Originally posted by: Ticktanium2038
Sorry but good try.
Servers cases are much different from consumer PC's. Prescott is not a server CPU.
What are you smoking? I said standard ATX. Look at case galleries and you shall find them, unless you define aftermarket heatsinks and LED fans as exotic cooling (exotic maybe, but normal cooling).
But I do have to give it to you a Dual machine does produce more heat than a single chip but thats not what were looking for.
Lets also confirm Neither of these chips are remotely close to 105+ on either chip.
That's why duallies...combined output aught to be very close, if not far exceeding (in the Xeons especially) the Prescott's heat, and typically the heatsinks used are just big, and could probably be made all copper and do better.
Servers are also in controlled environments with massive cooling systems.
I'll give you controlled environments--72F being a nice max ambient temp
, but massive cooling systems? Um...try a PSU fan and exhaust fan. An extra fan for 2U cases for the drive area...less than a lot of normal PCs, but much like OEM PCs, the cases are designed around effective cooling, and do the job well. IMO, having a piece of folded plastic over the heatsink to control where the air goes is not exotic, either.
Wingnutz has to come up with a single CPU that produces over 105 watts what was released to general consumers that was cooled without exotic cooling. he claims it was done before.
In order for Prescott to be widely accepted for home use or even buisness desktop use it must be able to withstand poor case airflow conditions.
No modern CPU can handle poor airflow conditions. You just can't run a new Athlon in the same cramped desktop case that Athlon 700[1] runs in with a crappy exhaust fan, cables everywhere and no room for air to come in. If it must be better, it must be better. Most are getting there, and if Intel says they should conform, THEY WILL.
That means not attempting to do dustbuster add on's like nvidia cards. Most people wont tolerate the noise and additional heat produced.
No, we won't...some crazy people bought them, though.
1 - My mom's PC, Slot Athlon 700, was making some odd noises. So after a few days, opened it up and found the heatsink hanging in the case by the fan wires. The machine wasn't even have to be turned off. And this is still a nasty airflow situation, the side of the case feels hot to the touch--but no abnormalities have occured, and it's over 3 years old now, whereas I near ruined my current Athlon by switching cases...just couldn't push enough air out of the case.