how bad could a $5 heat sink that we
bought on eBay possibly be how do you
even make a computer cooler for
$5 to our door
$5 well we're going to find out on the
cheapest heat sink on the market and yes my friends we are starting another
series the cheapest on the market and it's going to be flipping awesome
hp's new Omen X lineup comes equipped with Intel's 7eventh generation core i7
processor check it out at the link in the video
description the brand is XY CP and this
is the whatever that is CPU Cooler 65 W
maybe that says 3 warranty and it also has support for core i7 and 12 something
okay let's get it open
wow so that my
friends holy crap it's like feather
light that is $5 worth of heat sink I mean look at
this when they were designing the the flower heat sink fin Arrangement like
this just looks like a you know someone accidentally you know bumped it on the
uh assembly line see this hook kind of came off there see no problem no problem
you just put that baby back together no big deal but but look at this they uh
there were like wasn't room for the for
the frame for the fan so they're just like no problem well just bend it no big
deal no problem that's where the that's where the wire comes out okay so we're
looking at an 80 mm fan or somewhere in
between like 75 mm fan I think that's 80 mil oh man this stuff this stuff looks
quality let me see there m that's a good stuff that's a
good stuff right there W it's really runny actually that doesn't look
especially quality look at this look at this it's just like it's like a little
thermal volcano warning remove before
installation warning have your head checked before
installation all right so you can see what they've done here the construction
method is pretty actually very very basic so they've got these uh these
pieces right here that are basically running all the way through and
compressing so they've got all these fins coming in and you can actually
follow the lines cuz it's quite cheaply made this is a very old old construction
method they've got these four pieces of aluminum on either side that extend the
base and that are basically used to crush all the fins together then they
machine the bottom as flat as they can in a couple of minutes there and ship it
off now let's put this thing up against
its main competitor so the stock Intel heat sink with the fan and the mounting
hardware is 180 g this bad
boy comes in at
157 can it possibly hold up so first
things first we've got to clean off our CPU with alcohol for the most Fair
possible comparison we're using a 7700k then I've got a brand new Intel
stock cooler going to go ahead and throw that bad boy on there so I'm using the
included thermal compound we're not introducing extra variables in our test
so we're going to hit this baby with an i to 64 stress test here we
go utilization 100%
CPU temps well we'll give them a
minute I'm just taking in the uh the
sounds of the of the heat
sink okay so you can probably hear the way that the fan is
you hear that ramping up and ramping down so our temperatures and our turbo
speed actually reasonable so we're hanging in here at
4.45 GHz on our 7700k all the way up to 4.5 so this
thing's turboing up to the max at 100%
load and we're sitting at about 85° on the CPU package
ideal perhaps not but certainly not
going to damage it but what we also hear is that that fan is working really hard
to keep it there so let's lock that sound in our
minds and try out our $5 heat
sink all right so with it clean now we can put on
our uh thermal lava here oh look at that
that oh oh shoot oh
crap okay well oh quality oh beautiful okay okay
now I'm ready with my mounting hardware you basically put these little clear
plastic inserts into the hole that corresponds to the socket you want so
it's 775 or 1150 whatever then we just I
guess put this on here oh do not tell me this is not going
to align oh man oh you hear that
crunching um oh shoot I legitimately
don't know if it's going to fit that way oh how am I going to get this out
now okay maybe if I
can press it ow oh
crap shoot it's hooked on there real good
now well maybe I can get this side I don't know how I'm going to remove this
after
shoot ow okay I got to get the video card off
here okay well there are some Creature Comforts that definitely come with using
a uh a more modern design but if we put
it on this way I think we might actually be okay
here shoot it's going to interfere with the RAM before I can press it all the
way down K take the RAM out here we go
oh going to make it over that yes
okay we have a mount but can I get the
RAM back in now that is the
question oh I'm sorry gkill I'm sorry to
subject your memory to this ah there we go look at that it's like
it's designed for it it sits like right
there yeah yeah boy all right let's turn this
thing on all right right so it's got this like you know
orange spinning style you know what it
actually looks pretty cool I I
legitimately think it looks cooler than the stock heat sink just because of that
that Orange fan uh systems booted so we
clearly haven't outright broken
anything oh boy I don't think this is a
good sign I already heard it ramp up for a
second there but let's fire this up oh okay that's
all fine Miss okay here we
go oh oh
dang
101° on the CPU package H it's painful
look at the throttling look at the throttling
19% thermal throttling oh the
humanity oh we've already fallen from
4.5 to 4.24 GHz it just can't keep
up ah so if the question was could a $5
heat sink be worse than a free heat
sink the the answer is in fact yes my
friends but does its performance hold up to what
I would expect for a $5 product given
that if you try and buy one of these on eBay it'll actually cost you about
$15 then yes yes it holds up to what I
would expect I am shocked that we got anything for
$5 even something as ineffective as this
remember it's rated for 65 Watts not the 95 Watts we threw at it we were just
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