Intel Pentium 4 670 & Pentium D 820

i was going to post this in my first reply but was at wokr and didnt have the bookmark
http://www.robpol86.com/?imagecfg
so useful

 

Can't see it, actually.

 

bah, referrer bullshits, copy and paste link to a new window/tab

or go to the home page then choose the link from there

 

Well as each retail boxed processor includes a heatsink, it's safe to say that wouldn't matter in the slightest as Intel is smart enough to make the copper spot wide enough. Yes, smart enough even after saying Prescott is better than Northwood (LIES!). Regardless, half the point of the Integrated Heat Spreader is.. well.. spreading the heat. The other point of course being not cracking the crap out of the core/s from your lacklustre heatsink isntallation skills.

 

If everyone buys retail, yes, but there are a lot of 3rd party heatsinks on the market and a lot of LGA heatsinks already shipped that people will reuse. Also, there's very little to no space to put the heatspreader ON if they were separated.
More or less the whole point of the heatspreader is not cracking the cores on heatsink installation so Intel doesnt have to deal with RMAs. Like the move to LGA. If anything adding an extra layer of something between heatsink and core inhibits the transition of heat somewhat.
I dont understand why people are trying to justify something that somewhere along the line doesnt fit. Im not an Intel engineer but from those pictures it's easy to imagine something dosent work for it so it was better for them to put it together. Why on earth would they risk potentially loosing twice as much money if every time they have to get two perfect cores, rather than mix and match like at 65nm. The argument "because they are stupid" holds no weight.

 

Im only trying to figure out their reasoning, not claim theyre stupid...

 

It's just the usual fanboy responce to imply a market leading international company who probably employ a significant percentage of the worlds best CPU engineers is somehow incompetant!? Maybe ive taken the thread out of context?

Imo: there's just not enough space. I gotta find an Intel engineer and ask now.

 

Its a bit rich to say that when all the single core A64s beat the 820 aswell .

 

Not in multitasking.

 

They are red for a reason - that is because they are not multitasking they are simply prioritising the game and not doing anything with DVD Shrink. Thus, they are not completing the test correctly as they are not multitasking. The Pentium 4's, Pentium D 820 and the X2 4800+ are all running DVD Shrink in the background while playing the game.

 

Ah righto, didn't see that