Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz & 1.5GHz
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 20, 2000 12:54 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Constructing Mt. Everest: The Pentium 4’s Heatsink
We just finished mentioning that the Pentium 4 produces less heat than a lower clocked Athlon, but Intel refrained from sticking with the conventional cooling methods they employed for all Socket-370 processors and what AMD is using for their Socket-A CPUs. Instead Intel is debuting a new heatsink retention mechanism that will help to avoid the dreaded crushed core syndrome that some Athlon/Duron owners have seen in recent times.
Let’s take a look at what it takes to assemble the Pentium 4’s heatsink:
First the Heatsink Retention Mechanism is screwed into the motherboard and into the case as seen below. If you've ever installed a Xeon, it's much similar to that retention mechanism, except you're dealing with a socketed CPU not one on a processor card.
Getting both
retention bases installed isn't a problem:
Now let's have a look at the heatsink itself:
Of course retail heatsinks won't look exactly like this but they will be similar in size.
The next step is to place the heatsink on the platform after applying a decent amount of thermal compound. There is no need to put any pressure on the heatsink at this stage.
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g33k - Friday, May 27, 2005 - link
First Post!!!!Seriously how come no one posted on these old articles? It was an interesting read on a bit of history. :)
microAmp - Thursday, November 17, 2005 - link
Maybe because there wasn't a comment section back then? /sarcasim
Rustey118 - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
10 years after first post. 15 years since article.Interesting piece of history. What ever happened to AMD's lead... :(.
For 10 year in the future reader.
I knew AMD would take the performance lead.
ruxandy - Sunday, March 28, 2021 - link
@Rustey118: 6 years into the future reader here: Dayum, man! Can I borrow your crystall ball?fortun83 - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
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this was the worst CPU by intel ever, much like Phenom launch in 2007, yet this is kind towards intel. a contrast to the phenom review. Its sad the bias.Dr AB - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
On the contrary I think this was most interesting ... With much higher memory bandwith, sadly clock speeds were not as impressive in early released models.AndrzejKalach - Friday, February 3, 2017 - link
Yeaa this history is awesome. AMD INTEL this companies needs to fight every time in the market.Good old intels CPUs! That is what i want.
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