Sand Bridge-E Bundles Closed Loop LC!

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Epsilon-Zero

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Xbit Labs just confirmed that Sandy Bridge-E will ship with the Intel branded Asetek closed loop water cooler.

Intel Confirms Plan to Bundle LGA2011 Chips with Own-Brand Liquid Coolers.

Intel to Bundle and Sell Liquid Coolers Separately

Intel Corp. recently confirmed intentions to bundle liquid cooling systems into boxes with its next-generation Core i7-3000-series central processing units (CPUs) code-named Sandy Bridge-E. The firm also decided that it would sell the coolers separately so that to address other platforms. The actual devices will be made by Asetek and sold under Intel brand.

The bundled liquid-based thermal solution – to be offered with boxed microprocessors and sold separately - will be the first time for Intel to officially support enthusiast-class coolers and will also create an additional selling point of Intel’s next-generation Sandy Bridge E-series (SNB-E) microprocessors in LGA2011 form-factor. Besides, bundling liquid cooler with a CPU will indisputably increase popularity of such solutions among overclocking community.

Intel-brand sealed liquid coolers will sport Asetek-made waterblock as well as a large 12cm fan. The coolers will also be Intel's first cooling products sold separately from microprocessors. Pricing of the new coolers is unknown.
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Sandybridge-E must generate some serious heat for Intel to bundle an LC solution with their processesor. :eek:
Now the question is how is this going to affect the price? :(
 
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RyanGreener

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Yeah, I'm guessing these things are going to be beasts either in heat generation or in overclocking :)
 
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Epsilon-Zero said:
Sandybridge-E must generate some serious heat for Intel to bundle an LC solution with their processesor. :eek:
Now the question is how is this going to affect the price? :(
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More like amd is doing it for FX extreme, and so is intel?

Sort of whoever did it first, will have the competition following close second.



Secondly, imagine if 2500k/2600k had a mid to high end air cooler bundled with it - what would teh stock speed be? 3,8 boost to 4,4?,4,5?



The shitty stock coolers on mainstream non E products pretty much also set limits to how much you can clock them @ at, both for AMD / Intel.


SandyBridge just proves (and so does bulldozer) that higher clocks are entirely possible but the majority doesn't need it, so thus the extra expense (presumably) isn't worth it for either company sans their Enthusiast parts.


SB is a severely underclocked chip out of the box, period.


Similiar you could say the performance/noise/value of closed WC loops have just progressed to the point where it makes sense for Enthuasiast chips to come with them adding more value to OEM Gaming Builders.

There's tons of "BUY YOUR ULTIMATE 9xx I7 GAMING PC DUAL GPU!" - they'd be able to increase selling points/value of just changing a bios setting for clients who are dumb as fuck with lots of money.
 
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Epsilon-Zero said:
Sandybridge-E must generate some serious heat for Intel to bundle an LC solution with their processesor. :eek:
Now the question is how is this going to affect the price? :(
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Or possibly there is an alternative reason, or additional reason, for the bundling.

Have you really examined how close the RAM slots are to the cpu socket on the X79 motherboards? Look at this MSI X79 board Anandtech pictured from IDF with all the RAM slots populated.....

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4793/x79-motherboards-from-gigabyte-msi-at-idf-2011


I can see large tower coolers blocking off at least one slot per side, negating the ability to use half the RAM slots you paid for. This cooling solution won't block any RAM slots.
 
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Meghan54 said:
Or possibly there is an alternative reason, or additional reason, for the bundling.

Have you really examined how close the RAM slots are to the cpu socket on the X79 motherboards? Look at this MSI X79 board Anandtech pictured from IDF with all the RAM slots populated.....

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4793/x79-motherboards-from-gigabyte-msi-at-idf-2011


I can see large tower coolers blocking off at least one slot per side, negating the ability to use half the RAM slots you paid for. This cooling solution won't block any RAM slots.
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I see all the heat bellowing up in the RAM. IMO a design flaw but probably part of the architecture. Those water coolers are a must have for X79 it seems.
 
