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Originally Posted by serialk11r
YIKES intel pushing for liquid cooling? Okay Asetek, eh could be worse. They had some okay watercooling stuff a very long time ago from what I remember. But honestly, a 120mmx120mm radiator is not going to get very far either. IMO Intel should move to slightly larger heatsinks for stock processors, their stock heatsinks were pretty pathetic in the past being just a copper core with aluminum fins.
Also sucks to hear AMD is still slacking...we need more competition in this industry.
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The Corsair Hydra H70 (built by Asetek) was a pretty nice CPU LC kit, second only to Noctua. [Also developed the Antec Kuhler H20 920.] Intel's OE heat sinks are way more than adequate for OC'ing the Sandy Bridge chips (s1155). You can run 4.3GHz 24/7 on an 2600k without breaking a sweat. The 2600k OE cooler is very similar to the Arctic Cooler Pro 7 with a solid copper base, tower style and 3 heat pipes with a 92mm fan. The 2500k OE cooler isn't all as great, but still very capable. They have a built in thermal throttle so even if it starts creeping up to 90c it will turn it down a notch. They've made OC'ing easy and damn near fool proof for
almost everyone.
Personally I like that they're pushing for LC, the more money going into the LC tech the more they'll be able to spend on R&D to improve upon it. Air cooling is pretty much tapped out.
Bulldozer was my last hope for AMD CPU's and they fail... hard. I'm now officially an Intel fan, they innovate and put their money where their mouth is. AMD should take a page from their new GPU department's book and quit playing catch up with their CPU's. I just don't see them ever competing with Intel, they don't have the resources to keep up. Oh well, go Intel.