Review: Intel Thermal Solution RTS2011AC (Socket 2011)

The Intel Thermal Solution for the 2011 socket may not look like a big deal when it comes to cooling a processor, a pretty cheap air cooler sharing looks with older air solutions from Intel it does what it's supposed to do, cool the processor to sweet temperatures, let's have a closer look.

As you can see the fan itself was tested in a pretty ventilated system.


To make a long story short, you get more than what you pay for, this little darling idles a clocked i7 3820 at around 35c and under load in
Batttlefield 4 it lands somewhere around 55-60c.




Best suited for: an aircooled and stable non clocked system.

Overclock friendly: for testing only, not as a permanent solution.

Remarks: it is a tiny little horizontal fan driven cooling solution that delivers good cooling to a non overclocked socket 2011 system. 
                  if you run the fan at full speed better temps will follow but nothing fancy, although you will get the sound of a mini helicopter.
Other uses: it could come in handy some time (your waterblock leaked or something similar) when you need a spare temporary solution. 
                      In other words, its so cheap that you could have one of these laying around for a rainy day.