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Intel's New Boxed Desktop CPU Cooler Revealed

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Courtesy of serial leaker @momomo_us, who dug up the product pages for Intel's two new retail boxed CPU coolers, we now know what they'll look like ahead of them shipping. The two coolers are known as the Laminar RH2 and Laminar RM2, with the RH2 being the higher-end model of the two. The RH2 has a copper heat column that attaches to aluminium fins and it's decorated with an aRGB LED ring, as well as a white Intel LED logo. It stands 71 mm tall from the base of the heatsink to the top of the fan and is overall 103 x 103 mm and it weighs in at 450 grams. It's rated for CPUs up to 65 W TDP and the fan operates between 1000 and 3000 rpm and supports variable speed via PWM control. It will output 23 dBA at 1600 RPM with the CPU at 40 degrees C, according to the specs. It appears to come with some kind of back plate and it's screwed in place. It will only ship with the Intel Core Ultra 9 Processor 285 for now.

The much more basic RM2 cooler is designed for 65 W TDP CPUs and it measures 100 x 100 mm, but it only stands 47 mm tall. Here only the base of the cooler is made out of copper, the fins are once again made from aluminium and this results in a lower weight of 340 grams. The fan speed range is 600 to 3250 rpm and we're looking at a PWM controlled fan here too. The downside is that the fan has to run at 2400 rpm to produce the same 40 degrees at the inlet with a 65 W CPU underneath it, which results in a noise level of 30 dBA, which is a lot louder than the RH2. Unlike the RH2, the RM2 uses standard Intel socket push-pins for mounting. The RM2 will ship with the Intel Core Ultra 5 Processor 225, 225F, 235, 265 and 265F CPUs, but according to the product page, it will also ship with some Core Ultra 7 desktop chips. Both coolers come with a three-year warranty. Design wise, both of the new coolers are a lot less flashy compared to the previous generation of Intel CPU coolers.



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It seems that Intel's formula at this point with their box coolers is to keep the aluminum bits the same but make the shroud and fan different. I like how the newest one looks, but the push pins need to die.
 

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I wonder if their OEM is Akasa by this stage.

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Thermaltake also do the same style of coolers but I honestly have never seen them out in the wild. TT call it their 'Gravity' series.
 

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I wonder if their OEM is Akasa by this stage.

Thermaltake also do the same style of coolers but I honestly have never seen them out in the wild. TT call it their 'Gravity' series.
I believe Akasa are too small to be an Intel manufacturing partner. More likely it's some unheard of xina company, or someone like CM.
 
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Ahh, the famous BA unit of sound level…

At this point if Intel wants to make the value seems smaller just go for the decaBel worth 10 bels.
At 0.22 daBA the sound power level is so low! Or maybe the kiloBel: 0.0022 is so silent!
 
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Ahh, the famous BA unit of sound level…

At this point if Intel wants to make the value seems smaller just go for the decaBel worth 10 bels.
At 0.22 daBA the sound power level is so low! Or maybe the kiloBel: 0.0022 is so silent!
Does this help?

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Very unlikely. I rarely use stock coolers. I only have one in my collection and haven't used it on a long time.

I thought your livelihood put you in contact with a lot of customer pc's and new builds. My mistake.
 
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Guess the u3-205 is OEM only then? Because they don't show the RM2 as coming with Core Ultra 3 chips, and additionally Intel has not listed the prices for it on Ark, unlike the rest of the 200S lineup.
 
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I thought your livelihood put you in contact with a lot of customer pc's and new builds. My mistake.
Yup. We rarely use the stock cooler. We always use after market coolers as a rule, regardless of Intel or AMD. Whenever we find one, we replace it and throw the stock junk in the recycle bin. Not going to test it as I consider them inferior. When AMD and Intel start including heatsink/fan combo's worthy of respect, I start taking them seriously and testing them.
 

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Intel should really stop nick’ling and dimëing their customers, they could really use all the goodwill they can get.
Yup. We rarely use the stock cooler. We always use after market coolers as a rule, regardless of Intel or AMD. Whenever we find one, we replace it and throw the stock junk in the recycle bin. Not going to test it as I consider them inferior. When AMD and Intel start including heatsink/fan combo's worthy of respect, I start taking them seriously and testing them.
What a waste. Hand them out instead? How much do you get per piece as waste?—AMD’s Wraith has received good reviews, do you consider it trash as well?
 
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When AMD and Intel start including heatsink/fan combo's worthy of respect, I start taking them seriously and testing them.
How will you know since you don't use them? :nutkick:
just busting your balls m8 :toast:
 
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I do fancy those two! They look really pretty.
 
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Why use such a small fan?

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Small fan bad
Bigger fan good
Simple stuff, really...
 
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AMD’s Wraith has received good reviews, do you consider it trash as well?
To be fair, none of them are terrible, they get the job done. However, the vast majority of stock coolers are easily clogged with dust & muck and performance drops off a cliff when that happens. Most aftermarket coolers generally continue working well even when clogged up.
 
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Shrouds add a significant amount of air flow and the size of the fan and it's position determine it's effectiveness.

so it's probably more of a because that's the best fit
They could have simply made the shroud bigger.
 
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They could have simply made the shroud bigger.
Seems to me like they made a shroud for 92mm fan, then found a super-cheap 80mm fan supplier, so just filled in the gap with cheap plastic!
 
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I actually want them to make something like this but with a heatsink proper enough to handle ~100 W and with a fan about as windy as 2500 RPM at a full throttle.
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It's Gamma Archer, 120 mm.

My current Laminar RM1 is enough to cool an i5-12400F but I'd rather have something more sophisticated.
 
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Are heatpipes just that expensive? There have been much better solutions on the market for a while and I'm not sure why Intel still manufactures these coolers.
 
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