AMD Bulldozer Water Cooler Review - PAGE 1

Since the debut of integrated circuits, manufacturers have packed more and more transistors into them. This, coupled with the increase in frequencies, has yielded processors with increasingly higher TDPs that the decrease in capacitive charge and voltage could not overcome. It's hard to envision making processors over ~125W TDP, which already is generally accepted as an unspoken maximum limit.

It was previously revealed in Neoseeker's recent AMD Bulldozer review that the top-end processor, the FX-8150, was going to be made available with a water cooler instead of a standard heatsink, and rumors further suggest that Intel will at some point do the same with its Sandy Bridge E parts. Even though Bulldozer fits within the 125W TDP, once overclocking is thrown into the mix, today's processors will go well beyond that, which is why it might be useful to offer better cooling out of the box, especially when AMD markets the FX-8150 as a processor made for overclocking with its fully-unlocked multipliers.

Neoseeker has now managed to test the upcoming stock water cooling system, which is manufactured by Asetek. It's basically the same unit as the Antec Kühler H₂0 920 except for one esthetic difference, which will be shown later.

There are no specifications available except for the fans provided by Everflow.

Specifications are courtesy of Everflow @ http://www.everflowtech.com/products/product_detail.asp?product_no=1225P9