Kash,
Also the RAS of a single CPU system should be much higher than a dual/quad
system.
CPU chips or support chips aren't what tend to fail. They have FIT rates in the low double digits. It's hard drives, wires, boards, fans, anything mechanical, or cooling that fail at rates orders of magnitude more than chips. A Kryotech cooled system, IMO, will have very little chance of selling to anyone more serious than a home user, because of the inherently much higher chance of failure of anything non-semiconductor. And, that very little chance will be only if the Kryotech cooling system can demonstrate enough redundancy to result in a no single point of failure (NSPF). Back to the home user, what's he going to be doing to warrant goosing a machine to 1 GHz? I'd much rather have a 700 MHz PIII with RDRAM and air cooling myself. I'll sleep better at night knowing I have to do something important on it in the morning. No, I don't think the Kryos will sell except to the "mine's bigger than yours" types that have no regard for reliability.
Tony |
