Prescott- AT calls it a flop??

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Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: sxr7171

Originally posted by: sellmen

Originally posted by: sxr7171

Originally posted by: Redviffer

Originally posted by: pastorjay Ok all, here is the skinny on the heat... Using Prescott as a space heater

This might actually serve to bring water-cooling to the general public.

I doubt it. Williamettes were worse and OEMs didn't have to resort to liquid cooling then. The only time a consumer product featured liquid cooling was the Sega Dreamcast.

Williamettes didn't dissipate as much heat; the highest was about 75W, whereas the prescotts are over 100W.

I'm sorry you're right. I guess this will mean the introduction of liquid cooling in mass produced computers. There's no way Dell, HP, Compaq customers are going to put up with, in this day and age, the noisy solutions these companies used for Williamette, and if they stick with air cooling Prescott machines will have even noisier cooling setups. This is like having a 100w light bulb in a box, and that is pretty darn hot. I really think Intel should have come up with a way to keep power dissipation down, this is getting bad enough to affect some companies' air conditioning bills. If you don't believe me, I worked on a trading floor where there were so many computers so close together that you could feel the heat wafting from under the desk.

Yeah you definately need a 3.4E for stock trading.

Are you kidding? We had dual processor machines with 2GB of RDRAM those days (about a year and half ago). We had to run models that took 15 minutes to determine our position and mark to market. We also had Sun boxes that ran a 64 bit spreadsheet application (applix). We each had two machines: a windows box with dual processors and a Sun box. When you have options in your portfolio you have some major models to run.