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Intel Branded Water Cooling

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freddiepm61

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In an interview with a guy from intel on viperlair, in answer to the question of 'is air cooling still viable?'
he said:
'Yes, at least for our mainstream parts'
So as Dual Core gives out 130 watts of heat etc. etc.
Intel Branded Watercooling this year and almost certainly next??
I am talking small scale though, so 120/80mm fan, with radiator and reservoir attached to it, and hardpiped as it were to cpu heatsink.....
any thoughts?
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I don't know if something as small as that would offer much improvement over a good sink with heatpipes and a fan.

But, I totally agree with your larger point; they will very likely go that route soon IMHO and it will probably be as small and as sealed as they can make it. They're already reported to be limiting the clockspeed on the first dual cores purely for heat dissipation reasons. So maybe a generation or two after that?

OTOH, we out to be able to OC the crap (percentage-wise) out of those first dual-cores with good water, maybe 3.2->4.2 range? Unless they just take advantage of it to loosen quality control....
 
They wouldn't waste their time and money if it didnt solve their heat problem. I'd say it should be fine.
 
Intel is pushing BTX standard. And it should be suficient to air cool two times more thermal load then what todays CPU produces (Atleast Intel says so). BTX claims to cool GPU and mobo better too.
If they are allready going that way (air cooled BTX) why should they bother with water cooling?


MD
 
freddiepm61 said:
In an interview with a guy from intel on viperlair, in answer to the question of 'is air cooling still viable?'
he said:
'Yes, at least for our mainstream parts'
So as Dual Core gives out 130 watts of heat etc. etc.
Intel Branded Watercooling this year and almost certainly next??
I am talking small scale though, so 120/80mm fan, with radiator and reservoir attached to it, and hardpiped as it were to cpu heatsink.....
any thoughts?
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That's funny. I just brought up this exact point to my manager after seeing this interview posted. Seeing as how Apple is already doing this with the G5, it's only a matter of time.

Of course, if Intel goes ahead with current plans, the Prescott will be phased out, Dothan will be brought to the destktop, and none of this will matter until about three years from now, when Dothan will be pushing enough wattage to demand more exotic cooling.

Matt.
 
According to tomshardware, Intel is already developing a small watercooling setup for prescott, it looked pretty sweet, too.


But, that is tomshardware, and we all know how much we should trust them :-P
 
I'll never buy any watercooling equipment from anyone that wasn't in the game when the game started. (I.E. D-Tek, DD, LR, Swifty) About the furthest from this rule I would consider straying is a Koolance from CrapUSA for a customer looking for something quick and easy and willing to dump a lot of money on moderate cooling performance.
 
cgrant26,

So what you're saying is you wouldn't purchase an Intel solution because they don't know as much as the huge engineering powerhouse companies like DangerDen, Swiftech, and Koolance, right? :p

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Eric
 
etekberg said:
cgrant26,

So what you're saying is you wouldn't purchase an Intel solution because they don't know as much as the huge engineering powerhouse companies like DangerDen, Swiftech, and Koolance, right? :p

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Eric
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etekberg,

So what your saying is that you wouldn't by a xp120 from thermalright because they dont have the same huge engineering reputation as intel does?

Sorry couldn't resist.
 
yeah BTX does look like a good way to eliminate the need for watercooling: direct air-path without creating hot-spots, huge HS area and large&quiet fans - all that which make watercooling attractive. As for Intel watercooling - it'll be in a way of heatpipes or their like ;)
 
I say that they just make phase change units standard and run everything as hot as they want...
 
Erasmus354 said:
etekberg,

So what your saying is that you wouldn't by a xp120 from thermalright because they dont have the same huge engineering reputation as intel does?

Sorry couldn't resist.
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The Intel stock cooler does not perform worse then the xp120 because Intel could not think of anything better. They're built for different end markets, and the new Intel water cooling system will be marketed to the same stock crowd as before.
 
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