WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.820 compared to AMD Intel's box coolers are kind of an embarrassment their main 00:00:04.500 --> 00:00:10.860 Workhorse for many years the 00:00:07.820 --> 00:00:12.599 e97378-003 has about as much sex appeal 00:00:10.860 --> 00:00:18.119 as its name would imply but what's this 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:20.640 at first you're thinking damn and tell 00:00:18.119 --> 00:00:23.880 how you get all fine like that and then you're like 00:00:21.539 --> 00:00:28.019 but are those even real and that's kind of where I find myself 00:00:25.380 --> 00:00:34.380 today alongside their 12th gen CPUs Intel launched three new stock coolers 00:00:30.720 --> 00:00:36.000 the rh1 rm1 and rs1 00:00:34.380 --> 00:00:40.140 as you can see we only got two of them but they're the 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:46.379 most important ones and once we got them disrobed we realized there is a lot more 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:47.399 here than meets the eye Beauty and Brawn 00:00:46.379 --> 00:00:53.160 perhaps Perhaps Perhaps I'll tell you about our 00:00:49.739 --> 00:00:55.140 sponsor signal RGB with signal RGB you 00:00:53.160 --> 00:01:00.300 can control and sync your favorite RGB devices all from one app best of all 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:02.899 it's free download signalrgb at the link down below 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:10.740 foreign 00:01:10.740 --> 00:01:17.939 for nearly 13 years Intel's consumer platforms used the same 75 millimeter 00:01:16.380 --> 00:01:21.659 mounting hole pattern which has been great for consumers I mean who doesn't 00:01:20.100 --> 00:01:26.220 want to carry their old cooler forward to their new system but with 12th gen 00:01:23.820 --> 00:01:30.360 that's finally changed Alder lake is Intel's biggest performance leap in many 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:35.280 years and to pull it off they needed a new much larger CPU socket which appears 00:01:33.299 --> 00:01:40.619 to be the driving force behind the new expanded 78 millimeter mounting holes 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:45.060 these obsoleted every previous Intel compatible cooler including Intel Zone 00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:51.420 resulting in the creation of these standing at 47 and 69 millimeters 00:01:47.759 --> 00:01:52.979 respectively nice the rm1 and rh1's new 00:01:51.420 --> 00:01:57.119 design language is a refreshing change from the value optimized Intel coolers 00:01:54.899 --> 00:02:01.140 of the past the larger model features knurled stainless steel captive thumb 00:01:58.740 --> 00:02:05.040 screws for mounting a pleasing two-tone finish addressable RGB lighting and 00:02:03.180 --> 00:02:11.520 enough cooling capacity for the core I9 12900 and 12900f processors that it 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:13.560 ships alongside as for the rm1 this 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:17.340 little guy borrows design cues from its bigger brother you got your black 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:22.319 anodized aluminum cooling fins sleeved 4-pin fan connector and stylish Crown 00:02:19.620 --> 00:02:26.220 profile but there are definitely some cut Corners here the plastic push pins 00:02:24.720 --> 00:02:31.739 are certainly an improvement over previous generations but they're plastic 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:36.120 and gone is the RGB lighting accent Machining and included backplate it's 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:41.519 the rm1 though that you'll find included alongside core I3 Core i5 and core i7 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:46.920 CPUs which means that this is the unit that most people will actually end up 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:50.700 with and while it appears smaller and 00:02:46.920 --> 00:02:53.099 more basic and therefore probably worse 00:02:50.700 --> 00:02:58.920 what's interesting is that Intel's entire multiplier locked Core Series 00:02:55.200 --> 00:03:02.220 lineup all the way from I3 to I9 is 00:02:58.920 --> 00:03:04.739 rated at the same 65 watt TDP which 00:03:02.220 --> 00:03:07.739 immediately made us Wonder why wouldn't they just use the same 00:03:06.060 --> 00:03:10.680 cooler for all of them to really understand what's going on 00:03:09.180 --> 00:03:15.900 here we need to look at the performance of a few generations of Intel stock 00:03:13.260 --> 00:03:21.239 coolers all of them were adapted to work on our MSI Pro z690a Wi-Fi motherboard 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:25.080 and we used a core i7 12700 as our standard thermal load Now Intel has 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:30.780 traditionally offered three mainstream cooling solutions a basic all extruded 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:34.560 aluminum fin heat sink a second more performant variant of the same this time 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:37.860 with a copper slug pressed into the center to add thermal mass and 00:03:36.239 --> 00:03:42.060 facilitate faster heat transfer to the fins that's the one we're going to focus 00:03:39.720 --> 00:03:46.799 on today and occasionally they've done these weird tall boy versions for higher 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:50.640 TDP chips these had remained essentially unchanged for the better part of a 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:57.060 decade until the introduction of the LGA 1200 socket for 10th and 11th gen chips 00:03:54.180 --> 00:04:02.040 that saw our old standby here dumped for a younger sleeker cousin now with more 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:05.159 black and less Mass hmm 00:04:03.180 --> 00:04:10.439 so Intel kept the construction method the profile the thin count and even the 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:16.380 performance the same and yet they dropped 17 grams of weight about 11 00:04:13.379 --> 00:04:18.479 overall it turns out they did so by 00:04:16.380 --> 00:04:22.680 Machining out more Copper from the center Slug and this is really cool 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:27.060 because it goes to show you just how much copper has gone up in price over 00:04:24.840 --> 00:04:32.160 the last 10 years it's at the point where when you're operating at Intel 00:04:28.500 --> 00:04:34.740 scale Machining out that 17 extra grams 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:39.060 of copper per heatsink