Intel’s latest stock CPU cooler tested: is this the end for additional CPU coolers?

PC Gamer: When Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs arrived in the PC Gamer labs a few months ago, one of the things that really surprised me was the size of the retail heatsink supplied with the top end Core i7 2600K. I could be wrong, but I don’t remember seeing one as small as this since the days of the Pentium 3.

I’m a sucker for hotrod-style copper heatpipes snaking their way up a gleaming tower of aluminium fins, but I do hope that the potential of this latest generation of processors should make heatsink manufacturers start to think a little more creatively.