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the fossils oops that never happened mmm start again hey guys welcome back for another hardware unbox video today we're talking temps so things could get a little hot though they probably won't get Fermi hot recently I set out to determine if it's worth paying the premium for the horizon 5 1600 x over the standard 1600 model especially if you plan to overclock the 1600 X is price just 14% or $30.00 us more but for me the biggest issue is the fact that the Wraith spire cooler is dropped from the package the spire is aimed is new 95 watt box cooler and it works rather well it also looks quite nice too the spire will allow rise in five owners to overclock though as you start to near the CPUs limits things do get quite hot now the X rated chips are meant to offer greater overclocking Headroom thanks to the bidding process though we have seen little evidence of this that said with Verizon's very limited overclocking potential we have found little difference between the various models for example we have come across 1600 X models that are limited to 3.9 Gigot while we have tested 1600 chips that are good for 4.1 gigahertz so as always it comes down to the silicon lottery I wouldn't recommend buying the 1600 X over the 1600 because you believe it will ensure great overclocking Headroom again it just seems to be luck of the draw at this point anyway a few viewers did raise some interesting questions that I didn't address in my previous video things like if you already have a good aftermarket cooler that's a m4 compatible is it worth buying the 1600 X or if you plan to overclock the base model 1600 to the max should you ditch the box colour anyway and pick up a proven budget performer such as cooler masters 212 for the first question again I would still up for the cheaper 1600 with the 1600 X nothing is guaranteed and I'm not even sure if your odds are any better at this point $30.00 US isn't a huge amount of money but still why waste it now when it comes to maximum overclock getting four gigahertz or beyond if possible should you upgrade the cooler anyway well the rave spire does work at forward gigahertz and with the default fan profile on my gigabyte be 350 board it's not even that loud that said though it is very hot so for those of you who requested it I have decided to compare the Wraith spire to the cooler master 212 on their eyes and 5 1,600 1,500 X and 1400 please note the 1600 and 1500 X do come with the Wraith spire while the 1400 comes with a smaller cooler a 65 watt model known as the Wraith stealth the stealth won't be able to handle a full gigahertz overclock so for that particular CPU you will need to upgrade the cooler here are a few quick notes testing was conducted on the gigabyte a be 350 gaming 3 motherboard and using this board the 1400 was limited to 3.9 gigahertz the 1500 X reach 3.9 5 gigahertz and the 1600 was still good for 4 gigahertz that said all three processors can achieve 4 gigahertz in my a m4 test system which uses the asrock X 370 Taichi the 1600 can even hit 4.1 gigahertz comfortably on that board overclocked all three CPUs were running at one point 4 volts the cooler master hyper 212 is a super popular aftermarket cooler as it costs just $20 u.s. and does a really good job on hand now I only have the 212 turbo which features an additional 120 millimeter fan taking the grand total to 2 thankfully though this model does feature a m4 socket support right out of the box to mimic base model 212 performance I have tested with just a single 120 millimeter fan installed finally for measuring temperatures we used hardware monitor version one point 31 and according to AMD this does accurately report operating temperatures of all their eyes and processes first up let's see what kind of gains the 212 can offer before any overclocking even takes place with the Wraith spire all three rows and five processors peaked at a little over 60 degrees which is very respectable for a box cooler particularly given how quiet it is that said there is still room for huge temperature improvements with the 212 especially for the 1400 the budget quad core temperatures drop by almost 30% with the aftermarket cooler meanwhile the 1500 X ray and 17% cooler and the 6 914 percent cooler the idle temperatures they were all much the same but this is to be expected okay so now on to the overclocking results this is where things get a bit dicey with the raise spire that said though the cooler was still reasonably quiet although it was audible over the case fans it wasn't exactly loud so you could spin up the fan a bit harder under load to rein in those temperatures a bit more using the default fan profiler 1600 and 1500 X were getting close to hitting 90 degrees and that's not far from the 95 degrees thermal limit moving to the 212 did reduce temperatures massively dropping the 1600 from 89 degrees to just 68 degrees a massive 24% reduction so 212 and it's single 120-millimeter found were extremely quiet and certainly couldn't be heard over the case fans this then makes it a worthwhile upgrade for those that do plan to overclock so as impressive as AMD's Box cooler is when compared to the junk Intel include with their CPUs it's still no substitute for a decent tower style cooler still though if you can handle a bit of fan noise then winding the fan speed up should keep the temperatures in check even at 4 gigahertz so I'd probably opt for something like cooler masters 212 given how significant the thermal improvements were and for me this really makes buying the cheaper 9 X 1600 even easier to justify the $30.00 you save can go towards buying a 212 and you're basically breaking even on that purchase that should have us covered for this one guys but as always if you have any questions feel free to drop them below and I'll do my best to answer them I'm your host Steve see you again soon