Intel's Thermal Solution TS15A Spotted

What would be cool is if you turn in the UPC for the processor, they ship one of those out for free.
 
No wonder they are not shipping a cooler with the chip:

1) they're embarrassed

2) It's H-U-G-E and ugly.:eek:
 
It's for OEM's. Which 99% of those users will have no idea it even exists.
 
Might be a pretty nice cooler, actually. Plus, 3 years warranty isn't terrible. Waiting for o/c reviews!
 
It'd have to be insanely cheap for an end user to justify buying one...maybe 10 bucks? I recall buying a cheap Thermalright knockoff for 20 bucks 3 or 4 years ago, and it cooled better and was significantly quieter.
 
HydroBudz said:
It's for OEM's. Which 99% of those users will have no idea it even exists.
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Have my updoot.

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magoo said:
No wonder they are not shipping a cooler with the chip:

1) they're embarrassed

2) It's H-U-G-E and ugly.:eek:
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Huger than other pointlessly gigantic coolers out there? I mean really, have you looked at the absurdly dumb things people use to cool a CPU? Like those water cooler things with the GIANT block of fins, tubes, and multiple fans are easily 600x bigger and a ton more heavy, awkward, useless, and dangerously filled with liquids.

Though you do have a point in general. If you NEED something that big to keep your processor cool, something is seriously wrong since you can cool off most laptops with a tiny little copper pipe and a blower fan. There's just no excuse for making processors that require this much metal to not overhead and die.
 
bds1904 said:
Intel: taking the golden orb to a new level

Lol
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Tt Golden Orbs sucked too. :p

I don't mind the stock Intel coolers. The only problem with most is they're undersized. For OEMs, the TS15A seems fine. I don't know why any consumers would buy one directly for a build.
 
For dramatic effect, they placed it next to the lowest end of their cooler line. They ship the thin one on the right with their low end CPU's that have the least amount of heat (e.g. i3's, Pentium's, Celeron's). The one they ship with quad core chips is sized inbetween the 2 heatsinks shown.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
Huger than other pointlessly gigantic coolers out there? I mean really, have you looked at the absurdly dumb things people use to cool a CPU? Like those water cooler things with the GIANT block of fins, tubes, and multiple fans are easily 600x bigger and a ton more heavy, awkward, useless, and dangerously filled with liquids.

Though you do have a point in general. If you NEED something that big to keep your processor cool, something is seriously wrong since you can cool off most laptops with a tiny little copper pipe and a blower fan. There's just no excuse for making processors that require this much metal to not overhead and die.
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Well energy (wattage) = heat. Those 7w processors... but I understand you are trolling you creepy uncle.
 
bds1904 said:
Intel: taking the golden orb to a new level

Lol
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hah! the golden orb had fans that were inside the heatsink, not on top! They were terrible too. I think I had one on my 1.4 tbird, might of been older like on my P3, essentially OC'ing was terrible as it wasn't any better than stock!
 
CaptNumbNutz said:
For dramatic effect, they placed it next to the lowest end of their cooler line. They ship the thin one on the right with their low end CPU's that have the least amount of heat (e.g. i3's, Pentium's, Celeron's). The one they ship with quad core chips is sized inbetween the 2 heatsinks shown.
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Actually, not lately.

I bought a G3258 to test my new setup before I could afford something better: A Xeon E3 1231 v3. (Effectively equivalent to an i7 4790)... Both had the exact same 'lowest end' stock heatsink included.
 
felt said:
not sure that's something worth bragging about...

come back when your friend has the AMD r9 fury x2:D
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What I'm pointing out is that I'm from a small country, and we're about as far south in New Zealand as you can get, and they're out and about...
 
haste. said:
Well energy (wattage) = heat. Those 7w processors... but I understand you are trolling you creepy uncle.
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Okay, then what's the difference between a processor with an obnoxious water cooler and the heatsink that comes in the box with the processor? Nothing at all because the CPU is just running like a few degrees lower in temperature which doesn't mean anything at all since it still processes the same amount of data in the same period of time and puts the same amount of heat energy into the air in whatever room its located. The only thing that happened there is that the dork-brain that bought a water cooler thing is now unable to spend the difference in cost on something else.

You say, "Oh but CUG, there's overclockings and FPSeses to get! Sweeeeet precious FPSeses, yes!" Which is pretty much meaningless since the only processors that aren't locked now are the fastest ones anyway and if you overclock them it means the difference between 102 FPS and 108 FPS as CPU performance doesn't as significantly contribute to the performance difference in most games as does a newer/faster graphics card. So assuming you overclocked, you also managed to spend a bunch of time accomplishing nothing meaningful on top of the money spent on a premium CPU and the absurd water cooler.
 
If they increase the MSRP of the K series of processors by even $10, its a bad idea. I end up tossing out each of heat sinks that i end up with as they are useless if you plan to OC.
 
Looks oversized and just as ugly as the generic Intel stock heatsink and I wouldn't be surprised if this failed to perform against third party coolers, even their water cooler sucked compared to other budget water coolers, Intel may be great at making CPU's but I cannot recommend their cooling solutions.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
Okay, then what's the difference between a processor with an obnoxious water cooler and the heatsink that comes in the box with the processor? Nothing at all because the CPU is just running like a few degrees lower in temperature which doesn't mean anything at all since it still processes the same amount of data in the same period of time and puts the same amount of heat energy into the air in whatever room its located. The only thing that happened there is that the dork-brain that bought a water cooler thing is now unable to spend the difference in cost on something else.

You say, "Oh but CUG, there's overclockings and FPSeses to get! Sweeeeet precious FPSeses, yes!" Which is pretty much meaningless since the only processors that aren't locked now are the fastest ones anyway and if you overclock them it means the difference between 102 FPS and 108 FPS as CPU performance doesn't as significantly contribute to the performance difference in most games as does a newer/faster graphics card. So assuming you overclocked, you also managed to spend a bunch of time accomplishing nothing meaningful on top of the money spent on a premium CPU and the absurd water cooler.
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Although I often say I'll OC (and this time I intend to...again), the reality is I buy big obnoxious coolers, because they are more efficient, which means I can run my fans at lower speeds and that means my PC is quieter. Intel fans are significantly louder. Hell, my case with the cover off is quieter than one with an Intel fan with the cover on.
 
nilepez said:
Although I often say I'll OC (and this time I intend to...again), the reality is I buy big obnoxious coolers, because they are more efficient, which means I can run my fans at lower speeds and that means my PC is quieter. Intel fans are significantly louder. Hell, my case with the cover off is quieter than one with an Intel fan with the cover on.
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Well, of all the reasons to buy a gigantic cooling apparatus for a CPU, that's probably the most reasonable one. After all, it's not fair to the cats that are trying to sleep on your keyboard to have to try to snooze through all that annoying fan noise. :D
 
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