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Originally posted by copyman
I wonder if it would not be possible in the cascate or lrww, you optimize them a little more to the format incapsulated of the die p4, increasing the efective thermal change area of them
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To optimise more for the P4's will result in less performance for bare-die CPU's.
I figured it like this. All the really hard-core P4 overclocker's pop the heat-spreader off the P4 anyway, which essentially turns a P4 into a bare-die CPU again.
I guess it's just a matter of targetting what matters most when it comes to balancing performance across a range of applications. There is a slight preferential focus to bare-die CPU's, but I was careful to ensure that for IHS-based CPU's the Cascade also gives very good performance.
The IHS really is a cooling obstacle. I can work with it slightly better (maybe 1C), but to the detriment of bare-die cooling performance, and doing so will also increase the cost of the waterblock as there will be extra machining time.