Now, Dat's a heatsink!

[Macro2]

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp...225/etc_btxp4560j.html

Shipping these with a P4 560J 3.6.

Maybe the guy just has a small hand?

 

[JBT]

holy crap thats stock???

 

[adurkee]

That's the " stock cooler" used with the upcoming BTX form factor.

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

:shocked::shocked:

 

[wisdomtooth]

Originally posted by: Macro2
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp...225/etc_btxp4560j.html

Shipping these with a P4 560J 3.6.

Maybe the guy just has a small hand?

That's BTX for ya.. Intel's attempt at hedging their bets when super-hot-running dual-cores hit the market in a few months.

IMHO it's a poorly-designed, inefficient heatsink. It's basically one solid sheet of metal wound up in a spiral. It makes poor use of the volume; if they cut radial slots in the spiral it would have increased surface area at least 50%.

This from the same bunch of idiots who gave us the heat-trapping Pentium-II Slot-1 cartridge and the Pentium-IIII Coppermine Socket370 heatsink with the die-cracking, chip-killing 50-pound-pressure mounting spring, and the dumbass ATX 1.0-spec for a fanless CPU heatsink and side-blowing PSU.

That's why I ain't in a hurry to go BTX-- It will have a lot of kinks that need to be ironed out first.

 

[Oyeve]

Damn! Now thats a MOBO bender!

 

[ponyo]

That heatsink probably cost Intel more than the cpu itself.

 

[icejunkie]

Originally posted by: wisdomtooth

Originally posted by: Macro2
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp...225/etc_btxp4560j.html

Shipping these with a P4 560J 3.6.

Maybe the guy just has a small hand?

That's BTX for ya.. Intel's attempt at hedging their bets when super-hot-running dual-cores hit the market in a few months.

IMHO it's a poorly-designed, inefficient heatsink. It's basically one solid sheet of metal wound up in a spiral. It makes poor use of the volume; if they cut radial slots in the spiral it would have increased surface area at least 50%.

This from the same bunch of idiots who gave us the heat-trapping Pentium-II Slot-1 cartridge and the Pentium-IIII Coppermine Socket370 heatsink with the die-cracking, chip-killing 50-pound-pressure mounting spring, and the dumbass ATX 1.0-spec for a fanless CPU heatsink and side-blowing PSU.

That's why I ain't in a hurry to go BTX-- It will have a lot of kinks that need to be ironed out first.

I LOVE YOU! LOL, that's why I always preferred AMD... that, and the price

 

[wisdomtooth]

Well... We have to rap AMD's knuckles here too-- Monkey see monkey do, and AMD was guilty of copying the Pentium-II's heat-trapping cartridge for their first Slot-A Athlons too... And the same die-cracking, chip-killing Socket-A retention springs.

Seriously though, I'm sure BTX will eventually become usable... It will go through revisions, as ATX did when it came out. Figure about 2 or 3 years before they work out what works and what doesn't work with the standard and implement the improvements in BTX 2.0.

Meanwhile, I ain't touching it with a 10-foot pole.

 

[spunducky]

dont hate on intel because they innovate and not copycat like amd

 

[wisdomtooth]

Originally posted by: spunducky
dont hate on intel because they innovate and not copycat like amd

Bwahahaa... I laughed so hard there's tears in my eyes.

You might want to re-read what I wrote above about the Intel Slot-1 cartridge design, the P3 FCPGA stock heatsink clip, the stock P4 BTX heatsink, and the ATX 1.0 spec.

Those are not "innovations." Those are stupid computer tricks.

 

[Macro2]

With Intel going to a Pentium Dothan (low wattage) for the desktop next year...isn't BTX kind of a sick joke?