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Offline NorthWay

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Re: Power 7 CPU - 8 cores
« on: September 02, 2012, 07:12:30 PM »
Quote from: WolfToTheMoon;706155
Power 7 chips have the TDP of a nuclear reactor(they only run, AFAIR, with watter cooling)

No, they run just fine with air. We have plenty of them at work. IBM knows how to move air...

There is a special cabinet that can be connected to water for claimed higher efficiency in the cooling.
 

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Re: Power 7 CPU - 8 cores
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2012, 10:22:17 PM »
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Now my sarcasm detector is failing.
THAT definately was sacasm, wasn't it?

Nope, a P795 does not simply have a fan, it has an Air Moving Device. Which is not a fanblade as might be expected, but a rather big river-boat style shovel(?) - a rotating mousewheel with blades digging into the air as it rotates.
You can _hear_ the box power up from a long way away when that thing starts moving. And that in an already noisy datacenter. It works. The box keeps its cool.