14 DAY TRIAL // High-end central processing units need equally high-quality cooling modules, and while there will no doubt be many OEM-made coolers for the Intel Haswell-E CPU series, Chipzilla has decided to make sure even the stock option was above average.
Rumors still seem undecided on just when the Haswell-E series of high-end, extreme performance central processing units from Intel will make their official debut.
Some rumors have been painting the month of October as the likeliest ETA, while others have pegged September 14 as the launch date. Maybe the paper launch will be in September, but the shipments will only start the following months.
Whatever the case, we aren't far from the release of the monstrosities, this Core i7 HEDT platform composed of the Core i7-5960X, Core i7-5930K, and Core i7-5820K.
We looked at the specifications of the Haswell-E line previously, so we won't be doing it again here. Suffice to say they are beasts with up to 8 cores and performance greater than any other desktop CPU. Haswell-E will ship for the same length of time as Broadwell-based “normal” CPUs.
What we still had little knowledge about, however, at least until now, was the cooling of the chip. And we don't just mean the fact that the die is soldered to the integrated heatsink.
That's important, sure enough, but it's still the cooler that, in the end, makes sure the chip doesn't fail form overheating or, worse, catch fire.
The folks at KitGuru were kind enough to supply the world with the first pictures of the Haswell-E cooler, and it looks like it's an updated model compared to the Ivy Bridge-E.
Known only by its codename of TS13A, the cooler can cope with 140W of heat, which is exactly the TDP (thermal design power) of the 6- and 8-core units. It has a height of 75 mm (previous ones were of 63 mm) and a copper base.
The base connects to a copper heat column that acts as the “core rod” of the heatsink. As for the fins, they are both curved and bifurcated, for extra heat dissipation area.
All in all, it's a decent cooler, if one that will, nevertheless, see very little actual use on the part of buyers. People with the cash to acquire one of these beasts will no doubt have the funds to get a high-end, OEM cooler as well, possibly a liquid-based system, assuming they don't just jump straight into liquid nitrogen-enabled overclocking.
