Will an original Intel heatsink/fan for an LGA1156 i7 860 work for an LGA2011 i7 3820? Got new CPU today. Getting new motherboard tomorrow. Need to know if I need to pick up a new heatsink/fan also.

As far as I understand, all these sockets fit physically with the CPUs, i.e. you can put a 2011-1 or 2011-3 CPU on an "ordinary" LGA2011 socket but it will not work as they are not electrically ...

Cooler Master, a pioneer in thermal solutions, has recently introduced to the public their latest CPU cooler fully compatible with LGA2011 right out of the box; the Hyper 412S. With the Hyper 412S, ...

Use a Noctua cooler? Upgrading to Sandy Bridge-E/LGA2011 in a few months when its released? Well, Noctua have continued their tradition of supplying their customers with SecuFirm2 mountings free of ...

We measure the CPU temperature of our test rigs when the CPU is idle (Windows desktop) and under load (by running the smallfft test in Prime95). We use the freeware application CoreTemp to measure the ...

Websites are reporting that Intel is planning on releasing a new flagship processor in Q4 of this year. The new processor, called the i7-3970X, will utilize the LGA2011 socket and take the title of ...

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Coolink today presented its first CPU cooler to support the upcoming Intel LGA2011 platform for Core i7-3000 series Sandy Bridge-E processors. Based on the award winning Corator DS, the new Corator DS ...

We place our test rigs under load using the Small FFTs stress test in the free application Prime95, as this test is designed to place maximum load on the CPU and minimum load on the system's memory.

Noctua is a high-end Austrian company with a decided focus on the upper-end of air cooling—the company's cheapest heatsink/fan combo is the NH-U9B for $59, while other coolers run as high as $86.