Tru64, more heat needs more loud fans to dissipate, but that's why we made Fan Controllers and EIST/CNQ
. I can attest to a noise issue, having 4 Vantec Tornado 92mm 55dBa running @ max is 3 Sonne+ (I believe that's the word, maybe spelled wrong).
4 of them would make that one loud system, at 55 dB it is already above safe for 1 hour usage OH&S guidelines.
If that is 55 dBa each, then it becomes 64 dB, and that is very loud for a PC, louder than some rackmount servers. (Which normally you sit nowhere near).
If I was LANing near someone with a PC that loud, I'd take noise measurements then advice of potential legal action (OH&S) if they didn't shut it down, or make it quiet (and if that means they need to underclock, that is their problem for building such a frankenstien PC). Liability (even at large LANs, where management become liable at some levels) these days is everything and similar cases have already been won.
2007 is going to be year of the quiet PC, as OH&S is pushing for far quieter office machines. (When you sit near 32+ PCs the noise adds up).
According to available info, the highest clocked conroe on release will be 2.66ghz. Are you trying to tell us that Intel will put out an EE that is more than 25% faster than it's next fastest chip?
Quick calc, yup, you dont have a clue.
Intel can clock the Extreme version at 3.4x GHz if they want, as the current TDP of Conroe is so low as is they have +50% TDP headroom, which translates into (SqRt 1.538) about +24% clockspeed headroom, the power usage will rise (still within acceptable levels though), and clock speed could be 25-33% higher easily. So long as the surface area to contact ratio is good, or better than it is now, they'll overclock very well up to 100w TDP. A +33% increase in clock speed will only 'cost' +77% more power (on a given die size) which is sitting pretty at 116 watts (from 65 watts if I recalled correctly).
We all know Intel like to clock things either +25% or +33% higher for the 'hardcore' varients.
Surface area to contact ratio of the processor / heatsink is expected to be good, considering it is going to have 2 x 4-issue cores on it, and a heap of cache.
It is like Intel removed 'Coke Original' from the market with the 2nd half of the Pentium 4s, and now they are re-releasing what people crave as 'Coke Classic'. I suspect they planned this all along just to see if their marketing efforts alone would cause them to lose market share, and while they did, it wasn't that much of a loss to them, if they kept doing it for another 2 years though.... :roll:
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PS: 200 watts TDP would cause a CPU to burst / reach flashpoint. Sure it would raise performance (SqRt 2.00 = 200%) by +41% or so over 100 watts TDP models (3.92 GHz or so), but it would raise 'absolute' temperatures to extreme levels. (eg: Is 50 C +25% hotter than 40 C, what if you convert them both to Fahrenheit from Celsius ?)
Your lightbulb is only 1% efficient at giving off light, the rest of the energy it heat, and it gets so hot it glows. You do not want a 200 watt TDP processor. (Unless there is some way to control, and transfer all of that heat at very high speeds to something it won't destory).
We already know the Conroe EE/XE is going to outperform 3.92 GHz clocked dual-core K8_ CPUs anyway.
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