Intel vs AMD - The Ultimate Stock Cooler Showdown
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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956 words · ~4 min read
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if you're looking into a processor there's loads of references you can check out for performance breakdowns and
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stuff like that in order to determine which one is better but no one ever
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really compares the difference in their stock coolers so if you have an option
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between coolers which should you choose let's find out also stay subscribed for
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tips save on Intel 730 series ssds
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during Intel's president week sale February 22nd to March 1st 2015 click to
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learn more now so we started by sourcing the stock coolers I acquired three
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offerings from AMD a standard cooler with a copper slug in the middle a
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standard cooler without a copper slug in the middle and a heat pipe based cooler
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with a larger copper base from Intel I actually only have one cooler it's their
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little one that they've been shipping for quite some time which also Sports a
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copper slug in the middle for platforms I'll be using a stock AMD A10 800k and a
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4790k I'll be testing each CPU Cooler on both CPUs so the mounting is going to
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get get a little bit ghetto here and they're not super designed to go on each
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platform so there might even be some modifications going on to fit the AMD
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CPUs onto the Intel platform all I really had to do was create two zap
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strap loops and fed them through the motherboard through the existing holes
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and while this wasn't exactly elegant I actually didn't really interfere with
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the cooler all that much and it was relatively easy to do if you were to do
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do this on your own I would highly recommend a proper base and using the
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mounting hardware from maybe a different cooler and modifying it to your needs
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the Intel cooler was an different Beast entirely due to the clip-like feet these
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feet stopped the cooler from being able to make a connection with the CPU as
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they stood off from the motherboard therefore they were removed in the name
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of science the Intel heat sinks fan Clips on using the longer parts of its
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leg which is an issue but thankfully the
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base of the actual metal where the copper slug is is actually taller than
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the rest of the unit so the first thing I removed was the fan mounting hardware
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and the fan itself from the heat sink two of the mounting legs had additional
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clips for attaching to the heat sink and two didn't I completely cut off the ones
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that didn't have any additional clip and the other ones I removed the mounting
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legs really quickly and then shaved them down as short as they could go while
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still having the clip attached and still being strong enough to hold on from
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there it was essentially the same as the AMD coolers in terms of mounting to the
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motherboard so all the coolers are trapped in literally and we're ready to
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go The Benchmark we'll use is Ida 64 stability test which will which we have
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set up to test the CPU FPU cache and
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system memory this test will be ran for at least 10 minutes or longer depending
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on if the system seems to have hit a constant temperature or not and each
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cooler and CPU will be wiped clean with 99% isopropyl alcohol and toilet paper
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before every test I'm using IC Diamond thermal compound to remove variables as
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I would only be able to use the stock thermal paste on these coolers once once
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which makes it generally useless the results were rather expected bigger
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cooler does better and when size is similar the ones with copper slugs
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outperform those without and the bigger cooler with the most copper in it and
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the one that also had happened to have heat pipes did the best overall one
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thing to note is that the goal of this video is to compare the available stock
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cooling solutions not which CPU has better thermal output that's a different
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story for another time in conclusion the coolers are kind of made for what
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platform they're going on but if you have an option between an AMD and Intel CPU Cooler regardless of your CPU you
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should probably grab the AMD one either solution will definitely get the job
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done if you're just running at stock but if you have the option you might as well
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take it this does draw upon another question however which I would love to
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dive into if you guys are interested is aftermarket cooling worth it for price
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per performance in early 2015 and if so
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how much should you really invest let me know if this is something you're interested over on the Forum while
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you're there click the support us box link thing in the top right hand corner
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and change your Amazon links to ours that'll help us out a lot especially
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with the weird YouTube changes that are going on lately you you can become a
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contributor to The Forum there is some cool stuff coming for those guys soon
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and if you're tired of the Forum and don't want to be over there because you're done commenting back on YouTube
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subscribe like dislike do all those things based on which cooler you like
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more I'm not going to tell you which option to choose depending on that but
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you'll figure it out anyways guys thanks for watching and I'll see you next time
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