The End Of 3rd Party CPU Coolers?

[Lil' ˝ Dead]

There are lots of extra settings for increasing the voltage to the chip to support faster overclocks, but for the purposes of this experiment, that’s all I changed. The on-board Turbo Boost technology is very clever – when extra performance is required it will increase the speed of the chip as far as possible without letting it overheat, up the maximum ratio set in the BIOS. By increasing the maximum ratio, I’ve basically asked the chip to run as fast as it can with everything else set to default.

To stress test the CPU I set HyperPi to repeatedly calculate the value of pi to 32 million places. That puts all eight CPU threads to work at their maximum load. Turbo Boost kicked in and took the chip to its fastest setting.

For the next 30 minutes, it ran all four cores between 3.8GHz and 4GHz. The top temperature reached was 85 degrees Celcius, which is a little hot, admittedly, but it dropped back down to the low 30s within three minutes of stopping the test. This screen is from Intel’s desktop tuning tool.

That’s pretty astounding. And in games, where the load is rarely 100% all the time, the result was even better. The 2600 regularly ramped itself up to 4.2GHz and stayed there.

All on a tiny, tiny heatsink.

Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/05/17/po...party-coolers/

[Deton]

I'm sure you still need third party cooler because stock cooler is fuggly. The good thing is they don't have to make big ass cooler anymore.

[Nyarlathotep]

Lol, I refuse to not watercool anymore so that's a no go for me.

[Deton]

what do you mean?

with low output heat CPU than you don't have to use high RPM fans = quiet.

Now don't forget the article was talking about SB 2600k. How about when the true 6 or 8 core chips?

[Drdeath]

32nm and 22nm should keep these CPU's cooler. I will say that

[Doctor_Death]

Lol, I refuse to not watercool anymore so that's a no go for me.

You mean Air Cool right ? I know you just installed a LCS.

[Skyguy]

I may retire my 360mm rad/H2O setup on the next gen stuff......and go low noise air cooler. Now, if only they could do the same for GPUs then I'd have a quiet room for once LOL.