Intel vs AMD Stock CPU Coolers

[MooseCheese]

As terrible as they are, it's never a bad idea to have one laying around in the event that you do need temporary cooling from one.

I completely agree. I'm currently installing hard tubing into my watercooling loop and when I'm done with cutting, bending and polishing for an evening, I can still get my PC running for the rest of the evening.

Charlie

[tnlich]

After market coolers . Max $50 USA for AIR and $90 for Closed loop Water cooled. Personally I would use water cooled for longer life or major Overclocking.

[Faceman]

Price to performance aftermarket CPU cooler has to be the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO.  Or if you can find a Be Quiet! Shadow Rock 2 for $30.

[TheProfosist]

The 2011 samples we get don't come with a cooler, which is why we weren't able to include any other variants of Intel cooler.

Thanks for the quick and prompt reply!

If you want some from 775 though haswell just let me know I can dig some up. Im pretty sure the K sku 1156 has the best ones that would fit a modern chip but even the 1155 ones were a great deal beefier (thicker heasink and better fan) than the ones included today. However the AMD ones havent changed since neither have the CPUs

I however dont have either of the 2011 ones but I did have the one that is a bigger variant of the consumer one which came with a xeon. Here is a link to it separately on newegg http://goo.gl/Dpp9vH. Also the AMD AIO one came with the FX 9000 series CPUs but that would kinda kill the comparison. Im pretty sure that it was the same as the intel 2011 one

Note: The reason why I mentioned the K sku parts was they they are the only ones to come with the copper core, the rest are solid aluminum.

Addition: Also there was no need to really ghetto mount the AMD coolers on Intel. There are many aftermarket coolers mostly older (1156 and 1155 era) that were actually AMD mount native and provided a backplate and mount to convert AMD boards to Intel. I would be rather surprised if LMG didn't have at least one of these floating around. This was back when AMD was still competitive and it was cheaper for manufacturers to do that if they wanted compatibility for bothe platforms at the least cost.

[Linux User]

Just grab a 212 EVO and you'll be fine. You really shouldn't spend more than that unless you are going all out or have notoriously hot CPUs (cough 9590 cough)

[AxelRantila]

Even though this was an interesting video, Noctua Mustard Race!

[Megahurt]

I bought a raijintek themis for under 25$ shipped, haven't owned a 212 evo but it's supposed to perform similarly. Needless to say I'm very satifird for the price I paid.

[YT2002]

I would like to see how much is should pay. My upcoming pc doesnt have a cpu cooler due too budgets and i would like to see how much i should pay.

[Gullerback]

I'm pretty much with everyone else, When you can get a 212 for under 30, or a TX3 for under 25.  Theres not much reason to use stock coolers unless absolutely necessary 

[Bicketybam]

Luke said "Stay Subscribed"... is that a thing? Do you get people that constantly unsubscribe and resubscribe a lot?   

[Takata]

I was expecting the intel cooler to do terribly on the AMD CPU, and the AMD cooler to do terribly on the intel CPU, due to how hacked together the mounting solution was. I'm surprised the coolers maintain a consistent ranking, despite the mounting problems.

 

Still, I don't see the point of this video. Luke prefixes his tests with "if you have the option, which (heatsink) should you choose", but the amount of extra work it takes to get a stock heatsink onto a mismatched CPU makes it a really unattractive choice. ...and even if you didn't find it -that- unattractive, you would almost certainly have a better choice - use the heatsink that came with your CPU, since it has the correct mounting hardware. ...and if you have a CPU that doesn't come with a heatsink, you shouldn't be using any of the stock coolers anyway. >.>

[timonius93]

Would love to see a price/performance check for aftermarket cooling.

 

Maybe

 

stock

vs. low end air cooler

vs. higher end air cooler

vs. low end aio water cooler

[idieorudie]

Aftermarket cooler vs stock cooler video - should it be done?

Yes!!

[ChrisCross]

when you consider silence as a part of performance I would say aftermarket coolers are worth it

[MetaDrow]

AMD stock cooler, I really don't like intel's push pins for their coolers.

[JoaoPRSousa]

Now we just need people saying that the Intel stock one is the best, because you can OC a Pentium up yi 4.2 with it :lol:

[MeltingPoint]

"Click to learn more now"

[Carnoustie14]

Ok, major flaw that I see in this video is that fanspeed isn't standardized or included. 

That doesn't make any difference, the cooler should do that automatically. Further testing the coolers, not just the heatsinks.

 

It would likely get the same result anyway

[marvin968]

Hey Luke, do the video about investing on an aftermarket cooler (Early 2015).

[PlayModeOn]

I hate my FX-8350 stock cooler!

It is louder than my electric fan and aircon.

 

Hey Luke, do the video about investing on an aftermarket cooler (Early 2015). 

I need this right now!

[PlayModeOn]

-double post- 

[kameshss]

 

I think those who can't afford after market CPU coolers, should go with as we say "PRICE TO PERFORMANCE" CPU cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO. Best replacement for stock cooler and does awesome job.

[raidenfreeman]

Yup do an evaluation of after market coolers. I wouldn't really focus though on people that don't OC at all, since after market coolers are just more quiet in that case, and I guess that most people watching this channel do OC, even a little.

[SairesArt]

Luke, your wrapup is wrong and here is why:

The AMD fx Stock fan (the one with the heatpipes) has a BIG BIG issue; The stock fan on the stock cooler has a diode in it, which controls speeds indepentant of the pwm or voltage regulated by the Mobo. Thus if you boot up the system, 25% speed is 600RPM and 100% is 3500.

But if the diode reports high tempreatures 25% is 2500 and 1000% somewhere around 7000rpm. (which is loud as crap btw)

So, me being a naive quite system enthusiast, setup a fan curve for the stock cooler, after testing it for some time. 40% seemed like fast enough to cool it on load. Guess what, reboot a day later, start gaming and the fan runs at only 1000RPM, while the CPU cooks at 80ish degrees.

SO, DO NOT USE IT, its INCOMPATIBLE with many setups and will completely destroy ANY consistency you might expect.

 

I run my AMD fx-8350 on an H212 on 4,7ghz 24/7, whisper quite on idle, so aftermarket is still the goto for any reasonable build. (ps: i kinda won the silicon lottery)

[TobyKSweetman]

Definitely would like to see more cooler related videos that aren't reviews.