if you're looking into a processor there's loads of references you can check out for performance breakdowns and
stuff like that in order to determine which one is better but no one ever
really compares the difference in their stock coolers so if you have an option
between coolers which should you choose let's find out also stay subscribed for
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learn more now so we started by sourcing the stock coolers I acquired three
offerings from AMD a standard cooler with a copper slug in the middle a
standard cooler without a copper slug in the middle and a heat pipe based cooler
with a larger copper base from Intel I actually only have one cooler it's their
little one that they've been shipping for quite some time which also Sports a
copper slug in the middle for platforms I'll be using a stock AMD A10 800k and a
4790k I'll be testing each CPU Cooler on both CPUs so the mounting is going to
get get a little bit ghetto here and they're not super designed to go on each
platform so there might even be some modifications going on to fit the AMD
CPUs onto the Intel platform all I really had to do was create two zap
strap loops and fed them through the motherboard through the existing holes
and while this wasn't exactly elegant I actually didn't really interfere with
the cooler all that much and it was relatively easy to do if you were to do
do this on your own I would highly recommend a proper base and using the
mounting hardware from maybe a different cooler and modifying it to your needs
the Intel cooler was an different Beast entirely due to the clip-like feet these
feet stopped the cooler from being able to make a connection with the CPU as
they stood off from the motherboard therefore they were removed in the name
of science the Intel heat sinks fan Clips on using the longer parts of its
leg which is an issue but thankfully the
base of the actual metal where the copper slug is is actually taller than
the rest of the unit so the first thing I removed was the fan mounting hardware
and the fan itself from the heat sink two of the mounting legs had additional
clips for attaching to the heat sink and two didn't I completely cut off the ones
that didn't have any additional clip and the other ones I removed the mounting
legs really quickly and then shaved them down as short as they could go while
still having the clip attached and still being strong enough to hold on from
there it was essentially the same as the AMD coolers in terms of mounting to the
motherboard so all the coolers are trapped in literally and we're ready to
go The Benchmark we'll use is Ida 64 stability test which will which we have
set up to test the CPU FPU cache and
system memory this test will be ran for at least 10 minutes or longer depending
on if the system seems to have hit a constant temperature or not and each
cooler and CPU will be wiped clean with 99% isopropyl alcohol and toilet paper
before every test I'm using IC Diamond thermal compound to remove variables as
I would only be able to use the stock thermal paste on these coolers once once
which makes it generally useless the results were rather expected bigger
cooler does better and when size is similar the ones with copper slugs
outperform those without and the bigger cooler with the most copper in it and
the one that also had happened to have heat pipes did the best overall one
thing to note is that the goal of this video is to compare the available stock
cooling solutions not which CPU has better thermal output that's a different
story for another time in conclusion the coolers are kind of made for what
platform they're going on but if you have an option between an AMD and Intel CPU Cooler regardless of your CPU you
should probably grab the AMD one either solution will definitely get the job
done if you're just running at stock but if you have the option you might as well
take it this does draw upon another question however which I would love to
dive into if you guys are interested is aftermarket cooling worth it for price
per performance in early 2015 and if so
how much should you really invest let me know if this is something you're interested over on the Forum while
you're there click the support us box link thing in the top right hand corner
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with the weird YouTube changes that are going on lately you you can become a
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subscribe like dislike do all those things based on which cooler you like
more I'm not going to tell you which option to choose depending on that but
you'll figure it out anyways guys thanks for watching and I'll see you next time
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