What exactly is under the Itanium's heatsink?

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited July 2004 in Hardware
Absolutely nothing. :rolleyes:

They used some weird bit that's like a torx bit with a little bump in the middle to hold the IHS on, so until I get a bit for it, we won't get to see the actual Itanium CPU...

I'll tell you what, though. These are heavy mofos. I haven't measured it, but subjectively, they're almost as heavy as an SLK-900A- and this is JUST the CPU I'm talking about here, not the heatsink. The heatsink is all aluminum and very, very light.

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    What'd you expect to be under the heatsink? I mean, honestly. Heh.

    They've been heatspreading the Itaniums for damn near forever.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2004
    lol. Well, see, I never had any great interest in the tItanics, so I didn't know that.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    I've never expressed any real interest in enterprise computing's largest underachiever either.

    But, as they say, know thy enemy.
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