Early Ivy Bridge Sample Tested

[RPGWiZaRD]

Why are you assuming the cause of running hotter is higher leakage?

Because

- Stock temps looks a lot better and the temp seems to rise at the higher clocks a lot faster than the increase in voltage required.
- Subzero-OC friendly
- Comparing 45nm to 22nm with barely any performance increases I doubt Intel decision makers would just pat the back of the engineers and say good job making 10% faster chip with 50%+ higher temp.
- 40C temp differences only due to different internal designs when going from a 45nm to 22nm process seems to go out of the border what's realistic "goals" using common sense. Maybe if we're talking about entirely different kind of company/resources/devices whatever but not for such a large scale important player in the IT business.

Leakage makes more sense than Intel accepting a design which would be the cause of such a large boost in temp as if it's leakage it would only be a prob at clock frequencies which are way out of their targeted clock range (no big deal if it does handle the targeted clocks good enough)