Intel Core i7-5960X – eight cores 3.0GHz, 140W TDP

At last the big Intel Haswell-E cores are coming. There will be three different CPU's One with eight cores - i7-5960X - 3GHz and two with six cores i7-5930K - 3.5GHz and i7-5820K - 3.3GHz. All of the CPU's are with TDP of 140W and like you can see on the eight core i7-5930K it's with reduced operating frequency in order to keep the TDP in the 140W limits.

New i7 Haswell-E CPUs - image from legitreviews.com

All of the CPU/s will support Hyper-Threading which means that the top CPU will have 16 logical cores and the other two 12 logical cores. The interesting things is that they wont support ECC server memory but they will support DDR4 memory and they will need Intel X99 Express motherboard to work.

The price tag expected for them is 999$ for the top CPU and around 600$ for the other two. Of-course there is time before this cpu-s comes to the market so lets see what Intel will have in mind about them.

AMD will add SATA Express

AMD will follow Intel and will add SATA Express in their new chip sets. SATA Express is the new upcoming interface for storage devices. Basically it is two SATA connectors bounded together. But SATA3 offers 6GB/s transfer rate and SATA Express offers 10GB/s. So this mean that two GB/s transfer speed has been lost somewhere on the road. But there are still benefits of it. Since on the market has been introduced PCI-Express solid stated drives (SSD) which allows better performance over SATA-connected device, the engineers of the big companies are trying to improve the storage device interfaces. This comes on the table especially after the improvement of the SSD technology. So for now the SATA-Express is something like doubled SATA3 interface.
The new SATA-Express and the old SATA3 connectors will be compatible and SATA3 hard-drive could be connected straight to the new connector.
Some companies like ASUS already said that their future motherboards will be SATA-Express compliant. AMD will pay to ASMedia for SIP (silicon intellectual property) for the rights to integrate the new interface controller straight in to its chips. In this way the price of the motherboard will be lower because no extra chips will be placed. And AMD will be paying licence fee for every chip with SATA-Express.

(ASMedia Technology is subsidiary of ASUSTek Computer)

Intel Devil’s Canyon 4790K - first 4GHz Intel Core CPU

Intel will produce new Intel Core CPU - I7-4790K with base clock frequency 4GHz and boost frequency of 4.4GHz. This information comes from EXPReview.com,  accoridng to them from leaked information from pdf file.
This is 500MHz higher clock frequency than I7-4770K or 20%higher. Not only the frequncy will be higher but the CPU will have special thermal compound between the crystal itself and the metal box of the CPU. This should ensure normal work temperatures at the higher clock frequency.

The CPU's  will be picked up to ensure that they are units capable of better overclocking. This and the special thermal interface material will probably mean that the price will be higher than the "normal" I7-4770K.

Redux - the new Noctua fan series

The new series Redux of Noctua is now on the market. Many gamers has complained that the two standard colours of Noctua - light brown and red brown are not always appropriate to blend in al other colors inside the PC case. On other hand Noctua wants to keep their products distinct from the other products on the market. And their little bit strange colors are exactly what gives their unique look. Actually it is enough to see part of the fan to see the brown color and you can say: "Oh, yes Noctua." And this is exactly what Noctua wants. A time ago they have released industrial series of fans. In these fans they have put small brown plastic at the corners of the fan, keeping everything else black, again the brown color was speaking "Noctua". This time their series Redux is coming and it seems that it color scheme is completely different. Actually there is no tiny nuance of brown anywhere, the whole fan, the frame and the propeller are completely grey - no other colors. The one thing that they kept is that the frame is lighter and the propeller darker.

So Redux... the new series on the market. Technically they are completely the same like the normal Noctua fan. But they come with reduced price. How this happens? Simple by sending less accessors in the package. Its possible that the company wants to get more market share going in the middle class segment of the market.

The available models are 13 the models names are NF-P14, NF-S12B, NF-B9 и NF-R8. The rotating speed varies between 700RPM and 1800RPM. There are five 14cm models - all with square frames only NF-P14r comes with round frame. Three versions of S12B the 12cm models and three versions of the R8 models. B9 models comes in only 2 models.

Anyway if you want to put the silent Noctua fan inside you PC now you can do this on more affordable price. The 14cm fans will cost 15.90eu, the 12cm 13.90eu, the 92mm will cost 11.90eu and the 80mm - 10.90eu.

Quiet fanless CPU cooler - Silverstone Heligon HE02

The fanless CPU cooler!

The fanless SPU coolers are something very interesting. They need to pull away the heat from the CPU and to dissipate it in the surrounding air and all this without a fan that blow the heat away!
To achieve this goal the fanless CPU coolers need few things:

1st Huge surface that dissipate the heat.

Few things determinate the heat transfer, the surface, the bigger is better, the airflow, higher speed airflow is better, and the temperature difference between the heated object and the air.

So the huge surface is must have in a fanless design because there is missing the artificial airflow from the fan. as you can see on the picture:

Silverstone Heligon HE02 CPU cooler

As you can see there are a lot of fins increasing the surface - helping the heat transfer.
There are also 6 heat pipes that transfer the heat from the cpu to every single fin, even the last one.

2nd Big size of the CPU cooling tower

Because there is no fan attached, the big size of the cooler helps to take the heat far away from the CPU where it can be spread without heating the CPU back or keeping the cooler at higher temperature.
Here are the sizes of the cooler:

Silverstone Heligon HE02 dimensions

3rd A little bit surprisingly but.... Airflow!

Surprisingly but the heat sink still needs and airflow to spread the heat in the air. But here is the tricky part.
The Heligon HE02 is counting on natural convection of the air to take the heat away. And the natural convection is not very powerful. In order to ensure enough airflow - the heat sink is made with large space between the fins compared to the CPU coolers with fan. In this way its easier for the air to move through the fins.
Of course this mean that on same size you can put less number of fins that's why the Silverstone decided to make the fins with bigger surface. As you can see on the picture above with the dimensions the cooler is wider that its taller with 170 x 130 mm wide and 160 mm - tall this is pretty much one big cubic chunk of copper and aluminium!

Specifications of Heligion HE02

Dimension: 170mm(W) x 130mm(D) x 160mm (H)

CPU TDP: Fanless 95W (varies depending on chassis airflow)
                  Fanless with 120mm fan in case > 900rpm - 150W
                  1 x 120mm fan – over 150W

Sockets:     Intel Socket LGA775/1150/1155/1156/1366/2011
                  AMD Socket AM2/AM3/FM1/FM2

As you can see even fanless it can cool up to 95W TDP CPUs - these are Anything bellow Intel i5 and for AMD below FX-6300 or FX-4300
If there is one 120mm fan in the PC case. The TDP jumps to 150W. This mean that if there is one 120mm fan located near the cooler that helps the airflow you can cool i7 or FX-8xxx.
If you attach one fan to the heat sink itself you can use this cooler to overclock CPUs with power over 150W!