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fuji

Hi, welcome to the thread

With 65/95W quad-core we should expect passive cooling
Passive cooling is limited to single digit watt numbers.

Keeping power envelope is more important than performance lead.
Power matters. Performance matters as well. Performance per watt considers both.
Beyond, cost matters as well. Performance per watt per dollar is an even better paradigm.

HT3 which obviously consumes more power.
I never thought about HT3 wrt power consumption. I don't think the increase in power for itself is significant. But it feeds the cores with more data in multisocket-systems, which could easily add double digit wattages. Maybe this is one of the reasons we won't see HT3-Opterons before next year.

K.