now this is something i've been asked a lot of times a shocking number of times
does running my CPU cooler
make it go faster and the answer to that is always well
it's complicated you know if you do this business and all these things then yes
it can but in general no but i realized
that i've never actually tested it
so today we're gonna find out
does your CPU being colder make it perform better in any meaningful way
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so our first test here is actually fairly real world this is cinebench r15
and we are just getting our our baseline i mean this machine hasn't been touched
since we filmed the build guide so exactly the way we had it set up
readings you can see it's running at five gigahertz pretty much on the nose
with that benchmark running and then the way that we're actually going to get
temperature readings is not necessarily
while running benchmarks but rather using ida 64 in order to
stress the CPU or not stress the CPU and then there's a couple different ways
that we're going to take temperatures so i'll bring this up right here so you can
see right now okay well that was what CPU load looked like while we were
actually running a benchmark but now it's falling back down again so we're
going to use this stability test and then we're going to use a couple of different programs for measuring CPU
temps and the reason for that is they're both measuring it in different ways real
temp pulls the temperature off the CPU die which actually doesn't go below zero
so right now it is below zero and then we're also going
to use um ASUS ai suite because this one
is pulling CPU temperature off a sensor that's near the CPU again
not perfect for sub-zero readings but it's pretty much all we have to go on so
i'm going to go ahead i'm going to start up our test here because i've already
collected my minus 11 and not applicable temperatures off of uh
off of my software for temps and we're gonna go ahead and see what they rise to
okay so while we're running fire strike here i'll go ahead and discuss our
temperature results which are about what we expected i mean frankly we've tested
this system before and while we are presenting this as like a range of
values as opposed to a real value as far as load temperatures are concerned
all we really need to know is much lower than the other one because
we're not trying to determine how much faster does your CPU run if you cool it
a lot we're just trying to determine if it helps at all at all so
yeah let's see how this goes
is she like an ice lady all right so apparently our fire strike
score is better than 97 of all other results we actually only have a single
gtx 980 hall of fame in this system but
anyway that's pretty much it for the results that we need in this
configuration so i'm just going to save this
now we need to reboot the system and run it
at stock speed extreme stock speed
sub-zero benchmarking lightest tech tips
so i loaded optimize defaults there are actually a couple of things i don't want
to change so i do want our memory at 1866.
okay so that's not there anymore and we should probably also stay in raid mode
since that's how we're booting now just for the sake of convenience
okay so we've got our results at stock speed now you can see that we fell by
about 400 points in 3dmark fire strike
and now all that's left is to shut this
baby down we're going to use restart because i
don't want to apply updates in the middle of benchmarking between
runs here and then we're going to pull off the
phase change and go ahead and unplug the
phase change and put this stock cooler on there mmm so sexy
okay hold on i gotta power it down right now
i mean the results were about what we expected you're going to see a drop in
score um and it doesn't really tell us
anything about our objective today because what we need to know is how that
last number compares to the one we're about to get with the
stock cooler that's cool we weren't really getting any uh
any condensation around there or anything this was cool or it wasn't cool
wow it was cool but not cool in the wrong places how's that oh balls this is
like gonna take a bit to remove
oh and it's really cold so it's hard to work with
dang it way to go ed
you can turn the pc on and let it warm
up whoa you can see the condensation just
evaporate instantly well you missed it but you would have
been able to see that it was cool
i'm sorry you couldn't experience it wow it's still
like really cold to the touch is that still cold oh no it's warming up
cool well less cool but
cool for different reasons ah terrible process
the dark side of face change cooling kind of oh it's her foot
yeah i just kind of figured you were propositioning me and i was okay with
that it made me comfortable okay the pinky
toe is the most sensitive toe i don't actually know that to be a fact but it
could be in which case that probably came across
even weirder than i meant it to okay
so now this kneaded eraser needs to come
out which does not look like it's actually going
to be that easy so i put nuts around the
bottoms of those
bolts which is why all the needed eraser needs to come
off before i can mount any other cooler
great mate we're not going to worry about our
maintenance board back to jj you probably know not to take an rma from me
this way i'm trying from the other side just yeah