then pressing it into pucks and recycling it manages to 00:04:37.080 --> 00:04:43.800 be more cost effective than just leaving it in there now let's see how our new 00:04:41.100 --> 00:04:48.060 units Stack Up starting with the rm1 we tested with blender BMW there's about a 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:52.860 five minute test on this chip in three different fan profiles in our noise 00:04:50.460 --> 00:04:57.720 normalized profile the rm1 was disappointingly exactly on par with our 00:04:55.380 --> 00:05:02.040 older style coolers then in the auto profile it managed well extremely 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:06.419 similar performance again within about half a degree and it full speed the rm1 00:05:04.620 --> 00:05:12.479 managed to run as much as two degrees cooler across multiple tests but wait 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:17.280 how could that be that you've got no performance difference at one fan speed 00:05:14.780 --> 00:05:20.580 and a significant one at another fan speed 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:25.259 well one factor could be the solid copper core at the heart of this new 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:30.300 series that's right in spite of the ever increasing cost of this metal Intel put 00:05:27.780 --> 00:05:35.340 so much into these new coolers that they weigh nearly double the last gen design 00:05:33.660 --> 00:05:40.800 we think that this could be to accommodate the aggressive turbo boost 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:43.259 behavior of 12th gen core CPUs but 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:47.940 there's a big asterisk on our results and that's fan performance while doing 00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:53.220 research for this video we found out that Intel actually published the full 00:05:50.100 --> 00:05:55.440 design specs for their LGA 115x cooler 00:05:53.220 --> 00:05:59.280 family the older ones and digging through these we found out that there 00:05:56.940 --> 00:06:04.860 were three manufacturers of the exact same SKU Foxconn Delta and nidec going 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:10.860 deeper into these documents we found that the fan RPM specification varies by 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:13.080 8.25 percent and that's on top of the 00:06:10.860 --> 00:06:16.620 plus or minus 10 that the fan can operate at while still meeting Intel 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:21.300 spec if the new generation is a similar story 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:26.880 that means that we could easily see a larger performance Gap from just one 00:06:23.880 --> 00:06:28.979 cooler to the next compared to one 00:06:26.880 --> 00:06:32.280 generation of coolers to the Next Generation 00:06:30.539 --> 00:06:35.400 with that in mind we still think it's worth testing the rh1 to see how it 00:06:34.259 --> 00:06:40.560 might compare the differences were 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:42.780 underwhelming less than one degree 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:48.240 between the much taller version of the cooler and the little skinny chicken one 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:51.180 in both are noise normalized and full 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:55.020 speed tests it did manage to shave 15 seconds off our render and sustain a 50 00:06:53.460 --> 00:06:59.580 megahertz higher clock speed throughout the run compared to the rm1 so the extra 00:06:58.020 --> 00:07:03.720 mass in the cooler is making a difference I just feel like that 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:09.120 difference could have been bigger and I've got a question and tells you some 00:07:05.580 --> 00:07:11.160 thick chunky fins here because a lot of 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:14.280 smaller fins would have had more surface area and therefore probably better 00:07:13.080 --> 00:07:18.840 performance so I'm left feeling like Aesthetics took 00:07:16.860 --> 00:07:24.599 a priority over performance in spite of the fact that these are shipping with 00:07:20.220 --> 00:07:26.639 core I9 CPUs and on that note I didn't 00:07:24.599 --> 00:07:32.220 even mention the cute little backlit spinner hubcap on The Fan Hub that's 00:07:30.180 --> 00:07:35.699 definitely purely aesthetic now we didn't get to testing these 00:07:33.960 --> 00:07:40.020 coolers against AMD's wraith offerings for a couple of reasons one is the 00:07:37.979 --> 00:07:42.840 different mounting systems of course but that is the sort of thing that will be 00:07:41.460 --> 00:07:49.080 happening in the near future with LTT Labs and the second reason is that we 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:52.500 just didn't really have to they're so much better you don't even need me to 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:58.380 tell you with that said I still need to commend 00:07:55.199 --> 00:08:00.180 Intel for Value engineering a small but 00:07:58.380 --> 00:08:04.319 measurable Improvement to their previous thermal Solutions and more than that I'm 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:08.819 glad they took the time to make this new generation of coolers just attractive 00:08:06.780 --> 00:08:12.360 enough to not look horrible in the tempered glass side panel world that we 00:08:10.440 --> 00:08:16.560 find ourselves in today they're also quiet enough to go unnoticed by most 00:08:14.220 --> 00:08:22.139 people especially any of those of you who are lucky enough to also have a 00:08:19.139 --> 00:08:23.699 presumably louder GPU so 12th generation 00:08:22.139 --> 00:08:27.660 Intel is making the CPU industry competitive again we're reaping the 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:31.500 rewards that is after AMD made the CPU industry competitive again all we need 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:35.760 now is for Intel to finally drop their Alchemist gpus to shake up that side of 00:08:34.020 --> 00:08:41.039 things so get subscribed so you don't miss wait oh don't miss our sponsor 00:08:37.940 --> 00:08:43.260 Squarespace we use Squarespace no joke 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:48.660 we use it both for linusmediagroup.com and for ltxexpo.com rip LTX someday 00:08:46.860 --> 00:08:52.080 it'll return both of those sites were built quickly and easily using 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:55.800 Squarespace and just about anyone on staff can 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