Intel Invents 5GHz Stock Cooler

[xxdesmus]

Intel has created a self-contained watercooling unit that will enable the latest Pentium Extreme Edition chips to hit 5GHz with ease.

The cooler has come out of Intel's engineering department, which is staffed with a bunch of enthusiasts who have been trying to push the envelope at Intel to try and get the firm to move away from its 'overclocking is bad, mmmkay' stance.

The team, led by thermal mechanical engineer Gavin Stanley, spent an awful lot of time looking at current watercooling kits and systems on the market. They all shared several flaws, he told us: that they were complex to assemble, had a short life, consisted of too many different parts and used flimsy tubing.

The goal of his team, he laid out, was to come up with a more robust, reliable and efficient way of watercooling the processor.

The answer is this: Intel's Advanced Liquid Cooling prototype. It consists of a block unit which attaches to the processor. This contains the copper core which makes contact with the CPU, as well as a centrifugal pump which uses a DC brushless motor. This pumps the water up through solid metal tubing to a more traditional radiator, cooled by a 120mm fan. The integration of the cold plate improves thermal performance. The main body of the unit is made of injection-moulded plastic.

Intel's R&D labs have the most outrageous equipment for measurements and designing, meaning that this has been designed to last for more than three years without leaking, failing or requiring a top-up of coolant.

Because of the unique elements of the design, such as the centrifugal pump, solid tubing, precise engineering etc, it is ludicrously powerful. We saw a unit up and running, cooling a 3.8GHz Extreme Edition chip to 5.01GHz (with the RAM and FSB overclocked). The temperature on the processor was 62 celcius, well within operating parameters.

The unit will fit ATX and BTX boards. Intel is currently looking to work with a technology partner to developer commercial coolers around this design. Because Intel designed it to be assembled from commonly made parts, final retail coolers are expected to cost less than $50!

We are looking to get our hands on one in a couple of weeks. This looks like it could be the most insane cooler ever created, putting extreme overclocking in the hands of the vast majority of hardware enthusiasts. Watercooling has been done before, but it appears that it takes a company with the expertise and resources that Intel has to really push it to the next level.

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Edited March 8, 2006 by xxdesmus

[tony-inpo]

Looks amazing for the price, looking foward to this.

[AionXn_]

awesome looking forward to this as well

[kiall]

looks gd water cooling is just greta it looks and works great

[xxdesmus]

I just love that fact that we'll get that kind of performance out of a $50 (estimated) water block ...that's great (Y)

[uniacidz]

I think we are gonna see more of this type of stock coolers as the ghz increases.

[Linkin Park]

AMD will most likely come back with something similar and probbly better then this for their processors.

[Eternal1]

Watch the new Conroe chips use these coolers. :cool:

[NeoXY]

AMD will most likely come back with something similar and probbly better then this for their processors.

[sarcasm]Thank you Mr. Trool. What would we have done without your constructive comments...[/sarcasm]

Great to see Intel doing this...a lot of chip users will be very happy :D

[ollie_webbuk]

5Ghz is that it? Pfffffffffffff!

Only joking.

[Eternal1]

Expert OCers will probably be able to push their chips even further. I would LOVE to see what creative geeks can do with this. :D

[Tech Star]

THIS IS GREAT! Inrtel first came back with the Conroe chips that beat amd in ever mark and now this! GO INTEL! :D

Edited March 9, 2006 by HummerT30

[xxdesmus]

can you imagine this beast the conroe? :wub:

AMD will most likely come back with something similar and probbly better then this for their processors.

Do you feel better now? Now that you've defended the honor of your beloved trendy processor? :whistle:

[gigapixels Veteran]

Damn, sounds pretty cool.

[Dark Reaper]

62 degrees Celcius? Seems pretty hot.

You can just get one of those phase coolings which brings your computer down to freezing temperatures. Except it will cost you about $500 for one.

[Bizkit]

I think that will be great when chips start coming with water cooling units. They work great, and can be alot quiter than just a bunch of fans.

[xxdesmus]

62 degrees Celcius? Seems pretty hot.

You can just get one of those phase coolings which brings your computer down to freezing temperatures. Except it will cost you about $500 for one.

Exactly. This isn't supposed to be the coldest option, this is going to be relatively cheap and still quite good :yes:

[Eternal1]

Seems it would be worth it though. I would pay 500 bucks to keep my CPU supercooled. Then I could OC the holy heck out of my CPU.

[Berserk87]

HOLY CRAP! :D

i still wouldnt want my comp running at 62 degrees, mine hits 50 degrees strees'd and i dont like it that high...

[jerry]

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[Linkin Park]

Do you feel better now? Now that you've defended the honor of your beloved trendy processor? :whistle:

Yes, yes I do. :rolleyes:

[xxdesmus]

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Wow that thing even looks sexy ... I totally agree guys, I don't like 62 degrees either, but an overclock like that is going to cause a decent amount of heat...the EE's are pretty darn hot as it is.

[Brandon]

cool but kinda a steep price for a stock cooler

[bryan001]

cool but kinda a steep price for a stock cooler

Ya it is expensive for a stock cooler but it is also Insanely cheep for water cooling :whistle:

[xxdesmus]

anyone else catch this line?

The unit which we looked at kept the CPU perfectly stable but the operating noise was very noticeable.

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