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Meghan54 said:
I can see large tower coolers blocking off at least one slot per side, negating the ability to use half the RAM slots you paid for. This cooling solution won't block any RAM slots.
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I'm guessing that there are already coolers that have been made to cater for a new motherboard layout. Noctua already has a cooler that has a high probability that it would fit LGA2011 and also assuming that LGA2011 is monstrous in size and there is sufficient clearance for some heatsinks.
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I do like the mounting mechanism of LGA2011 though as it seems that a back plate might not be required. Just screw in 4 bolts at 4 corners of the socket and mount the heatsink directly.
 
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Does anyone know if there will be brackets (possibly universal) that will be available to use 1366 heatsinks on 2011? I believe the hole spacing is the same, but the height may be a little off.
 
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That is a nice setup but I perfer the tower style coolers. Closed loop water cooling systems seem to underperform for the price.
 
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Meghan54 said:
Or possibly there is an alternative reason, or additional reason, for the bundling.

Have you really examined how close the RAM slots are to the cpu socket on the X79 motherboards? Look at this MSI X79 board Anandtech pictured from IDF with all the RAM slots populated.....

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4793/x79-motherboards-from-gigabyte-msi-at-idf-2011


I can see large tower coolers blocking off at least one slot per side, negating the ability to use half the RAM slots you paid for. This cooling solution won't block any RAM slots.
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You made a good point, I havent really seen any X79 air coolers showcased yet.

Maybe I missed them?:confused:

Or maybe Intel dropped them a line that they would be bundling an LC cooler with Sandy Bridge-E?

If the bundling is indeed true and comes standard at the CPU prices that were previously leaked, then Intel may have affectively shut out alot of air cooling companies, which knowing Intel sounds entirely plausible.
 
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Meghan54 said:
Or possibly there is an alternative reason, or additional reason, for the bundling. Have you really examined how close the RAM slots are to the cpu socket on the X79 motherboards? Look at this MSI X79 board Anandtech pictured from IDF with all the RAM slots populated.....
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those images can't be real. you can't have quad ch ram and six slots. whats that all about.

Also just because we do not see any new air coolers and intel/amd bundling corsair cooling, doesn't mean anything either. I am sure many will offer new brackets for current coolers. There is no way that you would be limited to these coolers
 
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Infrnl said:
those images can't be real. you can't have quad ch ram and six slots. whats that all about.

Also just because we do not see any new air coolers and intel/amd bundling corsair cooling, doesn't mean anything either. I am sure many will offer new brackets for current coolers. There is no way that you would be limited to these coolers
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It's explained in the short article.

An oddity here is ASRock's choice of six DDR3 DIMM slots for a platform with four memory channels. Among channels A, B, C, and D, channels B and D have two DIMM slots. So users with four memory modules to spare should populate the six slots as "1-0-1---1-0-1", in which the middle slot in each of the two sets of DIMM slots is left blank. Assuming this board supports 16 GB module densities, a total of 96 GB of memory is supported.
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What kind of maintenance does this kind of cooler require? Is it necessary to change the liquid (water?) from time to time?
 
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dma0991 said:
I'm guessing that there are already coolers that have been made to cater for a new motherboard layout. Noctua already has a cooler that has a high probability that it would fit LGA2011 and also assuming that LGA2011 is monstrous in size and there is sufficient clearance for some heatsinks.
triple_stack.jpg


I do like the mounting mechanism of LGA2011 though as it seems that a back plate might not be required. Just screw in 4 bolts at 4 corners of the socket and mount the heatsink directly.
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Wouldn't the world be a better place if everybody just made low profile memory instead of strapping those ridiculous fins to their DIMMS?
 
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drizek said:
Wouldn't the world be a better place if everybody just made low profile memory instead of strapping those ridiculous fins to their DIMMS?
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Well people are buying them so obviously marketing trick of big heatspreader for faster memory works ;)

Meanwhile I'm enjoying my gskill ecos ;)
 
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