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compared to AMD Intel's box coolers are kind of an embarrassment their main

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Workhorse for many years the

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e97378-003 has about as much sex appeal

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as its name would imply but what's this

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at first you're thinking damn and tell

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how you get all fine like that and then you're like

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but are those even real and that's kind of where I find myself

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today alongside their 12th gen CPUs Intel launched three new stock coolers

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the rh1 rm1 and rs1

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as you can see we only got two of them but they're the

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most important ones and once we got them disrobed we realized there is a lot more

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here than meets the eye Beauty and Brawn

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for nearly 13 years Intel's consumer platforms used the same 75 millimeter

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mounting hole pattern which has been great for consumers I mean who doesn't

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want to carry their old cooler forward to their new system but with 12th gen

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that's finally changed Alder lake is Intel's biggest performance leap in many

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years and to pull it off they needed a new much larger CPU socket which appears

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to be the driving force behind the new expanded 78 millimeter mounting holes

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these obsoleted every previous Intel compatible cooler including Intel Zone

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resulting in the creation of these standing at 47 and 69 millimeters

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respectively nice the rm1 and rh1's new

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design language is a refreshing change from the value optimized Intel coolers

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of the past the larger model features knurled stainless steel captive thumb

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screws for mounting a pleasing two-tone finish addressable RGB lighting and

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enough cooling capacity for the core I9 12900 and 12900f processors that it

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ships alongside as for the rm1 this

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little guy borrows design cues from its bigger brother you got your black

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anodized aluminum cooling fins sleeved 4-pin fan connector and stylish Crown

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profile but there are definitely some cut Corners here the plastic push pins

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are certainly an improvement over previous generations but they're plastic

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and gone is the RGB lighting accent Machining and included backplate it's

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the rm1 though that you'll find included alongside core I3 Core i5 and core i7

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CPUs which means that this is the unit that most people will actually end up

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with and while it appears smaller and

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more basic and therefore probably worse

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what's interesting is that Intel's entire multiplier locked Core Series

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lineup all the way from I3 to I9 is

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rated at the same 65 watt TDP which

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immediately made us Wonder why wouldn't they just use the same

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cooler for all of them to really understand what's going on

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here we need to look at the performance of a few generations of Intel stock

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coolers all of them were adapted to work on our MSI Pro z690a Wi-Fi motherboard

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and we used a core i7 12700 as our standard thermal load Now Intel has

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traditionally offered three mainstream cooling solutions a basic all extruded

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aluminum fin heat sink a second more performant variant of the same this time

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with a copper slug pressed into the center to add thermal mass and

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facilitate faster heat transfer to the fins that's the one we're going to focus

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on today and occasionally they've done these weird tall boy versions for higher

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TDP chips these had remained essentially unchanged for the better part of a

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decade until the introduction of the LGA 1200 socket for 10th and 11th gen chips

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that saw our old standby here dumped for a younger sleeker cousin now with more

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black and less Mass hmm

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so Intel kept the construction method the profile the thin count and even the

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performance the same and yet they dropped 17 grams of weight about 11

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overall it turns out they did so by

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Machining out more Copper from the center Slug and this is really cool

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because it goes to show you just how much copper has gone up in price over

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the last 10 years it's at the point where when you're operating at Intel

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scale Machining out that 17 extra grams

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of copper per heatsink then pressing it into pucks and recycling it manages to

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be more cost effective than just leaving it in there now let's see how our new

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units Stack Up starting with the rm1 we tested with blender BMW there's about a

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five minute test on this chip in three different fan profiles in our noise

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normalized profile the rm1 was disappointingly exactly on par with our

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older style coolers then in the auto profile it managed well extremely

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similar performance again within about half a degree and it full speed the rm1

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managed to run as much as two degrees cooler across multiple tests but wait

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how could that be that you've got no performance difference at one fan speed

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and a significant one at another fan speed

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well one factor could be the solid copper core at the heart of this new

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series that's right in spite of the ever increasing cost of this metal Intel put

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so much into these new coolers that they weigh nearly double the last gen design

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we think that this could be to accommodate the aggressive turbo boost

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behavior of 12th gen core CPUs but

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there's a big asterisk on our results and that's fan performance while doing

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research for this video we found out that Intel actually published the full

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design specs for their LGA 115x cooler

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family the older ones and digging through these we found out that there

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were three manufacturers of the exact same SKU Foxconn Delta and nidec going

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deeper into these documents we found that the fan RPM specification varies by

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8.25 percent and that's on top of the

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plus or minus 10 that the fan can operate at while still meeting Intel

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spec if the new generation is a similar story

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that means that we could easily see a larger performance Gap from just one

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cooler to the next compared to one

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generation of coolers to the Next Generation

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with that in mind we still think it's worth testing the rh1 to see how it

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might compare the differences were

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underwhelming less than one degree

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between the much taller version of the cooler and the little skinny chicken one

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in both are noise normalized and full

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speed tests it did manage to shave 15 seconds off our render and sustain a 50

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megahertz higher clock speed throughout the run compared to the rm1 so the extra

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mass in the cooler is making a difference I just feel like that

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difference could have been bigger and I've got a question and tells you some

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thick chunky fins here because a lot of

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smaller fins would have had more surface area and therefore probably better

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performance so I'm left feeling like Aesthetics took

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a priority over performance in spite of the fact that these are shipping with

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core I9 CPUs and on that note I didn't

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even mention the cute little backlit spinner hubcap on The Fan Hub that's

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definitely purely aesthetic now we didn't get to testing these

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coolers against AMD's wraith offerings for a couple of reasons one is the

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different mounting systems of course but that is the sort of thing that will be

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happening in the near future with LTT Labs and the second reason is that we

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just didn't really have to they're so much better you don't even need me to

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tell you with that said I still need to commend

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Intel for Value engineering a small but

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measurable Improvement to their previous thermal Solutions and more than that I'm

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glad they took the time to make this new generation of coolers just attractive

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enough to not look horrible in the tempered glass side panel world that we

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find ourselves in today they're also quiet enough to go unnoticed by most

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people especially any of those of you who are lucky enough to also have a

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presumably louder GPU so 12th generation

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Intel is making the CPU industry competitive again we're reaping the

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rewards that is after AMD made the CPU industry competitive again all we need

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now is for Intel to finally drop their Alchemist gpus to shake up that side of

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