That 28-core CPU That Intel Showed At Computex - it needs some cooling!

Early this week Intel announced its 28-core processor at Computex. A remarkable achievement all by itself. They had been able to clock it towards 5 GHz even, boasting a CB 7334 Cinebech score. However, as it now turns out, that CPU needed a bit of cooling.

In fact, the processor was cooled with an industrial chiller. So Intel after the demos quickly dismantled the setup as they had previously installed the 28-core chip on Gigabyte and ASUS demo systems earlier that day. After a few hours, these photos (and I honestly do not know who took it as it went viral everywhere, but credits to you man) have been posted on the web. 

I mean, we all understand that 28 cores will need a bit of cooling, but I wasn't expecting that! It's a bit hard to see but that is a Hailea HC chiller and also spotted, a 1600 Watt power supply. 1 That water chiller pumps 1500-4000 liters per hour and uses R134 refrigerant to cool down the coolant towards 4 degrees Celsius. If you look up the specs, it has a cooling power of 1770W. The motherboard was using a lga3647-socket, which is a Xeon processor socket. That's industrial heavy duty cooling. Reportedly the unlocked 28-core proc was a Xeon Platinum Skylake-SP processor. That proc with its default 2.5 GHz clocks does just over 200 Watts in power draw under stress. Try to imagine the numbers when overvolted and tweaked to 5 GHz. In all fairness, it is 28 cores at that frequency.

 
And sure to place things in a little perspective: above you can see the cooler that AMD used for the demo of their 32-core Threadripper 2 processor. No pun intended.