Gadgetory

so I was in the middle of setting up the test bench that I'm going to be using over the next little while here for an upcoming tech tips project you can see I'm using all of the the best and latest stuff sort of thing I've got an EVGA classified x 58 4 Way SLI board I mean the video cards not exceptional it's a gtx 260 but I've got the OCZ vertex limited edition in there as well anyway I came across something that I thought was sort of worth mentioning and it's a new Intel stock cooler so you can see that this cooler is is a heat pipe design unlike previous Intel stock coolers it has four heat pipes that each run down through the base one two three four and then up to the top and you can see it's got like a nice little intel cap and another thing that it also has is it has quiet versus a performance mode on it much like their old Extreme Edition cooler which actually do need to do if I go over to my work PC I have one of those in my in my work PC so you can see that one is blue LED fan and it has a little switch right about there that allows you to turn the RPMs up or down and let me see if I can not sure if you could hear the difference in sound but I have it in quiet mode for the most part anyway let's go back over here so anyway this is taking a while to focus here let's see if it can do it come on there you go okay so it has what appears to be a 92 millimeter fan for pin pwm design and unlike previous Intel stock coolers this is the best part I think it actually uses a backplate to mount to the CPU so rather than relying on those pushpins we've got it's a plastic backplate so there's nothing particularly great about it it's it's gonna flex a little bit but that's not going to matter because the most important thing is just that we're using thumb screws which push through to a backplate rather than relying on plastic pushpins I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about it but there you have it that's uh clipped on there the new Intel stock heatsink oh and I should do the obligatory like finger shininess shot here so you can see the bottom is lapped to be very very very shiny so you can see my camera now another interesting thing I noticed about this cooler and I apologize in advance for the terrible lighting that's going on right now just blew a breaker and the light above me is is actually out but another thing I noticed is like a lot of aftermarket heat sinks these days you can see that the new Intel stock cooler is bowed you can tell by the very bare patch in the middle where the CPU heatsink is making very very strong contact with the processor itself so all I did was tighten the thumbscrews down as far as they go which as far as I can tell us what you're supposed to do and you can see I got very much more build-up around the outside and in a very very good contact patch right in the middle very cool