Largest CPU?

[Maximilian]

Is there anything physically larger than a pentium PRO? I bought one for 99p ands its freaking HUGE! Pictures ive seen of it really dont do it justice. Anyways it makes a nice drinks matt thing.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Not in my experience..

 

[Maximilian]

Think itll still work if i keep puttin drinks on it? It looks pretty robust and there dosent seem to be anything static sensitive on the external packaging.

 

[thepingofdeath]

i wanna see a picture of it as a coaster

 

[Concillian]

Yeah I had a PPro 150 that thing is pretty huge, and I think they were still using ceramic packaging which is hard and pretty rugged. I bet it would still work after being used as a coaster. I sold it to a friend in ~1998.

I tride to take apart a P75 or P90 or something of that vintage that used the ceramic packaging. No way, no how without somthing significantly better than your everyday hammer, hacksaw, and dremel.

Slot 1 / Slot A packaging is bigger, but I don't know if that counts under your rules.

 

[Maximilian]

Awsome. I like my new coaster I think the slot 1's are also robust but due to the shape of them they wouldnt be of too much use for anything.

I would post a pic if i knew how.... Thats one thing i really shudda learned... How to post a pic.

 

[Maximilian]

My very first attempt at a picture!

Pro coaster

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: Soviet
My very first attempt at a picture!

Pro coaster

:laugh:

 

[Mogadon]

That's just awesome ... kudos to you.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

run it while using as a coaster! Put some brandy in the glass and warm it up!

 

[arcas]

The IBM Power5 no-doubt ranks up there. Over 5500 pins.

 

[Elcs]

AMD's Slot A and Intels Slot 1 processors look larger than that.

Of course, these are slot CPU's and probably more like expansion cards than the more traditional Socket format but under the blanket of CPU, Id say they are bigger on the basis of your picture only.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: arcas
The IBM Power5 no-doubt ranks up there. Over 5500 pins.

Isnt that 8 cores?

 

[exar333]

great picture!

 

[Leper Messiah]

Itanium 2? The core is larger than the entire package of my winnie.

 

[Maximilian]

Well heres a size comparison with a slot 1 cpu and two others. But yea the actual cpu is inside that plastic.... brick. Ive never been able to get one of those off without breaking the thing

Comparison

I cant afford an Itanium 2 to compare it with lol. Theres that pic of the moneceto or w/e on the front page IDF coverage though.

 

[TuxDave]

I dunno, I heard Montecito was a beast. Google tells me that the die size is roughly 580mm^2. And the pentium pro was 307 mm^2. Montecito for the win!

 

[daftpunkit]

Old AMD K6 600MHz processor was the size of my Cannon PowerShot S50 digi camera...
It looks a tad bit bigger than the PII processor in that comparison pic.

 

[AndyHui]

The original Slot 2 Pentium II/Pentium III XEONs were about 4 times the size of a regular Pentium II/Pentium III Slot 1 package.

 

[TuxDave]

Well, I guess there's a difference if you're talking about the largest die or the largest package.