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in our review of the core i9 10 900k we were impressed by the performance of

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Intel's 10 core beast i mean this thing turbos just shy of 5 gigahertz across

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all cores and if you set your motherboard to allow it to ignore the

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time limits on its turboing it'll actually do that basically indefinitely

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crazy right well crazy hot the one thing we didn't tell

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you guys because we accidentally left that in the slide out of the slide

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it the one thing we didn't tell you guys because we accidentally left that out of

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the slide is what kind of cooling it takes to get that sort of performance so

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to rectify that error and take things a little bit deeper we are going to try it

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out with everything from Intel's pin or old stock cooler to a more sensible air

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cooler to a high-end air cooler to a top-tier air cooler and see just what

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kind of performance we can get out of this chip depending

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Anthony do we want to replicate our initial test from the review with a

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Corsair 280 millimeter aio this is standard for our CPU reviews or do we

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want to go straight to the pain train

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let's do the pain drink let's do the pain training all right we'll shut it down we're shutting we're shutting the

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thing down okay hey well we're turboing to 4.9 4.95 of

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course we're not doing anything yet first order of business is to establish

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a baseline we've got all of Intel's thermal and power limits in place we're

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going to go ahead and run a blender classroom benchmark and we're going to

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monitor our CPU clock speeds to see where we end up now i suspect it won't

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be an issue for this cooler but with the bigger ones and particularly the water

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cooler we're gonna do two runs of classroom one just to

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heat up the heat sink and then a second one to actually take our values from

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we're at that uh got that 98 degrees you know good band

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let's check them out very uh popular with the kids today i'm

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always in sync with the youth that's why uh you know on friday nights i hang out

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in the back street you know with the boys

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no no you don't want to hang out with the new kids on the block or chris hanson might show up and

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give you trouble unsurprisingly we experienced

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significant thermal throttling with 100 degree temperatures and our lowest core

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managing a sustained 3.6 gigahertz i'm

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not expecting much here but let's see

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if unlocking the power limit changes anything about that situation here we go

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ladies and gentlemen we are removing all limits and going

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auto s vid behavior

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i really wasn't expecting this we're running at the same 100 degrees

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you know 97 to 99 degrees

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but curiously our clock speeds are actually higher

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how about that do you have an explanation for that that's bizarre our

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lowest core sustained clock speed is now 3.9 gigahertz in spite of the fact that

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we didn't change out our cooling solution now that's still not impressive

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with power limits fully removed we would expect this ship to maintain 4.9

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gigahertz not 3.9 gigahertz over an

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extended period of time so now then it's time for us to swap out for something

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a little bit better i don't know how it is the cooler

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i don't know how it is that cooler master has been making heat sinks this

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long and yet they have such obtuse mounting mechanisms still

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i've been saying it for years and i'll say it again everyone else

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just copy Noctua thanks for coming to my ted talk you

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know well i can't say much positive about the finishing on the fins or about

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the mounting mechanism you can't fault the hyper 212 family when it comes to

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price to performance it did spike up to

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around 100 degrees during the turbo window under stock operation but it

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managed an average of just under 69 degrees during the rest of it netting it

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a 400 megahertz improvement over the stock cooler

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now we're running our second round with the limits removed and yes we are seeing

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anywhere from 93 to 99 degrees

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but our sustained turbo speeds are 4.7

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gigahertz that's just 200 megahertz shy of what we're expecting with water

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cooling of course most people don't spend 500 bucks on a CPU to leave any of

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its performance on the table so we're gonna splurge we're gonna spend

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another twenty dollars and we're gonna move up to a Noctua nhu 12

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s mostly the differences in performance

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that i'm expecting here are going to be down to Noctua's superior fan design

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also they have a much better mounting mechanism strongly recommended and there

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it is how much cooling do you need to get the

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most out of your 10900k assuming that you are not manually overclocking the

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answer is somewhere between a hyper 212

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assuming you're using a high quality thermal paste rather than one of our

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graphite thermal pads and an nhu 12s

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with that said even with the 5 to 10 degrees of improvement that we would

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expect here going to a thermal paste i would say that our load temperatures in

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our fully unfettered mode are higher than i would be comfortable with so

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i would still consider an upgrade if you

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plan to do things like render out scenes like this in blender

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on the regular so let's see how much improvement we get here every time i go

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a while without mounting one of these i forget how utterly

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chunk-tastic the nht15 is like look at

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this the performance may actually be better than water cooling but it sure

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does clutter up your CPU socket like even just getting at your memory is a

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chore oh that's better those are under

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control thermals all right for your convenience i'm going to talk through

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the h115i so that's the 280 millimeter aio water cooler and the nhd15 air

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cooler at the same time because their performance profiles were somewhat

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similar under stock operation both of them actually didn't manage to

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outperform the nhu 12s by a significant

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margin which i was a little bit surprised to see especially that

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equivalency in the hottest core while the system was turboing but when

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it came time to unlock the power limits with multi-core enhancement

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both these solutions clearly separated themselves from everything that we've

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seen so far not just managing 4.9 gigahertz across the board but doing it

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with core temperatures that i would consider to be maybe not

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the most comfortable we are still up in the 80 high 90 low degree range but once

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you sub out our thermal pad for a high quality thermal grease

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definitely acceptable and around that 80 degrees that we talked about in our

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original review what all of that means is that if i was looking for additional

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overclocking headroom i would absolutely recommend spending the hundred plus

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dollars on a thermal solution like this but if all i wanted was to get the most

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out of my CPU and i knew that i wasn't going to be hitting it this hard all the

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time around 50 to 60 dollars for a good

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