Originally posted by: SLIM
Back on subject, two points:
1) there is no scale to the pictures of the heatsink making it impossible to guess its actual size
2) the 100-130W TDP is not a maximum power consumption and Intel is well known for not actually giving the maximum power consumption.
1. Whatever it's scale it's not like anything that I have seen anywhere in our test setups.
2. I'm not sure that I agree exactly with this statement, but regardless, it will be the case of Montecito due to the introduction of Foxton technology. You can Google for the limited details that have been released, but there's a mention of it in
this Inquirer article that's about 2 months old:
"This 1.72 billion transistor chip may seem like it will suck power like water, especially since it uses Intel's 90nm process. Because of the new Foxton technology, it actually only consumes 100w, 30w less than it's predecessor."
and later:
"Foxton sets the voltage to the minimum level needed to do the desired computing task. If voltage draw or temperature go too high, it will ratchet things down to get to the desired 100w level. It can also do this locally to parts of the chip, not necessarily globally."