Tuesday, September 23rd 2008
Core i7 965 XE Unboxed, Stock Cooler and Processor Exposed
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.
Mobile01, unboxed the i7 965 before launch. The 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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Mobile01
Mobile01, unboxed the i7 965 before launch. The 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.
74 Comments on Core i7 965 XE Unboxed, Stock Cooler and Processor Exposed
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Welcome to the forums Bird!
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Besides, E.S. parts usually has no specific number (i.e. 965), instead they titled simply f.ex. "Intel Engineering Sample", or so. (Look at some CPU-Z screenshots...)
With 920/940, this is the cooler you're most likely to get:
I may just have a suspicious mind, but is it me or... nah, nevermind, I'd be going off topic.
E.S. chips are not supposed to be handled this way, right? E.S. chips are there to help engineers to design motherboards, OEM's to make new systems, and so on -- even before and unrelated to the official launch date.I do. Of course I did not mean it's a fake processor package in itself, LOL.
(Regarding the cooler, if it's not a retail package, one can't be absolutly sure the retail one is going to go with the same cooler..)
All in all, it's not an unofficial unboxing of a retail i7 965 XE processor package, but an unboxing of a package holding an ES chip, and supposing the "real thing" will resemble to this all.
the copper+alum is a pretty smart way to increase the ability of the cooler to cool while keeping costs low and weight down. ugly and smart lol
2. Who cares if the XE fan design is good or sucks? How many people are actually gonna buy that processor at $1000+? I highly doubt many of those people are gonna stick with stock heatsink fan.