{"id":80087,"date":"2015-08-17T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80087"},"modified":"2015-08-17T12:31:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T10:31:01","slug":"intels-most-advanced-reference-cooler-to-date-the-ts15a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80087-intels-most-advanced-reference-cooler-to-date-the-ts15a","title":{"rendered":"Intel\u2019s most advanced reference cooler to date: the TS15A"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pricey as Intel\u2019s new-fangled i7-6700K and i5-6600K are<\/a>, you won\u2019t find the usual reference cooler from Intel included.<\/p>\n

In fact, you won\u2019t find any sort of included cooler with their latest range of unlocked Skylake CPUs.<\/p>\n

Shooting for the upper echelons of performance, and designed with serious gamers, overclockers and PC enthusiasts in mind, Intel thought it better to remove the reference cooler no one will use from the packaging.<\/p>\n

\"Intel<\/a>

The box art for these new processors was designed with gamers in mind; you can tell.<\/p><\/div>\n

And it makes sense, if only to lower the price a tad \u2013 we suspect it has.<\/p>\n

Instead, Intel expects those who purchase their unlocked enthusiast-grade CPUs to make use of high performance aftermarket air or water cooling solutions.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean that they aren\u2019t going to take a whack at it themselves, however, having worked on their best performing cooler to date.<\/p>\n

\"Intel<\/a>

Intel TS15A Reference cooler (Fan and heat sink).<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Intel<\/a>

Intel TS15A Reference cooler (base).<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

PC store and component retailer Akiba PC Hotline<\/a>, located in Japan, has started to sell Intel\u2019s newest TS15A air cooler.<\/p>\n

Straight away, as seen in the images above, it\u2019s noticeably larger than prior reference coolers and should make for a better cooler as a result.<\/p>\n

Designed for their latest LGA1151 socket type and using a 4-pin connector, the TS15A (BXTS15A) cooler sports a rather larger heat sink.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it uses a relatively small fan, likely resulting in a louder and less capable cooler than most aftermarket solutions.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also apparently quite expensive, going for \u00a55162 ($41.5, or R535.29) \u2013 expect it to cost a little more than that in SA after inflation.<\/p>\n

There are a number of capable aftermarket solutions available for that price online, so it\u2019s going to be a hard sell.<\/p>\n

\"Intel<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We realise that, for the moment at least, its aftermarket sale doesn\u2019t exactly qualify it as a \u201creference cooler\u201d, but we\u2019re fairly sure it\u2019s going to be included within the rest of the Skylake range<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s the case, it should make for some very competitive CPUs to be sure.<\/p>\n

\n

Source: KitGuru<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Let’s keep running with this theme of power<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NVIDIA announces GTX 990M: to be more powerful than GTX 980M SLI<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. building first Exascale Supercomputer: that\u2019s 514,033 PS4s<\/a><\/p>\n

NVIDIA Pascal cards sport 17 billion transistors and 32GB of HBM2 VRAM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And it’s a lot chunkier too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":80095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11572,10754,15355,1085,1727,15353,1969,10462,11568,15359,15357],"class_list":["post-80087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-14nm","tag-air-cooling","tag-cpu-cooler","tag-hardware-2","tag-intel","tag-lga1151","tag-news-2","tag-reference-cooler","tag-skylake","tag-thermal-solution","tag-ts15a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}