Wanna See A P4 BTX Heatsink?

[Cricket]

Site is in Japanese but the pictures speak for themselves. Thing is bigger than my hand. P4 BTX Heatsink.

Cricket

[goodnice]

It looks so cool but I know its hot.

[Yuanji]

my new XP-120 laughs at that excuse for a piece of metal priming right now and top temp is 52C so far with 1.38 Vcore at 235 FSB.

[Panama Red]

Holy Cow! I bet the new cases are going to have to be designed so the motherboard lies flat rather than on edge like the ATX desktop units. Otherwise that monster will rip the board in half just from gravity pulling it down.

[Yuanji]

Originally Posted by Panama Red Holy Cow! I bet the new cases are going to have to be designed so the motherboard lies flat rather than on edge like the ATX desktop units. Otherwise that monster will rip the board in half just from gravity pulling it down.

i think the way it's designed, the processor is closer to the bottom of the motherboard. intel's mounting system must be a lot stronger this time to hold those things though. BTX cases so far aren't too different from ATX cases except how the insides are laid out so airflow is improved

[Panama Red]

Originally Posted by Yuanji i think the way it's designed, the processor is closer to the bottom of the motherboard. intel's mounting system must be a lot stronger this time to hold those things though. BTX cases so far aren't too different from ATX cases except how the insides are laid out so airflow is improved

It BETTER be stronger! Can you imagine taking your new puter to a lan party. You hit a bump in the road on the way and think nothing of it. Then when your puter won't start, you open the side and there lies your cpu, hsf and a big hunk of your motherboard!

[HAL9000]

Keep in mind, Intel's use LOW RPM fans to avoid the noise... remember the days of the Athlon classic and 7000RPM fans? So for efficient cooling, you need more fin area which means a larger heatsink.

As for motherboard strength... ever try and bust one in half? It's gonna take more than that heatsink to do it.

[Yuanji]

Originally Posted by HAL9000 Keep in mind, Intel's use LOW RPM fans to avoid the noise... remember the days of the Athlon classic and 7000RPM fans? So for efficient cooling, you need more fin area which means a larger heatsink. As for motherboard strength... ever try and bust one in half? It's gonna take more than that heatsink to do it.

it's not the motherboard that's getting busted, it's the retention bracket with the socket that usually rips out from a really heavy heatsink.

[ric449]

Those heatsinks cool a lot more than the CPU. The official name is a thermal module, because of the way it is designed it can cool memory, partly cool the graphics card, and cool the Northbridge with just that one thermal module.

[carlmccut]

What a monster. Awsome

[mc2phat]

No "Free Fedex Saver Shipping" from Newegg on that behemoth

[rave]

whoa!

[Yuanji]

not sure what the sides are made of. i think it's a thicker aluminum like on the 6800GT's ramsinks. it actually might not weight that much. the majority looks like it's made up of aluminum fins. just picked up my XP-120 today and the size looks about the same, it's just a little taller, smaller surface area and more square. if it is made up of mostly aluminum, it shouldn't take that much to keep it up.

[Turbo91Bird]

Originally Posted by Yuanji my new XP-120 laughs at that excuse for a piece of metal priming right now and top temp is 52C so far with 1.38 Vcore at 235 FSB.

mine too. MWHAHAH, we laugh together!

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

Intel has had pictures on their site for a while: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/p4/btx/

I would be scared of covering the hole in the font of the case though when I pile my desk up with junk, that is on one of the desktop settings. Don't know how wise it is to take the air directly through the front, I'm sure other people can think of other ways to block it.

[shadowbreaker513]

God, you could use that thing as a juicer

[enhanced08]

OMG! that thing is huge! are you sure thats not for AMD? lol

[Yuanji]

hmm cmon intel give us a 4ghz proc dual core or not! dual core 4ghz would be awsome tho.... take that G5! you can come up with a bigass HS for it

[ric449]

Intel cancelled the 4GHz P4. They declared GHz isn't everything.

[questor10]

hey cricket,

ever seen a movie forbidden planet?

it looks like a small version of it.
yes its big boxie .
if it not usefull as a heatsink/cpu cooler how about a paper weight a doorstop,
an object de art(conversation piece). a mini telsa coil.

i'm working on a p4 system for my self acquireing pieces a bit at a time.

thanks for the looksee


"the best is yet to be built"

quester10

[Floppyman]

That's it, I'm finally going with water cooling......j/k

[Yuanji]

5 years from now, headlines:
Intel Finally Releases a 4Ghz Processor after releasing a new motherboard spec dubbed CTX. all CTX stock heatsinks are phase-change cooled for maximum potential even though the quad core 4ghz Procs run at approx 40C idle even under cooling. it is suggested that overclockers look for better aftermarket cooling, preferably sending their processors into space

[questor10]

floppyman,
a and a do you say your'e system or you were going to be water cooled? i'm toasted & coffied.

to be serious a watercooled system would be cool.
thats my next system.

happy holidays

quester10

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by questor10 hey cricket, ever seen a movie forbidden planet?

Yep, seen it a bunch of times but not recently. Leslie Nielsen before he got silly.

Cricket

[Floppyman]

Originally Posted by questor10 floppyman, a and a do you say your'e system or you were going to be water cooled? i'm toasted & coffied. to be serious a watercooled system would be cool. thats my next system. happy holidays quester10

LOL questor, the system of course! I'm already watercooled (sweat)..

[Antistupid]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1727911,00.asp

this article details a BTX system. There are pictures of BTX heatsinks too.