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, 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
This is not fake - its an ES, but thats what the CPU's look like and what the coolers look like. Thats enough for the rest of us.
Size comparisons between s478, LGA 775 and LGA 1366 packages:
Size comparisons between standard LGA 775 stock cooler versus i7 XE stock cooler:
You can also see that the i7 XE fan rotates counter-clockwise.
wouldnt it be silly if it blew the air up off the heatsink, lol.
Yeah I think its an ugly design but I’ll take two ;)
Actually I’ll be going for a Core i7 920 and I wish it came with that cooler too. I’ll probably go with sock cooling at first and move up to better cooling later. Lord knows those push pins make installation and removal easy but you never really get the feeling that its secured right (at least not big heavy coolers).
I use one!
Wile can I oc the crap out of your cpu with it?....?please
And if i see someone that has one of these new CPU's in the next 3weeks im going to bitch slap them lol
Or ask them for a loan? hehe :p
I know I did. :o
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Not dissing PCCG though, they rock :rockout: