every non-k or x processor from Intel
comes packed with this little guy right here and i mean little
whether it's been by removing thin area
or eliminating performance enhancing copper slugs
Intel has been costing down their box cooler for years
years i mean to be clear it is adequate
for default operation but it would
easily be overwhelmed by an overclocked processor
but what if Intel made a stock heatsink specifically
for k series and x series overclockable chips
well it turns out they do
and it looks pretty much like what you'd expect if Intel's cooling engineers the
same ones what brought you this we're terminally unimaginative
and we're told well make
something like that but that performs a bit better
so it looks about like the stock cooler
on roids but did the treatment give it better
performance or just mood swings fatigue and a deflated sex
drive let's find out
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more okay silly intro aside taking the Intel
thermal solution ts15a
out of the box it looks pretty much like
somebody took three or so regular Intel
stock heatsinks and glued them together
the push mounting pins remain for
that easy installation and the fan clips
on to the top exactly the same way it normally would
looking more closely at it though reveals some differences
so the regular heatsink uses an aluminum
extrusion process to create the required profile
that's great for keeping costs down but
not so great for having thin higher performance fins so for the ts15a which
we'll be calling roydee from now on
each fin here is actually its own bent
piece of metal that meets at the center
so you can kind of see it here around a copper slug
this increases performance but also
increases manufacturing costs but how much additional performance
does it actually get you and can you slap a decent overclock on
your processor using it and then perhaps more importantly
at this price does it make any sense to actually go
and buy this product compared to
larger and probably better coolers like the cooler
master hyper 212 evo that are available
for as little as only two dollars more
to test this we first ran a couple of
other heatsinks on an Intel core i7
7700k at both the stock speed of 4.5
gigahertz turbo and a modest 4.8
gigahertz over clock that was mostly there to increase its heat output the
stock fan curve was used for these tests
and we also used the thermal compound that comes pre-applied to these things
out of the box
and
yeah it couldn't quite do it
at the stock speed the reuted cooler was
able to pull off a warm 81 degrees celsius but with our
fairly reasonable overclock it throttled hard
reaching 100 degrees celsius in about 30
seconds the only thing in our test table here
that performed worse than the
roidy cooler was actually the regular
Intel stock cooler which immediately throttled so badly that we just canceled
the test out of pity for both our board and our chip
you know what it's not all terrible news though i mean it was able to maintain
4.7 gigahertz in the 0.1 volt offset
test which wasn't really fair because that makes
this chip more like a space heater than a roomy heater get it cause like outer
space anyway and with a bit of tweaking we
were actually able to get this processor up to a stable 4.9 gigahertz without it
thermal throttling that is to say upstairs where the
temperatures are about 5 degrees cooler here it is
definitely thermal throttling but it's still managing about 4.8 gigahertz
sustained at uh 100 degrees
okay then so it performs a bit worse
than a hyper 212 evo um
dumb product video over right
wrong if i'm investing
33 of my hard-earned dollars plus shipping
we're gonna dig deep what about a comparison to AMD's cooler
that's sort of a stock cooler but you
also have to buy it separately wow
now the easiest way to see how these
stack up would be to use the same heat
load or the same CPU but unfortunately that isn't possible
given that there aren't currently any am4 to lga 1151 mounting adapters or
vice versa so we devised
a completely over engineered and clever
plan to use an intermediary reference cooler
that was compatible with both or
because we're thorough like that we actually used a total of three
references
and looking at the results
AMD is the winner for non-stock stock cooler
performance although only by a slim five
percent over roidy and at twelve percent more expensive it
looks like it's pretty much coming down to whether it's worth it to you to pay
seven percent for that RGB lighting
although there is one other thing that really differentiates them as well
the noise level once the Intel fan kicks in it reaches
about 40 decibels which isn't overly
loud but the AMD wraith cooler comes in at 38 decibels
so you'd think okay that's pretty similar uh-uh the AMD cooler is at a low
frequency so tuning it out is easy kind of like a clothes dryer in the other
room the Intel cooler on the other hand is high pitched and very distracting
kind of like your boss which hey
anyway at this point you might assume that we
aren't big fans of paying after market dollars for oem design and that we think
buying the Intel thermal solution ts15a
would be super dumb and that would be correct great work
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