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So, I was in the middle of setting up a uh a test bench that I'm going to be

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using over the next little while here for an upcoming TechTips project. You

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can see I'm using all of the uh the best and latest stuff sort of thing. I've got

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an EVGA classified X58 4-way SLI board.

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I mean, the video card's not exceptional. It's a GTX 260, but I've

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got the OCZ Vertex Limited Edition in there as well. Anyway, I came across

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something that I thought was sort of worth mentioning, and it's a new Intel

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stock cooler. So, you can see that this cooler is is a heat pipe design. Unlike

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previous Intel stock coolers, it has uh four heat pipes that each run down

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through the base. 1 2 3 4 and then up to the top. And you can see it's got like a

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nice little Intel cap. And another thing that it also has is it has a quiet

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versus a performance mode on it. Much like their old extreme edition cooler,

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which actually if I go over to my work PC, I have one

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of those in my uh in my work PC. So, you

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can see that one is a blue LED fan and

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it has a little switch right about there that allows you to turn the RPMs up or

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down. And let me see if I can

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Not sure if you could hear the difference in sound, but I have it in quiet mode for the most part. Anyway,

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let's go back over here. So, anyway, this is taking a while to focus here.

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Let's see if it can do it. Come on. There you go. Okay, so it has what

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appears to be a 92mm fan, 4 pin PWM

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design, and unlike previous Intel stock coolers, this is the best part. I think

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it actually uses a back plate to mount

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to the CPU. So rather than relying on those push pins, we've got it's a

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plastic back plate, so there's nothing particularly great about it. It's it's

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going to flex a little bit, but that's not going to matter because the most important thing is just that we're using

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thumb screws which push through to a back plate rather than relying on

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plastic push pins. I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say

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about it. But there you have it. That's uh clipped on there. It's a new Intel

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stock heat sink. Oh, and I should do the obligatory like finger shininess shot

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here. So, you can see the bottom is lapped to be very, very, very shiny.

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See, you can see my camera now.

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Another interesting thing I noticed about this cooler, and I apologize in advance for the terrible lighting that's

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going on right now. Just blew a breaker, and the light above me is is actually

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out. But another thing I noticed is like a lot of aftermarket heat sinks these

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days, you can see that the new Intel stock cooler is bowed. You can tell by

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the very bare patch in the middle where the CPU heat sink is making very, very

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strong contact with the processor itself. So, all I did was tighten the

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thumb screws down as far as they go, which as far as I can tell is what you're supposed to do. And you can see I

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got very much more buildup around the outside and a very, very good contact

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patch right in the middle. Very cool.