What kind of CPU heatsink is this?!?!

[alfa147x]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2...58-show-up-in-taipei/1

thanks!
~alfa


EDIT:
after reading some thats a reference size intel gives?
Is there any HS that is made like this ?

 

[mpilchfamily]

Made like what a solid block of aluminum? Its just a block showing the aproximate dimensions of the reference cooler for the socket. Its not actually a cooler.

 

[AmberClad]

It's just a box showing the clearance area around the Nehalem socket that the motherboard manufacturers need to comply with . If it were made into a heatsink, it'd be a pretty bad one - not much surface area to it, considering it's just a solid block.

 

[alfa147x]

damn, got to admit it look pretty bad ass though

 

[surfsatwerk]

I think it's funny they needed to label which side faces the memory... I mean it's a freaking box why the heck would it matter?

 

[Zepper]

It is a box, but maybe it is not concentric with whatever is underneath - maybe offset one way or the other.

.bh.

 

[Andrew1990]

Well it could actually be a very good cooler depending on how the layout inside of it was. If it was just a solid block, then it would be horrible but if it was hollow with aluminum fins and a fan then it might actually be somewhat good.

 

[ther00kie16]

you never know what's under there. it's a black box so for all you know they could have the world's best cooler in there that nobody knows about.
i'm not saying they do, just that it's a "black box" so you can't say for sure what's underneath the surface.