keep twisting yeah the problem is that i also have to hold the nut in place and i'm having
trouble with that you know what i'll get a screwdriver
it took off the serial number sticker so much for my rma
oh no
this is going faster so that's good oh yeah there's a big chunk
i feel like i'm picking my nose right now i'm having a lot of success you know
that felt like a pretty unsatisfying little pick where you know you left a big chunk behind that should have been
easy to get but you just it just didn't come with the rest
because the you know the tensile strength of the booger
wasn't equal to the attachment force to the wall of the inside of the nose did
you say booger yeah
hey we're doing pretty well here actually
not too shabby now all we got to do is not get any kneaded eraser into the CPU
socket and we'll be fine this computer will power back on
you know what i'm not going to appease my idle curiosity and pull this CPU out
because i think there's a good chance we'll accidentally get some gunk
in the uh in the socket so instead
uh we're just gonna we're gonna go for it so we'll be back when we're booted up
on the stock cooler
the line between bravery and stupid
is one often traveled atlantis media group
what do you think that there's not a line separating the two but instead it's
more of a venn diagram let me just sit in there
we just chill that's where our building is
all right that's a good sign oh those CPU temps are a little high i
guess we gotta reapply the thermal group
those temps look really high still what is going on here
do you think it's because i don't have the socket hold down on
like what happens when i load it oh you don't
no i didn't put it on i just put the cooler on top of it
it should be fine the cooler puts yeah it's definitely not working right well
you know what we're going for worst case scenario here
as long as it's stable this will tell us the difference between
sub-zero and like 80 degrees i guess so yeah let's let's
push forward here we go jj has asked me on occasion
why do you not like ai sweet i don't know because it behaves like this i mean
the system is under load it wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't under load but
these other programs work when the system's under load
i can move them oh crap i did that thing okay stock
speed phase cinebench score
700. here we go
here we go 8 17.
what that doesn't make any sense
the phase score seems to be bugged which i should have noticed back
when we ran it because you can see we got 700 versus their stock
4770k that does 822. so it's performing
normally now and was actually okay well we'll have to come back to this
i don't know what we're gonna do i all i can do right now is save these results
so stock speed stock
cooling cinebench
and then i'll run 3d mark since it seems to be running normally like this is in
line with its 4770k score
so i'll run 3dmark and then
maybe we will we'll ghetto mount
the phase cooler back on there temporarily and uh let me see if we can
get one benchmark out of it before it condenses and drips all over the
motherboard so i'm just basically going to put this around here
so the only sort of
this is do not do this at home
here we go well there's a difference between being
a professional and being professional
oh balls
oh i did not want that to happen no
that's a bad thing okay uh why
why can't anything go right right now
well let's use the technique we should have a counter in the corner
of this video for the things not to do that's what
that is for yeah
yeah that does do that normally oh this is bad this is really
bad
those are like sitting next to the pins if not on them
if i just kind of jerk it that seems to work better
watch this video i jerk it
i never recommend mounting a CPU vertically
but if you ever wanted to know how to do it this is it
put your finger through the socket to hold it into place
while you lower the retention ARM there
never do that the 3d mark one is actually very close
to what we got with the air cooler but we'll rerun both just in case
we need a stress ball right now this thing just shuts down mid benchmark
you'll know it died from the condensation
i don't know probably less than ten percent he made up completely off the
top of his head and run run my pretties
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so back to our results 8 23
there we go that is more like it what
the heck happened last time
i don't know whether i'm happy or mad i'm happy it worked i'm mad it didn't
work the first time than last time
12 545 3d marks
and last time what we got with phase was 12 401 so i'm really glad we re-ran that
now let's have a look at what we got with stock speed stock cooling
hmm
let's put the stock cooler back on and see if we can take another crack at that
oh i didn't save it no oh well whatever you saw it
all right so it's final conclusion time
and the answer is no your CPU running cooler does not affect
your performance our hypothesis our prediction whatever
you want to call it was correct
um so you actually have to turn the speed up
in order to have it run faster which makes perfect sense because can you
imagine with the kind of precision and precisional precision engineering that
goes into a product like this if just cooling it down made like some parts of
it like go faster be completely out of whack it makes no sense so there you go
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