winewood, I understand where you're coming from.
My argument is this, and based upon my experiences with my block designs on P4's with heat spreaders, which is why I keep referring to them as examples.
Before we blindly assume that we simply MUST make the area of cooling focus larger, we must first establish that such is even needed. I'm just looking at the various aspects of the Opteron implementation, and right now I cannot see a necessity for the assumption that the focus simply definitely must be larger, based upon my experiences with the P4's and their heat spreaders, and then extrapolating from there and given what we do already know about the Opteron.
That's all I'm trying to say, and that's all the value that I'm trying to add here. If you or anyone else believes my opinion to be wrong, then so be it. It's just my opinion.
My personal opinion is that a heat-spreader really isn't what it's name implies. It's a CPU core protection device. Given adequate focussed cooling, it doesn't really spread the heat, and by heat, I mean wattage.
I'll leave the thread be now.
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