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Much better than the time just a few years ago where they tried to show a 28 core 5ghz chip and pretend it was a normal one and got pissed when enthousiast realized they were using insane cooling to get it there.

I'm still baffled by that showing years later. Over-engineered, over-cooled chips to reach absurd speed record has been a staple since as far as I remember, like back in the Pentium 2 or before. Why did anyone at Intel think they should hide the sauce, or get pissed when fans got to it, is beyond my comprehension.

[PartiallyTyped]

> enthousiast realized they were using insane cooling to get it there.

Didn't they use a chiller?

[nolok]

They used a 1700 watt chiller with sub ambient cooling, and a power unit who could pump up to 2000 watts into the CPU. So clearly "record for the show", not "here is what you will buy tomorrow".

Which, taken as the usual world record and cool feat of cpu speed would have been perfectly fine and impressive, but they were getting scared of AMD so for some weird reason some idiot in their PR team insisted on pretending from top to bottom that this was a normal chip running on normal condition, and when Asus (I think ?) let fans see how it was achieved Intel gave them less than 30 minutes to give the chip back.

This was not a great era for Intel ...