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in tow I have a question for you when I purchased my i7 4790k I received a stock heatsink that included a copper slug which was quite nice to see especially considering the fact that copper is much more expensive per pound than aluminum is here in the States but I looked a little further in this matter because I didn't recall seeing copper slugs in some of the other stock heats things that I'd seen from Intel based CPUs and so when I did my research it was literally just as simple as opening one of the multiple boxes of old processors that I have back there I found that most of your skylake processors don't include copper slugs what's going on there now this was a bit confusing at first because even my i5 4460 from the Haswell lineup included a heatsink with a copper slug so these copper slugs aren't just biased towards unlocked K CPUs even my locked 4460 included one but every skylake process that i have purchased comes with one of these cheaper all aluminum heat sinks that's a little strange I know that skylight TDPS are a bit lower than has wells but I mean did that really mean having to cut back altogether on the quality of stock heat sinks so that's the question I want answered in this video if you are on a very strict budget and have to use a stock CPU cooler should you up for a CPU that includes one of these with a nice copper slug in the middle or just settle for the cheaper flimsier all aluminum one let's find out so here's what went down here in the studio after reassembling each stock heatsink with its respective fan even though both fans were nearly identical i mounted each atop my 6600 k which i had down clocked to 4 gigahertz at one point to 5 volts to use as a baseline as we're assuming a very strict budget the pre applied thermal paste on both units were utilized once each cooling device was secured and wired in I fired up the machine and ran through a series of tests involving I 264 Adobe Premiere GTA 5 black ops 3 and minecraft just you know for kicks I used MSI Afterburner for the most part to record the peak temperature of the cpu as it underwent each test and recorded the results in an Excel spreadsheet I then repeated the exact same test after installing the second stock cooler the solely aluminum one and yes that meant taking the entire tower back to the workbench removing the old thermal paste reinserting and rewiring the new cooler finally now these results are actually rather interesting let's see how things went down you I have to confess something upfront here when I handle both of these CPU coolers I notice that the skylight cooler was much lighter than it has well cooler and you're thinking well Greg dummy copper weighs more than aluminum so that makes sense the one with the copper slug would weigh more if they're both the same everywhere else but I also noticed the skylake aluminum fins or thinner than the ones on haswell's haswell's cooler and that's a little concerning to me it seems like they're cheeping out all around on their new coolers now obviously the 6600 K and the 6700 K do not come with coolers this Intel encourages you to use custom cooling in order to achieve fairly high overclocks with those overclockable CPUs but when it comes to their non K CPUs like the 6400 that I have here you're gonna you're gonna have a pretty cheap cooler actually cheaper than the has well based coolers it has well equivalents i recieved a cooler with a copper slug here in the 44 60 even though this one is not overclockable so for some reason Intel is just seeping out big-time I know why they're saving money so this is a bit disappointing because Intel assumes that you're going to be using the stock coolers for both of these CPUs in fact I wouldn't even recommend using a custom cooler on either of these because neither of them are going to get very hot even under full load so with that in mind it is a bit disappointing to see that the newer platform is using a much cheaper cooler that will yield higher temperatures as you've just seen and the tests that I ran in this video so with that in mind skylights still worth it now I know it seems like I've been bashing sky like a lot lately you know that the improvements from Haswell aren't substantial but in the case of the 6400 versity 4460 in particular both of which include intel coolers is it worth purchasing a newer CPU if you're going to if you're going to have I guess a cheaper cooler is what I'm trying to ask here because if you're going to purchase both of these coolers I'm assuming you're on a budget anyway and you're probably not going to want to spend more than twenty or thirty dollars on a custom CPU cooler so you probably just settle for the stock coolers it's just a bit disappointing to me to see that the new decline up is using cheaper coolers from Intel and I don't know if many people have been pointed this out I haven't seen much in regards to the cooler change they look exactly the same from the top with the fans on but underneath is a completely different story so with the extra temperature savings involved with Haswell CPUs should you forgo the 6,400 and take advantage of the 44 60 go ahead and check out this video here where I compare the i5 4460 to the i-5 6400 I also take into account the fact that one uses ddr3 and the other use of ddr4 and there still isn't much of a difference at all in any task the i5 6400 does improve a bit on video rendering and things of that sort but for gaming there they're pretty much going to be equal for the most part when it comes to gaming so if you are a gamer and you're considering either the CPUs and you want to have a cooler system I personally would recommend the 44 60 even though you're not going to have the newest and greatest it's gonna play games just fine and it will keep your entire computer a bit cooler at least that's what I was able to conclude from the test that I was able to run in the studio but I want to hear from you let me know in the comments if this is a big deal or not obviously if you're using a custom cooler this probably doesn't even apply to you at all so thank you for watching this far into the video but if you are using a stock cooler I want to hear from you especially let me know if knowing the fact that Haswell CPU coolers do have copper slugs would have been a game changer for you would you have considered Haswell a bit more than you had up front if you were choosing between something like the i-5 6400 and the i5 4460 if you liked the video and you like what we did and the content that you saw be sure to give us a thumbs up if you didn't for whatever reason give us a thumbs down and let me know in the comments below why you gave us a thumbs down be sure to subscribe if you haven't already because we do cool tests and things like this pretty much all the time this is science studio thanks for learning with this