Friday, December 30, 2011

Intel to bundle Liquid Cooling with Retail Sandy Bridge-E Processors?

First news of Intel bundling a liquid cooler with its high performance processors appeared back in Apr this year. Intel made a reference to it during it's developer's forum at that time.
 With processors being built with dynamic clocking, they can be used in both directions. One is to slow down to clock to slow down and thus reduce power consumption. On the other hand you could "overclock" to get the last ounce of performance out of them. Thermal dissipation will obviously increase. Overclocking has been the tricks used by enthusiasts, particularly gaming guys, to squeeze out the last bit of performance. Liquid cooling has been a trick used by this crowd. Now by providing this option Intel is letting board designers and hence anyone needing it, the option of getting enhanced performance through this. Last checked, it is actually being offered now. This is how it is being offered according to Tom's Hardware.

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