Intel Haswell-E to get improved stock boxed cooler
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Battlefieldprin
well I guess most people who want to grab haswell e cpus are not going to be interested in the stock cooler ........
Digibetus
Are you sure it will be boxed with Haswell-E?
Normally the "-E" lines don't come with a cooler.
It is the stock cooler, just not boxed with the processors as far as i know.
BLEH!
I like to keep one of these things around for emergencies.
TheDeeGee
Boxed with a Noctua NH-D15 :P
FULMTL
Too bad you can't just stack them together to make a MEGA VOLTRON HEATSINK.
fantaskarsef
They should have left the stock cooler the way it was and give the buyers a discount of a few quid, since I wouldn't see anybody using it except in the uttermost emergency.
Fender178
Well I give Intel an A for effort because they are not using those stupid push pin coolers that they have been using I think some time during the socket 775 era. We will have to wait and see how effective these new coolers are compared to the standard haswell and devils canyon coolers. I think they will be more effective.
schmidtbag
Agreed - I always keep my heatsinks, including ones from defective motherboards and power supplies. I have a small drawer full of different kinds. It's not just good for emergencies but once in a while I get a CPU that never came with a heatsink (or it was for a BTX board where they use different mounts). Once in a while I encounter a board where the northbridge is just a little too hot and I think "hmm, I better replace this". I also sometimes use them for other non-PC related projects.
Terradorvite
This.
undeadpolice
Not only that, I always use stock coolers to test the system before installing custom water cooling blocks.
Fender178
I am hoping that Intel will use similar coolers for their Broadwell CPUs and what ever the Sky one is called.
scoter man1
I always use my heatsinks for high powered LED's or TEC projects 😀
Fender178
Or the Haswell/Devils Canyon CPUs. I have seen pictures of those and they look horrendous.
schmidtbag
I've never installed a water block but if I were, I can definitely see that as being good practice.
tsunami231
that is STILL a terrible cooler even if it a "improvement"
icedman
they could save themselves and us alot of money by just not inculding this garbage especialy with the k models. They could reduce a ton of weight and space for shipping and we wouldnt be stuck with garbage.
schmidtbag
While I definitely agree that it'd be better if intel (and AMD for that matter) would stop shipping heatsinks, what a lot of you don't realize is regardless of you THINKING they're bad, they're sufficient and were packaged with the CPU to help protect these companies from stupid people who put on the wrong heatsink, or didn't put one on at all. Yes, the CPU will run hot, but it should still perform fine.
If you really want to avoid getting heatsinks, go with server models. Many of those don't come with one.
icedman
I agree that they should be sent with the non K models but anybody buying a K model should know what theyre doing since theyre made for overclocking.
Fox2232
^Actually I was surprised how cool a10-7850k is on stock cooler + stock clock. With custom fan profile like on MSI boards you can keep it under 60°C while gaming on APU = CPU+iGP.
But yes, I believe they should have availability of same CPUs with and without cooler.
