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every non-k or x processor from Intel

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comes packed with this little guy right here and i mean little

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whether it's been by removing thin area

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or eliminating performance enhancing copper slugs

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Intel has been costing down their box cooler for years

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years i mean to be clear it is adequate

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for default operation but it would

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easily be overwhelmed by an overclocked processor

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but what if Intel made a stock heatsink specifically

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for k series and x series overclockable chips

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well it turns out they do

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and it looks pretty much like what you'd expect if Intel's cooling engineers the

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same ones what brought you this we're terminally unimaginative

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and we're told well make

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something like that but that performs a bit better

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so it looks about like the stock cooler

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on roids but did the treatment give it better

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performance or just mood swings fatigue and a deflated sex

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drive let's find out

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the be quiet! dark bass pro 900's modular design supports a variety of different

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layouts and configurations click on the link in the video description to learn

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more okay silly intro aside taking the Intel

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thermal solution ts15a

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out of the box it looks pretty much like

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somebody took three or so regular Intel

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stock heatsinks and glued them together

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the push mounting pins remain for

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that easy installation and the fan clips

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on to the top exactly the same way it normally would

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looking more closely at it though reveals some differences

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so the regular heatsink uses an aluminum

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extrusion process to create the required profile

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that's great for keeping costs down but

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not so great for having thin higher performance fins so for the ts15a which

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we'll be calling roydee from now on

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each fin here is actually its own bent

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piece of metal that meets at the center

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so you can kind of see it here around a copper slug

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this increases performance but also

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increases manufacturing costs but how much additional performance

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does it actually get you and can you slap a decent overclock on

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your processor using it and then perhaps more importantly

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at this price does it make any sense to actually go

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and buy this product compared to

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larger and probably better coolers like the cooler

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master hyper 212 evo that are available

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for as little as only two dollars more

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to test this we first ran a couple of

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other heatsinks on an Intel core i7

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7700k at both the stock speed of 4.5

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gigahertz turbo and a modest 4.8

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gigahertz over clock that was mostly there to increase its heat output the

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stock fan curve was used for these tests

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and we also used the thermal compound that comes pre-applied to these things

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out of the box

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and

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yeah it couldn't quite do it

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at the stock speed the reuted cooler was

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able to pull off a warm 81 degrees celsius but with our

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fairly reasonable overclock it throttled hard

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reaching 100 degrees celsius in about 30

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seconds the only thing in our test table here

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that performed worse than the

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roidy cooler was actually the regular

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Intel stock cooler which immediately throttled so badly that we just canceled

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the test out of pity for both our board and our chip

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you know what it's not all terrible news though i mean it was able to maintain

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4.7 gigahertz in the 0.1 volt offset

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test which wasn't really fair because that makes

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this chip more like a space heater than a roomy heater get it cause like outer

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space anyway and with a bit of tweaking we

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were actually able to get this processor up to a stable 4.9 gigahertz without it

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thermal throttling that is to say upstairs where the

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temperatures are about 5 degrees cooler here it is

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definitely thermal throttling but it's still managing about 4.8 gigahertz

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sustained at uh 100 degrees

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okay then so it performs a bit worse

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than a hyper 212 evo um

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dumb product video over right

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wrong if i'm investing

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33 of my hard-earned dollars plus shipping

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we're gonna dig deep what about a comparison to AMD's cooler

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that's sort of a stock cooler but you

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also have to buy it separately wow

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now the easiest way to see how these

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stack up would be to use the same heat

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load or the same CPU but unfortunately that isn't possible

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given that there aren't currently any am4 to lga 1151 mounting adapters or

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vice versa so we devised

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a completely over engineered and clever

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plan to use an intermediary reference cooler

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that was compatible with both or

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because we're thorough like that we actually used a total of three

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references

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and looking at the results

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AMD is the winner for non-stock stock cooler

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performance although only by a slim five

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percent over roidy and at twelve percent more expensive it

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looks like it's pretty much coming down to whether it's worth it to you to pay

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seven percent for that RGB lighting

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although there is one other thing that really differentiates them as well

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the noise level once the Intel fan kicks in it reaches

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about 40 decibels which isn't overly

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loud but the AMD wraith cooler comes in at 38 decibels

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so you'd think okay that's pretty similar uh-uh the AMD cooler is at a low

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frequency so tuning it out is easy kind of like a clothes dryer in the other

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room the Intel cooler on the other hand is high pitched and very distracting

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kind of like your boss which hey

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anyway at this point you might assume that we

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aren't big fans of paying after market dollars for oem design and that we think

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buying the Intel thermal solution ts15a

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would be super dumb and that would be correct great work

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