News Intel stock CPU coolers may get Alder Lake refresh

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.

 

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.

 

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?