Every Non-K or X processor from Intel comes packed with this little guy right here,
and I mean little.
Whether it's been by removing fin area or
eliminating performance-enhancing copper slugs,
Intel has been
"costing down" their box cooler for years.
Years!
I mean, to be clear, it is adequate for default operation,
but it would easily be overwhelmed by an overclocked processor.
But what if
Intel made a "stock" heatsink
specifically for K-series and X-series overclockable chips?
Well,
it turns out,
they do!
And it looks pretty much like what you'd expect if
Intel's cooling engineers
- the same ones what bring you this -
were terminally unimaginative
and,
we're told, "well, make
something like that, but that performs a bit better."
So it looks about like the stock cooler on 'roids.
But did the treatment give it better performance, or just
mood swings, fatigue, and a deflated sex drive?
Let's find out!
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Okay, silly intro aside taking the intel
thermal solution
TS-15a out of the box it looks pretty much like somebody took three or so
regular intel stock heat sinks and
glued them together the push mounting pins remain for that easy
Installation and the fan clips on to the top exactly the same way it normally would
Looking more closely at it. Though reveal some differences, so the regular heatsink uses an aluminum
Extrusion process to create the required profile that's great for keeping costs down
But not so great for having thin higher performance fins
So for the TS-15a which will be calling roy D from now on each pin
Here is actually its own
Bent piece of metal that meets at the center
So you can kind of see it here around a copper slug
This increases performance
but also increases manufacturing cost
but how much additional performance
does it actually get you and can you slap a decent overclock on your processor using it?
And then perhaps more importantly at this price
Does it make any sense to actually go and buy this product compared to
larger and
probably
better Coolers? Like the Cooler Master hyper 212 Evo
They are available for as little as only two dollars more
To test this we first ran a couple of other heat sinks on an intel core i7
7700 K at both the stock speed of 4.5 Gigahertz Turbo and A
Modest 4.8 gigahertz overclock that was mostly there to increase its heat output
The stocks and curve was used for these tests
And we also used the thermal compound that comes pre applied to these things out of the box
and
yeah, it couldn't quite do it add the stock speed the roided Cooler was able to pull off a
warm
81 degrees Celsius, but with our
fairly
Reasonable overclock it throttled hard
reaching a hundred degrees
Celsius in about 30 seconds the only thing in our test table here that
performed worse
Than the Roi D Cooler was actually the regular intel stock cooler which immediately throttled
So badly that we just cancelled the test out of pity for both our board and our chip
You know what it's not all terrible news though. I mean it was able to maintain
4.7 Gigahertz in the Point 1 volt offset test which
wasn't really fair because
That makes this chip more like a space heater than a room heater get it cuz like outer space
Anyway, and with a bit of tweaking we were actually able to get this processor up to a stable
4.9 Gigahertz without it thermal throttling
That is to say upstairs where the temperatures are about 5 degrees cooler
Here it is
Definitely thermal throttling, but it's still managing about 4.8. Gigahertz sustained at
100 degrees ok then so it performs a bit worse than a hyper 212 Evo
dome product video over right
wrong if I'm investing
33 of my hard-earned dollars plus shipping
We're going to dig deep
What about a comparison to amd's Cooler? That's
Sort of a stocks cooler, but you also have to buy it separately
Now the easiest way to see how these stack up would be to use the same
heat load of the Same cPU
but unfortunately that isn't possible given that there aren't currently any
Am4 to LGA 1151 Mounting adapters or Vice-Versa
so we devised a
Completely over engineered and clever plan to use an intermediary
reference Cooler that was compatible with both or
Because we're thorough like that. We actually used a total of
three references
and
Looking at the results
Amd is
The winner for non stock stock Cooler performance although only by a slim
5% over royalty and at 12 percent more expensive
It looks like it's pretty much coming down to whether it's worth it to you to pay
seven percent for that RGB lighting
Although there is one other thing that really differentiates them as well the noise level once the intel fan kicks in it
Reaches about 40 decibels which isn't overly loud
But the amd wraith Cooler comes in at 38 decibels, so you think okay?
That's pretty similar uh ah the amd cooler is at a low frequency
So tuning it out is easy kind of like a clothes dryer in the other room the intel cooler on the other hand is
High-pitched and
very distracting kind of like your boss which
Hey
Anyway at this point?
You might assume that we aren't big fans of paying
Aftermarket dollars for oem design and that we think buying the intel thermal solution ts
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