brother.wayne

that's the thing I don't understand in recent LTT videos:
It is ok to test it with a higher watt cpu for the lol factor, but if it is only designed to cool a 65 W TDP cpu, WHY DON'T THEY TEST IT with a 65W TDP chip to confirm at least if it holds up to what it promises to do?
A really informative video would do the test with the 65W TDP chip, comparing intel stock (that actually comes with the 65W chips intel makes and not slapping one generic version of some other whatever TDP chip on the 7700k) and the 5$ chip. And to have a real comparison, you should run the tests with the stock thermal paste that comes with the coolers and one aftermarket on both so you can see if the heatsink is more limited by the thermal paste that comes with it or the heatsink itself has a bad design. And after that, you could slap it on the 7700k and see what happens.
This video is like having a opel corsa with 69 PS, going to a drag event with tuned american muscle cars and then be suprised that you have the slowest car.
I started watching LTT videos back in 2015 when choosing parts for my first pc. Back then the videos were informative and entertaining at the same time, but since they moved to the new studio, they went more and more crazy and less and less informative. Why can't you @LinusTech start again combining both and not going holy shit and over the top on everything? If the trend continues, I'm probably stop watching the videos, as this shifted form of entertaining is not my taste anymore, and I'm probably not the only one. Clickbaity titles is one thing, but keeping a level of information provided in videos should be possible. Because anybody who will buy that heatsink, probably won't slap it on a 7700k, but probably on a pentium/i3 and will now know not more than before watching that video.