AMD releases image of its ZEN4 processor

icedman

2022-07-20 10:08

Ugh I very much dislike the lga socket style since my 3770k fused with a pin on p67 board destroying the mobo also it just moves the cost of the pins to the mobo and like Intel we all know they aren't going to drop prices on the cpu

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mackintosh

2022-07-20 10:19

Man, that thing's fugly.

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nizzen

2022-07-20 10:26

Release day of zen 4; Here is the picture. Look at it 1 year.... 22 A.G.E.S.A later: Zen 5 is here 😀

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Undying

2022-07-20 11:22

I like it. 😀 7800x3d beast!

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bonomork

2022-07-20 11:53

and 'Compatible with Socket AM4 cooler'

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DownwithEA

2022-07-20 13:12

As long as it performs well and disperses its heat quickly I really don't care if it looks like my nether region considering I will be looking at it for a matter of seconds.

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coth

2022-07-20 13:19

mackintosh:

Man, that thing's fugly.

You wouldn't see it under the cooler. The problem is thermal pastes.

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Picolete

2022-07-20 14:06

So it has the same flawed socket design the Intel uses, with the lever on one side

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Warrax

2022-07-20 14:33

Looking good! not fugly at all imo.

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tunejunky

2022-07-20 14:36

LGA's are as delicate as your maiden aunt's virtue.

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reix2x

2022-07-20 16:07

It looks very cool to me, i'm a little afraid of the heat spreader thickness but i guess there is more headroom for those who like to lap their cpus and do a little more extreme stuff

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TLD LARS

2022-07-20 16:33

reix2x:

It looks very cool to me, i'm a little afraid of the heat spreader thickness but i guess there is more headroom for those who like to lap their cpus and do a little more extreme stuff

Thickness is good, it spreads the heat better to the entire Heatspreader for a better thermal transfer to the cooler. Thickness also helps against warped CPUes when using LGA brackets.

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tunejunky

2022-07-20 17:10

reix2x:

It looks very cool to me, i'm a little afraid of the heat spreader thickness but i guess there is more headroom for those who like to lap their cpus and do a little more extreme stuff

it's really necessary 'cuz of the (micro) point-source heating of juiced uArch on a smaller node. AMD has rarely changed the heatspreader/socket design, but now needs the thermal reserves if "every" AM5 can hit 5GHz. oddly enough the larger the heat source is, the easier the cooling (even including X299) as the area of (contact) thermal transfer allows for radiant cooling effects (until saturation) at closer to a 1:1 ratio. this will be very interesting for Meteor Lake, but ML will be a huge improvement in reversing Intel's slide to ever greater tdps...so actually the heatspreader on RL is the "state of Intel's art" and has an even higher thermal reserve than the Zen4 heatspreader. but has not had to deal with cooling the 7nm or below nodes until now.

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schmidtbag

2022-07-20 17:20

tty8k:

I don't really care how it looks like. Supporting AM4 coolers is actually a great thing. Look at the mess we have with LGA 1700, could barely find anything for it (including brakets for existing coolers)

It looks like I should be able to use my Asus Arctic Square, which I've had since socket 939 and was compatible with 754 and 775. I don't use all of the mounting hardware that the heatsink comes with for AM4 but I haven't needed it anyway. Crazy how a cooler can have about 20 years worth of compatibility, though honestly, it's kinda stupid how compatibility for mainstream CPUs ever breaks in the first place.

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waltc3

2022-07-20 18:18

mackintosh:

Man, that thing's fugly.

"What it looks like" has always been the province of Mac users...who value superficiality far more than substance...;) To quote tty8k, who cares what the darned thing looks like?...;) It sits under a heat-sink, remember. The CPU is form following function, which is A-OK with me.

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0blivious

2022-07-20 20:02

This thing that will be immediately covered up by a cooler, never to be seen again until obsolete, placed in a bin.... Just look at it. It looks so much better than I remember mine looking. I must have it.

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