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every non-key or X processor from Intel comes packed with this little guy right here and I mean little whether it's been by removing thin area or eliminating performance enhancing copper slugs intel has been costing down their box cooler for years years I mean to be clear it is adequate for default operation but it would easily be overwhelmed by an overclocked processor but what is Intel made a stock heatsink specifically for K series and x-series overclockable chips well it turns out they do and it looks pretty much like what you'd expect if Intel's cooling engineers the same ones what bring you this were terminally unimaginative and we're told well make something like that but that performs a bit better so it looks about like the stock cooler on roids but did the treatment give it better performance or just mood swings fatigue and a deflated sex drive let's find out the be quiet dark BassPro 900s modular design supports a variety of different layouts and configurations click on the link in the video description to learn more okay silly intro aside taking the Intel thermal solution gs-15 a out of the box it looks pretty much like somebody took three or so regular Intel stock heat sinks and glued them together the push mounting pins remain for that easy installation and the fan clips on to the top exactly the same way it normally would looking more closely at it though reveal some differences so the regular heatsink uses an aluminum extrusion process to create the required profile that's great for keeping costs down but not so great for having thin higher performance fins so for the gs-15 a which will be calling roy d from now on each pin here is actually its own bank piece of metal that meets at the center so you can kind of see it here around a copper slug this increases performance but also increases manufacturing cost but how much additional performance does it actually get you and can you slap a decent overclock on your processor using it and then perhaps more importantly at this price does it make any sense to actually go and buy this product compared to larger and probably better coolers like the cooler master hyper 212 evo they are available for as little as only two dollars more to test this we first ran a couple of other heat sinks on an Intel Core i7 7700 K at both the stock speed of 4.5 gigahertz turbo and a modest 4.8 gigahertz overclock that was mostly there to increase its Hido the stocks and curve was used for these tests and we also used the thermal compound that comes pre applied to these things out of the box and yeah it couldn't quite do it add the stock speed the roided cooler was able to pull off a warm 81 degrees Celsius but with our step fairly reasonable overclock it throttled hard reaching a hundred degrees Celsius in about 30 seconds the only thing in our test table here that performed worse than the ROI cooler was actually the regular Intel stock cooler which immediately throttled so badly that we just cancelled the test out of pity for both our board and our chip you know what it's not all terrible news though I mean it was able to maintain 4.7 gigahertz in the point 1 volt offset test which wasn't really fair because that makes this chip more like a space heater than a room heater get it cuz like outer space anyway and with a bit of tweaking we were actually able to get this processor up to a stable 4.9 gigahertz without it thermal throttling that is to say upstairs where the temperatures are about 5 degrees cooler here it is definitely thermal throttling but it's still managing about 4.8 gigahertz sustained at 100 degrees ok then so it performs a bit worse than a hyper 212 Evo dome product video over right wrong if I'm investing 33 of my hard-earned dollars plus shipping we're going to dig deep what about a comparison to AMD's cooler that's sort of a stocks cooler but you also have to buy it separately now the easiest way to see how these stack up would be to use the same heat load of the same CPU but unfortunately that isn't possible given that there aren't currently any am4 to LGA 1151 mounting adapters or vice-versa so we devised a completely over engineered and clever plan to use an intermediary reference cooler that was compatible with both or because we're thorough like that we actually used a total of three references and looking at the results AMD is the winner for non stock stock cooler performance although only by a slim 5% over royalty and at 12 percent more expensive it looks like it's pretty much coming down to whether it's worth it to you to pay seven percent for that RGB lighting although there is one other thing that really differentiates them as well the noise level once the intel fan kicks in it reaches about 40 decibels which isn't overly loud but the AMD Wraith cooler comes in at 38 decibels so you think okay that's pretty similar uh ah the AMD cooler is at a low frequency so tuning it out is easy kind of like a clothes dryer in the other room the intel cooler on the other hand is high-pitched and very distracting kind of like your boss which hey anyway at this point you might assume that we aren't big fans of paying aftermarket dollars for OEM design and that we think buying the intel thermal solution ts 50 I would be super dumb and that would be correct great work detective this is Omar's cherrywood earbuds they are as I mentioned handcrafted from natural cherry wood with handmade details and they've got all the normal features you'd expect from headphones as well including a built-in microphone with one button function control coaxial dual driver speakers a 45-degree oblique angle design and it comes prepackaged with three pairs of ultra soft silicon ear pads and small medium and large sizes these things are 50 bucks on Amazon and US residents can use code Oh earbuds to save 40% which would make them $30 and these are absolutely ignoring the wood handcrafted miss these things sound killer for 30 bucks like unbelievable so go check 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