Why do Reference Coolers Suck?

[Thebman712]

well they are good as they are meant for dual gpu setups, they take air out of the case and away from the other cards, but amds options do suck ass

[nosirrah123]

Well for one thing I actually do like the R9 290X/290/280X/270X coolers just wished they were made of metal.

Not all of them suck I just don't appreciate that they could've done better.

http://cdn2.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/AMD-Radeon-R9-290X-Hawaii-GPU.jpg

Could you imagine this cooler made of metal cause I can definitely. 6000s & 5000s not that great.

Are you talking from a aesthetics perspectives? Because performance-wise the 290/290x stock sounded like leaf-blowers and got super duper hot.

[Enderman]

High end extreme edition Intel CPUs do not come with a cooler because they KNOW that you will use aftermarket. Cheaper CPUs (4770k and below) always come with a cheap stock cooler for people who do not need an aftermarket cooler. If you do need one, then go out and buy one yourself. Intel is not going to make everyone pay for a feature only 50% of people will use.

[Tacitus]

Edit:

Why do AMD reference coolers suck?

lol

 

I was always led to believe them skimping on cooling solutions was the result of a smaller market share and their desire to hit the market at extremely competitive prices. Why spend a fortune developing a good cooler if most people will just buy an aftermarket one?

[wng_kingsley7]

Are you talking from a aesthetics perspectives? Because performance-wise the 290/290x stock sounded like leaf-blowers and got super duper hot.

I don't care about the blower design because it's still kinda pretty. Yeah it's hot but if it was mad of metal damn it'd be a fiesty gpu.

[Uber Hamburgler]

Well for one thing I actually do like the R9 290X/290/280X/270X coolers just wished they were made of metal.

Not all of them suck I just don't appreciate that they could've done better.

http://cdn2.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/AMD-Radeon-R9-290X-Hawaii-GPU.jpg

Could you imagine this cooler made of metal cause I can definitely. 6000s & 5000s not that great.

 

Making them from metal would help, but the blower design also appears to be rather inefficient.  Taking some cues from aircraft engine design, it would serve them well to use about 2/3 the amount of "blades" and make them large enough to extend all the way to the center bearing.  The 2/3 is just a guestimate, but I'm pretty positive on the concept of fewer, larger "blades"

[wng_kingsley7]

Making them from metal would help, but the blower design also appears to be rather inefficient.  Taking some cues from aircraft engine design, it would serve them well to use about 2/3 the amount of "blades" and make them large enough to extend all the way to the center bearing.  The 2/3 is just a guestimate, but I'm pretty positive on the concept of fewer, larger "blades"

Dude can you help me. I forgot the technology that now blower style fans are focusing n now. It's like when the base is connected to a array of fin stacks which are constantly spinning.

You got an idea of what I'm trying to convey & elaborate on?

[jojocool111]

Its supposed to be the cheap option and if you want to spend more you get an aftermarket one. also thats why evga does the asx version and stuff

*ACX 

[Uber Hamburgler]

Dude can you help me. I forgot the technology that now blower style fans are focusing n now. It's like when the base is connected to a array of fin stacks which are constantly spinning.

You got an idea of what I'm trying to convey & elaborate on?

 

What it seems to me that you are saying is that there is a vapor chamber on the processor, which is connected via a heat pipe to the heat sink which spins without the need for a fan.  Is that what you're saying?

 

Assuming that's what you mean, that isn't whay the blowers are targetting.  The notion behind using a blower is that they capitalize on the centrifugal momentum (not really worded accurately, but I think you get what I'm saying) so they don't have to be as strong as a normal fan would to give the same cooling performance, and hence are slightly cheaper to manufacture.  This means that they usually aren't balanced as well as normal fans, so they tend to make more noise for the same performance.  And because of them generating airflow laterally from within, or horizontally from the side of, the heatsink, you can really only use 1 per heatsink, which is why aftermarket coolers almost never use them.  This aside, I suspect that the real reason AMD uses them for their reference coolers is not just because they are cheaper, but because they are also more visually appealing with their current aesthetic design than a fan would be.

[YaNeZ]

Its all marketing, so aftermarket solutions can take even more of our money. Marginal but stil. They should make stock coolers the best ones, its their card...