Quote Originally Posted by zir_blazer View Post
If you pick a Ivy Bridge and overclock it to near that Vishera Frequencies, you're consuming around half the power AND have much more performance. Add in that these poor dies should have nearly no overclocking headroom at all, like any other factory overclocked part. Suddently, such a part doesn't makes sense. Its a totally uncompetitive part, and a mere marketing stunt.

I have electricity nearly for free and I would still not even try to run a 220W TDP beast like that one. Why? Because its a ridiculous amount of stress that can make your other components (Mainly Motherboard) to have a premature death, and because the heat has to go somewhere. With air cooling, the heat generated will go directly to your room, let alone the noise a Fan for it will make. I still recall histories about how much warmer a room where a Prescott was felt, that even thinking about what this bad boy will do makes me chill - or worse, sweat.
So there are other types of cooling that don't dissipate the heat into your room?