Intel Kentsfield pixellated

INTEL WANTS BLOOD. After being ridiculed for the whole NetBurst affair, its new Core marchitecture just might do the trick. Chipzilla is promising faster ramp-ups and the company looks unconcerned about happenings north of Satan Clara, in a sunny vale where Chimpzilla resides.

And here is some evidence that the company is back on schedule.

While it looks like a regular PC, the Thermaltake cooler hides a Kentsfield CPU - a dual-die Conroe with nice four cores, eight Megs of L2 cache in total. The process is of course, 65 nanometres - and you can pretty much expect that this baby isn't much more than a Clovertown (dual-die WoodCrest) on Socket 775. The clock speed was unavailable, and we couldn't take a picture of the Task Manager or something similar. CPU-Z was not installed, sigh.

The pictures were taken after the Kentsfield-powered machine worked under load for several hours, and the cooler was warm on touch. In fact, it was only slightly warmer than the cooler on a 2.66GHz Conroe, but we cannot really compare that, since this copper-aluminium baby was far more powerful than Intel's own reference cooler. µ