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hey yall I was watching the new pc live build from 2 days ago and saw the intel stock cooler and its hideous why are amd stock coolers so much better looking, and I am not just taling about the skittles colored wires though that is part of it. but the overall design as well.

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Why put money into something that no one is going to use 

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Just now, the_Gaming_Lad said:

hey yall I was watching the new pc live build from 2 days ago and saw the intel stock cooler and its hideous why are amd stock coolers so much better looking, and I am not just taling about the skittles colored wires though that is part of it. but the overall design as well.

Other than the wires and the sticker on the cooler, I personally think AMD/Intel stock coolers look pretty comparable :P

But I think it's just that we're all used to seeing Intel stock cooler in so many system over the past 10+ years with them having little to no innovation.

 

I'd bet if they  sleeved the cable, made the logo sticker simpler and maybe made the clips a bit less big, an Intel stock cooler and AMD stock cooler would look just about the same.

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2 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Why put money into something that no one is going to use 

Well one could make the argument that if Intel actually put effort into making their stock coolers look nice and function well then people would actually use them. There are plenty of people out there who use and like the stock AMD cooler because they look really nice (especially the wraith prism), and function just as well as any other cooler you could buy separately for around $30-40 (provided you don't care about overclocking).

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1 minute ago, WaggishOhio383 said:

Well one could make the argument that if Intel actually put effort into making their stock coolers look nice and function well then people would actually use them. There are plenty of people out there who use and like the stock AMD cooler because they look really nice (especially the wraith prism), and function just as well as any other cooler you could buy separately for around $30-40 (provided you don't care about overclocking).

They may be in the mindset that they already have the manufacturing infrastructure for the coolers and don't want to invest into changing it 

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Just now, Slottr said:

They may be in the mindset that they already have the manufacturing infrastructure for the coolers and don't want to invest into changing it 

And I wouldn't either, its serviceable at best and for the average user - enough

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12 minutes ago, the_Gaming_Lad said:

hey yall I was watching the new pc live build from 2 days ago and saw the intel stock cooler and its hideous why are amd stock coolers so much better looking, and I am not just taling about the skittles colored wires though that is part of it. but the overall design as well.

Why did you use a run-on sentence and terrible punctuation?

 

Not trying to me mean or silly.

 

The answer to that is the reason why Intel uses that exact stock cooler.  They figured that the amount of time and effort into their cooler was commiserate with it's use and value.  It cools enough for stock use.  It does it's job, enough to get by.  Just like you got your question across with minimal effort.

 

 

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19 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Why put money into something that no one is going to use 

Ehhh... If you put moneyinto it, people will use it. Wraith coolers are always better than the Intel stock coolers. People use the wraith coolers.

 

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10 minutes ago, Glenwing said:

People who use the Intel stock cooler generally don't look at the inside of their computer.

Especially when a sticker on the side of the case says "Intel Inside"..

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25 minutes ago, the_Gaming_Lad said:

hey yall I was watching the new pc live build from 2 days ago and saw the intel stock cooler and its hideous why are amd stock coolers so much better looking, and I am not just taling about the skittles colored wires though that is part of it. but the overall design as well.

Because box coolers are mostly used in budget or low cost systems or workstations where they just work. They may not win any beauty pageants, but they cool the CPU's well enough. And cost little since they are mostly just extruded chunk of aluminium or at best chunk of extruded aluminium with copper core. No heatpipes, nothing. Intel did make about the same ugly stock coolers with vapor chamber in the middle instead of solid copper core, but they only came with Extreme Edition CPU's back then.

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30 minutes ago, the_Gaming_Lad said:

and saw the intel stock cooler and its hideous

 

29 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Why put money into something that no one is going to use 

 

18 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

The answer to that is the reason why Intel uses that exact stock cooler.  They figured that the amount of time and effort into their cooler was commiserate with it's use and value. 

 

29 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

Because they're old and it's cheaper to keep producing old stuff that works, instead of inventing new stuff.

funny thing is, they did actually remodel the cooler for 10th gen

 

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barely different but at least much sleeker, without the clashing shiny blue sticker and colored cables.

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Just now, Fasauceome said:

 

 

 

funny thing is, they did actually remodel the cooler for 10th gen

 

 

 

barely different but at least much sleeker.

Ok, thats not too bad.

 

Too bad it's the same physical cooler though 

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Too bad it's the same physical cooler though 

actually they re-added the copper core as well, cools pretty good.

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5 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

actually they re-added the copper core as well, cools pretty good.

Huh. I guess I gotta spend less time on r/ayymd 

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It exists to do the basic job of cooling the CPU.  Not really intended for anything beyond that.

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-> Moved to Air Cooling

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I guess Intel is happy to say a penny while keeping them same from generation to generation.

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1 hour ago, Dedayog said:

Why did you use a run-on sentence and terrible punctuation?

 

Not trying to me mean or silly.

 

 

because I struggle, and always have with writing and punctuation, and it is difficult for me to write well.

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57 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

 

 

 

funny thing is, they did actually remodel the cooler for 10th gen

 

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barely different but at least much sleeker, without the clashing shiny blue sticker and colored cables.

that is much better looking, though I still think AMD is slightly ahead

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