What is the hole in the P4 CPU?
Just wondering what the hole in the corner of the CPU is for?
Just wondering what the hole in the corner of the CPU is for?
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Quote:Quote:Just wondering what the hole in the corner of the CPU is for?
That's where the "pre-installed Gremlin" can get in & out of it...
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APK
P.S.=> NO idea actually, good question! No 'technical documentation' on it @ Intel? That is a "StRaNgE" ² sounding CPU design & I'd ask that question myself if I had that model of CPU here myself... apk
Must be a small gremlin , maybe santa claus drops down it or summin?
Well i may send an e-mail to Intel if no one knows
That's where the "pre-installed Gremlin" can get in & out of it...
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APK
P.S.=> NO idea actually, good question! No 'technical documentation' on it @ Intel? That is a "StRaNgE" ² sounding CPU design & I'd ask that question myself if I had that model of CPU here myself... apk
Must be a small gremlin , maybe santa claus drops down it or summin?
Well i may send an e-mail to Intel if no one knows
it's so the robot can pick it up during processing
(no really)
more specific
it's an indexing hole for the robot
(no really)
more specific
it's an indexing hole for the robot
Intel employed an integrated heat spreader (IHS) in order to take the concentrated heat being produced and spread it over a larger surface area.
This makes it able to dissipate heat in a more effective manner.
Read thur this
http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/guides/24988903.pdf
Take look at this
http://www.upgradeware.com/english/product/370gu/fcpga2-2.htm
Now do you get it
This makes it able to dissipate heat in a more effective manner.
Read thur this
http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/guides/24988903.pdf
Take look at this
http://www.upgradeware.com/english/product/370gu/fcpga2-2.htm
Now do you get it
that little hole is for gasses to escape so the heatspreader doesnt pop off.
as the core heats up the very small amount of gas trapped around the core (not between the core and heatspreader but around it) expands a small amount, without that hole to alow outgassing the heatspreader would pop right off.
FYI, a friends who used thermal epoxy (WHY? i dunno) to mount his heatsink to his p4; epoxied that hole closed in the process, 1/2 hour into windows install later it got REAL FREAKING SLOW and finally died, the heat spreader had popped off the core... of course then he just epoxied the core to the heatspreader...
its a real testament to intels thermal capability when a chip loses its heatspreader in the middle of running and it doesnt go POOF!
as the core heats up the very small amount of gas trapped around the core (not between the core and heatspreader but around it) expands a small amount, without that hole to alow outgassing the heatspreader would pop right off.
FYI, a friends who used thermal epoxy (WHY? i dunno) to mount his heatsink to his p4; epoxied that hole closed in the process, 1/2 hour into windows install later it got REAL FREAKING SLOW and finally died, the heat spreader had popped off the core... of course then he just epoxied the core to the heatspreader...
its a real testament to intels thermal capability when a chip loses its heatspreader in the middle of running and it doesnt go POOF!
OK Guyz here is the e-mail from Intel, Wait for it .....!
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Intel
Technical Support.
Regarding your question of why there is a hole in the corner of the processor.
The function of the hole is to release pressure during the manufacturing process
so that a sealed pocket of air is not left under the integrated heat spreader.
Please contact me again if I can be of further assistance.
Best Regards,
Naomi R.
Intel Customer Support
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Well there you are!
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Intel
Technical Support.Regarding your question of why there is a hole in the corner of the processor.
The function of the hole is to release pressure during the manufacturing process
so that a sealed pocket of air is not left under the integrated heat spreader.
Please contact me again if I can be of further assistance.
Best Regards,
Naomi R.
Intel Customer Support
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Well there you are!
Hmm...I'm not sure I want to know how the old Socket 7 Cryix CPU's were made then...might've been by lab rats
