Hardware question on cooling

[Richard Haselgrove]

And now I've taken my life in my hands, and opened up the Intel GPU to crunch for Einstein. Doing the cut-down tasks they issue for this hardware in ~12 minutes - that's equivalent to doing the normal GPU tasks (pack of 16) in something over three hours. My 9800GT takes about two hours, so the HD 4000 is about 60% - 65% of a 9800GT.

HWMonitor is saying that the 'GT' component of the i7 is drawing about 11W, which has taken me a tad over rated TDP - I hope the Noctua can keep up. But not an output/power ratio to be sneezed at.

[Jason G]

mmm, sounds not too bad efficiency-wise