Intel Slightly Upgrades Stock Coolers for Some of its Higher 10th Gen Core and Xeon-W

[btarunr]

Intel is packing a slightly improved stock heatsink-fan (HSF) cooling solution with some of its higher-end 10th generation Core desktop and select Xeon-W processors. The cooler, while nowhere close in size or weight to the TS15A, features a slightly thicker heatsink with a copper core, compared to the one included with lower-end parts such as the i5-10400. This heatsink's primary material is black anodized aluminium, with a copper core. The fan's cable is now black sleeved, instead of being a loose bunch of four ketchup-and-mustard wires. The hub of the fan, which usually had a white or blue label with ugly regulatory markings, now has a solid grey sticker with just the Intel logo.

There are no performance numbers, but the cooler looks physically similar to the copper core coolers Intel used to include with some of its oldest LGA115x processors, such as "Lynnfield" and " Sandy Bridge," capable of handling 95 W TDP. Intel is including the cooler with the Core i9-10900, the i9-10900F, i7-10700F, i7-10700; and Xeon W-1290, W-1270, and W-1250 boxed processors in the DIY retail channel.



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[Caring1]

This looks much better than the stock, shiny alloy cooler, although I'm sure it won't be suitable for an i9-10900.

 

[$ReaPeR$]

Still with those damn stupid plastic pins..

 

[Vario]

Still with those damn stupid plastic pins..

These units aren't bad if you use a bolt, washers, and a nut but the plastic pins are the real reason they don't cool well stock.

 

[EntropyZ]

Oh, so they brought back the copper slug that existed on the radiators with the socket 775 chips already. *yawn*

Still garbage even for a 65W chip.

 

[$ReaPeR$]

These units aren't bad if you use a bolt, washers, and a nut but the plastic pins are the real reason they don't cool well stock.

They are serviceable. For the vast majority of users. Their cooling performance is not hindered by the plastic pins but by their design, they do the job but those pins are shit when it comes to repasting and cleaning the cooler. I hope next time they follow AMD s lead with their wraith screw mounting points.

Oh, so they brought back the copper slug that existed on the radiators with the socket 775 chips already. *yawn*

Still garbage even for a 65W chip.

Lol yes hehehe
I think they're fine for factory settings tho.

 

[Animalpak]

Do not think to overclock with that on your CPU. Pathetic " cooler "

 

[Th3pwn3r]

POA.

Paperweight on arrival.

 

[Decryptor009]

Why did they paint a 775 cooler?

 

[hat]

It's still the same half-height cooler they introduced during the Core 2 Duo times. It may have worked okay on the 65w E8400, but not these.

 

[Paganstomp]

Put some paint and stickers on it and call it an "Upgrade".

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Awww, it's so cuuuute!

Seriously, even a basic Hyper 212 from Cooler Master is better than this...

 

[ratirt]

Upgrade? Intel you cheap bastard

 

[laszlo]

Upgrade? Intel you cheap bastard

is a "huge" upgrade - the cables are sleeved!

 

[Crackong]

This is just the good old 4th gen stock cooler painted black......

 

[londiste]

There are no performance numbers, but the cooler looks physically similar to the copper core coolers Intel used to include with some of its oldest LGA115x processors, such as "Lynnfield" and " Sandy Bridge," capable of handling 95 W TDP.

That cooler was used for 65W TDP CPUs, not 95W.
Listed CPUs are also 65W, so it won't be great but it'll work.

Put some paint and stickers on it and call it an "Upgrade".

These stock things have not had copper inserts for a while. So it is an upgrade, even if a small one.

 

[ShurikN]

This looks much better than the stock, shiny alloy cooler, although I'm sure it won't be suitable for an i9-10900.

This cooler is barely suitable for smaller 65W cpus let alone a 10 core one.
I personally wouldn't put this thing on anything higher than a pentium.

 

[Melvis]

Is this the biggest news from Intel in the last 10 years? since everything else has just been a yawn fest.

 

[dyonoctis]

For a company that sells itself as being premium, I don't understand why they are being so cheap about the cooler. AMD got less money, but can do it better...

 

[ratirt]

Maybe it will spin faster.

 

[londiste]

This cooler is barely suitable for smaller 65W cpus let alone a 10 core one.
I personally wouldn't put this thing on anything higher than a pentium.

We will have to see how this goes with 10-series but there has been a notable difference between how Intel K-models are running by default and how non-K models run by default. While we all have seen K-models consuming ungodly amounts of power, non-K models generally stick to the TDP for power limit with lower PL2 and Tau values for boost.

 

[hat]

Still, Intel can't afford to stay efficient when fighting off AMD with an old architecture on an old node. This cooler would have worked for the i7 7700, maybe even the i7 8700. I wouldn't expect the 8700 to hold turbo properly on all cores, though. With the 9 series and above, they started cramming in more cores at higher clocks than this old node and architecture can normally handle. They're effectively factory overclocked. They're way out of the efficiency curve with next to no headroom left.

 

[Octavean]

Still, Intel can't afford to stay efficient when fighting off AMD with an old architecture on an old node. This cooler would have worked for the i7 7700, maybe even the i7 8700. I wouldn't expect the 8700 to hold turbo properly on all cores, though. With the 9 series and above, they started cramming in more cores at higher clocks than this old node and architecture can normally handle. They're effectively factory overclocked. They're way out of the efficiency curve with next to no headroom left.

You said it right there,...

An old architecture on an old node so no surprise when it comes to an old cooler,.....

See, this is why we can’t have nice things,.....

 

[londiste]

Still, Intel can't afford to stay efficient when fighting off AMD with an old architecture on an old node. This cooler would have worked for the i7 7700, maybe even the i7 8700. I wouldn't expect the 8700 to hold turbo properly on all cores, though. With the 9 series and above, they started cramming in more cores at higher clocks than this old node and architecture can normally handle. They're effectively factory overclocked. They're way out of the efficiency curve with next to no headroom left.

This is my point - Intel's non-K models do not hold that excessive turbo. The boost period is still there but is actually limited with the long-term power limit set at TDP.

 

[Elysium]

This is just plain pathetic. If a reality existed where the Wraith Spire was socket cross-compatible, it would completely cuck this thing, and the Max/Prism would cuck the TS15A too.