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News Intel stock CPU coolers may get Alder Lake refresh

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by bit-tech, 13 Sep 2021.

  1. bit-tech

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  2. damien c

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    Personally I think why bother, they are barely going to cope with the ovens that are Intel CPU's lately if more than 2 cores are included, not that AMD are a huge amount better but at least the AMD coolers can cope at stock speeds.
     
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    They don't really have a choice. Intel's stock coolers have been a joke for decades and AMD have produced capable coolers, which might allow those on a budget to put money towards more critical parts. If you realistically have to consider an additional £25-£40 for a decent cooler, it might be enough to tip the scale in AMD's favour when costing your build.
     
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    I suppose it might work if they were sensible enough to exclude the cooler altogether and knock that extra cost off the price of the chips (and include a note to say "cooler required"), but then we'd be assuming "sensible" and "strategy" be included in the same flip-chart meeting and I'm not sure I've ever seen that happen.

    If you're going the length of buying your own components rather than a pre-built machine, then it's not really a great big extra giant enormous step to add "cooler" to your shopping list.

    PS. Does anybody actually buy the stock coolers advertised for sale on ebay sans chip?
     
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    It'd only take an ok 120mm tower cooler to make a half decent effort of cooling them. Although wouldn't be shocked to see an aio with the i9s, give them a chance at some more fancy boxes. Make them available with or without for those that want their own cooler choice.
     
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