanium "montecito", apparantly it's 150- 200Watts and has a moster heatsink here and here to take it. To add to the fun these things will ship in big multiprocessor servers (8 way or more).

On the other hand the latest Pentium-M's are less than 10W, I have to wonder what their performance is like though.

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my prescott 3.0E has a

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/zalmancnps700acu/

on it, so I see the point.

Thats just insane. Anyone can speed a CPU up if they slap on cooling like that. Heck I bed soon Intel will have a garden ose connection on the CPU to connect a hose to for cooling.

"Itanium "montecito", "

montecito?

It should be called "Vesubio", "Popocatepetl", "Krakatoa", "Inferno", "Vulcano", "incombustible fire " or something like that.

It's quite funny to see the names AMD and Intel choose these years... the most funny one was "Palomino" (Palomino in spanish is a stain line of S.h.i.t on the shirt)

[ Edited by Crumb on 2004/9/10 10:54 ]

THe "montecito" seems a comb with the monster heatsink!
Magnetic will be happy seeing the "montecito"!

People will use montecito for melt snow or heater, a multi-purpose device...

Don't laugh too much, POWER5 uses a similar amount of power already!

Montecito looks to be a real beast of a CPU, it has 24MB L3 cache on chip and is close to 10X the size of a 970FX. You can bet it's going to be rather fast as well - it was designed by of the people who developed the Alpha...

Now tell me, who needs these monster cpus and the accompanying cooling systems? Gamers? Coprorate database? Special effects houses (render farms)? Weather/bio simulations? The CIA? The military? Illegal drug rings?

@ultraspec

No, it will be the minimal requirements for run Windows Longhorn...

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I think you just answered your own question!

Actually I've heard a bit more about that monster heat sink, all is not what it seems...

It is an active heatsink - it includes a pait of electronic cooling devices which themselves use 40Watts each. The CPU itself *only* uses 100Watts. This is very clever as the CPU itself is running fairy cool despite pouring off 100W - cooler than G3 users in fact.

Without the forced cooling the leakage would increase by a very large amount (it increases with temperature) and the CPU would end up putting out 175 Watts. By putting the extra Watts into the cooling they keep the CPU a lot cooler and it actually uses less power as a result.

Very clever stuff, told you the Alpha team would come up with something interesting...


In other news another nice warm (and *very* fast) CPU - the IBM POWER5 - has been released in 4Way Linux servers for $5000 a pop, this'll be interesting as montecito is going to be incredibly expensive to manufacture whereas POWER5 is a lot cheaper, by then (2006) of course it'll be up against the even smaller POWER6.

Yeah, I guess I did. I just don't understand why the "Average user" is interested in such powerful CPUs aside from bragging rights.

I agree with timo, every time a new version of Windows comes out there are new hardware requirements to coincide with it -- buying new more expensive computers is considered "normal" when it doesn't have to be.