Wednesday, May 27th 2020
Intel Slightly Upgrades Stock Coolers for Some of its Higher 10th Gen Core and Xeon-W
Intel is packing a slightly improved stock heatsink-fan (HSF) cooling solution with some of its higher-end 10th generation Core desktop and select Xeon-W processors. The cooler, while nowhere close in size or weight to the TS15A, features a slightly thicker heatsink with a copper core, compared to the one included with lower-end parts such as the i5-10400. This heatsink's primary material is black anodized aluminium, with a copper core. The fan's cable is now black sleeved, instead of being a loose bunch of four ketchup-and-mustard wires. The hub of the fan, which usually had a white or blue label with ugly regulatory markings, now has a solid grey sticker with just the Intel logo.
There are no performance numbers, but the cooler looks physically similar to the copper core coolers Intel used to include with some of its oldest LGA115x processors, such as "Lynnfield" and " Sandy Bridge," capable of handling 95 W TDP. Intel is including the cooler with the Core i9-10900, the i9-10900F, i7-10700F, i7-10700; and Xeon W-1290, W-1270, and W-1250 boxed processors in the DIY retail channel.
Sources:
NguyencongPC, ChipHell Forums, Tom's Hardware
There are no performance numbers, but the cooler looks physically similar to the copper core coolers Intel used to include with some of its oldest LGA115x processors, such as "Lynnfield" and " Sandy Bridge," capable of handling 95 W TDP. Intel is including the cooler with the Core i9-10900, the i9-10900F, i7-10700F, i7-10700; and Xeon W-1290, W-1270, and W-1250 boxed processors in the DIY retail channel.
33 Comments on Intel Slightly Upgrades Stock Coolers for Some of its Higher 10th Gen Core and Xeon-W
I wouldn't put that thing on a 3300X, let alone an i9.
Based on previous generations of Intel CPUs all the Intel CPUs shipping with this cooler have a long-term 65W power limit (with higher power limit for a short time).
10 cores at 2.8GHz, why not?
For these ~160W chips we need the old Socket 775 coolers - basically the exact same design it has been for a decade, but tall enough to actually cool something for a change.
Were these good? No, but what actually mattered is that they weren't so bad that CPUs would throttle, something the current coolers haven't managed since Sandy Bridge.
Also, I laughed at this which is trending on r/AMD:
Intel Box cooler can't even manage to push their processor to the advised boost speeds (thats why they used "UP TO*" on their marketing material.