Core i7 965 XE Unboxed!!

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    Intel would be rolling out an elite fleet of desktop processors based on the new Nehalem architecture soon. The first derivative, the Bloomfield core, is supposed to be the architecture's flagship for the desktop PC market. And for it, Core i7 Extreme 965 is supposed to be the leading processor. Priced at US $999, the processor is clocked at 3.20 GHz and features four cores and eight logical processors thanks to HyperThreading Technology (encore). Details of it are covered here.

    http://www.mobile01.com/index.phpThe contents show a massive stock cooler and the processor itself. The stock cooler is composed of the same fins projecting radially, just that they are much thinner, and more in number (to boost surface area of dissipation). The cooler uses 50% of fins made of copper and the rest 50% made of aluminum. The large CPU contact base is made of copper and pre-applied TIM. The box pictured is the "white-box" part, expect the retail box to be of that exact size.

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    Cooler design is wrong.:P You people think it is good just because it has Copper and Aluminium fins ? :P Just look at a Zalman?Why is the fan embed in the fins?
     

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    zCexVe said:
    Cooler design is wrong.:P You people think it is good just because it has Copper and Aluminium fins ? :P Just look at a Zalman?Why is the fan embed in the fins?
    True, but way better than the ones Intel used to ship before. :D

    But I don't like how those legs are fixed to the HS. An additional layer of metal is added between the base and the fins (to fix the legs), and more interfaces = inefficient heat transfer from section to section :/

    They should have fixed the legs to the fins and extended the same copper/al of fins to the base, if heatpipes would be overkill to the HSF design team of Intel (guess they outsource them??)
     

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    Anusha said:
    True, but way better than the ones Intel used to ship before. :D

    But I don't like how those legs are fixed to the HS. An additional layer of metal is added between the base and the fins (to fix the legs), and more interfaces = inefficient heat transfer from section to section :/

    They should have fixed the legs to the fins and extended the same copper/al of fins to the base, if heatpipes would be overkill to the HSF design team of Intel (guess they outsource them??)
    Comon man,This is an Extreme CPU cooler.Intel started shipping these with extremes like an year ago,right?The optimizing is for the LGA1366.
     

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    zCexVe said:
    Comon man,This is an Extreme CPU cooler.Intel started shipping these with extremes like an year ago,right?The optimizing is for the LGA1366.
    They did? I didn't know. Extreme CPUs = not in the list, not even in my dreams, not even in the dreams of my dreams :D