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The reason none of the reviewers are talking about how the CPU performs thermally is that Intel didn't allow them to. See page one of the Anandtech review for i
by makomk 7y ago
The reason none of the reviewers are talking about how the CPU performs thermally is that Intel didn't allow them to. See page one of the Anandtech review for instance: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14664/testing-intel-ice-lake-10nm https://www.anandtech.com/show/14664/testing-intel-ice-lake-... Not that they could have got terribly meaningful results anyway, since this was a fairly large and thermally unconstrained test system with the fan locked at 100%. (Since the kinds of systems this CPU would be used in are very thermally limited, this means the performance figures may not be terribly representative of the real world either.)
- raxxorrax 7y agoHuh, I hoped these test-NDA were a thing of the past again. But yeah, tests would probably not be conclusive in that case. Still the topic that would interest me most compared to CPU performance.
- close04 7y agoNot when you need to make up some lost momentum and the competition is already running with it. Intel keeps doing these paper launches and early announcements meant to keep them a little in the spotlight. They're not having a good time for a while now. Some websites take it with a gran of salt, some still don't, even after being repeatedly used to tout a nonexistent horn.