9/14/2011 01:05:00 AM
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Intel's next line of Sandy Bridge CPUs may not have totally impressed onlookers when they got previewed, but at least the coolers meant for them will turn some heads once they ship.
Intel intended to ship the Sandy Bridge-E line of central processing units before the end of the ongoing year (2011) but a delay was uncovered not long ago.
It also appears that the chips might not exactly live up to the hype they stirred, at least according to previews.
Whether or not any of the above is true, there is something certain about the upcoming units, and this extends to more than their use of the LGA 2011 socket.
What Intel decided some time ago was that it will no longer ship coolers in the same bundle as the CPUs themselves.
Instead, the Santa Clara, California based corporation will develop own-brand coolers that will ship separately.
Considering the fact that buyers of high-end CPUs, especially overclockers, usually get a different cooler anyway, this wasn't too great a shock.
On the other hand, no real information existed on just what cooling products one could expect to see, something that has finally changed.
Among other things, the IT player will sell an own-brand, closed-loop liquid cooler, one that goes by the name of RTS2011LC.
The closed-loop nature means that it is completely self-contained, so that one needn't set up complicated liquid pumps and tubes step by step.
The cooler, thus, has a pump of its own, flexible but strong tubing and a radiator assembly (reservoir and blue LED-lit fan).
It should be able to cope with the heat generated by chips with a TDP (thermal design power) of up to 130 W.
It should probably be mentioned that, though this is an Intel-branded cooler, the product was actually developed by Asetek. Finally, in addition to Core i7 LGA 2011, LGA 1366 chips are supported by it.
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