Intel RM1 Stock Cooler Tested with Core i5-12400 Reaching 73°C

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The Intel Laminar RM1 stock cooler has recently been tested with the Core i5-12400 by Chinese news site 163. The RM1 will be included with the upcoming Intel 12th Generation Core 65 W Core i3, i5, and i7 processors including the i5-12400. This mid-tier cooler positioned underneath the Laminar RH1 doesn't feature LED illumination instead opting for a blue colored ring. The cooler was tested by running the AIDA64 FPU stress test for 8 minutes where the i5-12400 reached a maximum reported temperature of 73°C with an average of 70°C. The processor drew a peak of 89 W with an average of 81 W while the RM1 fan reached a speed of 3100 RPM which was described as audible by the tester. The Intel Laminar stock coolers will be announced alongside the new 12th Generation Alder Lake-S desktop processors on January 4th.



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[FreedomEclipse]

That's actually not too bad considering it's cooling 6 cores

 

[R-T-B]

I miss the days Intel made real stock tower coolers... LGA1366. They weren't half bad, IIRC.

 

[caroline!]

I miss the days Intel made real stock tower coolers... LGA1366. They weren't half bad, IIRC.

The one included with the 980X was something else, always loved that design, neat performance as well

 

[R-T-B]

The one included with the 980X was something else, always loved that design, neat performance as well

Yep that's precisely what I was thinking of.

 

[AlwaysHope]

No mention of TIM they used?

 

[djuice]

This is in an open case environment, I would imagine that it would get extremely hot while inside an non-airflow case, while it's recirculating all that hot air around itself.

 

[Crackong]

Finally they had to put the copper core back in there

 

[Rivage]

looks as video card cooler 15 years ago

 

[thesmokingman]

looks as video card cooler 15 years ago

What was once old is new again. Those Orbs ... right?

Anyways, that's a decent showing for a stock cooler.

 

[R-T-B]

No mention of TIM they used?

Intel has a love affair with that dow corning stuff, so likely that.

 

[Darksword]

I think I had one of those cooling the chipset on my KT7A-RAID board back in the day. Good times.

 

[AlwaysHope]

Intel has a love affair with that dow corning stuff, so likely that.

Ok, but in the pics all we see is the HS underside & nothing there.

 

[ratirt]

89W peak with 73c with an open case? Hmm I'm a bit skeptic about it to be fair.

 

[R-T-B]

Ok, but in the pics all we see is the HS underside & nothing there.

On LGA1366 tower coolers it used to come in a tube for you to put on.

Fun fact, the stuff was bad even IN A SEALED TUBE. It would turn to pure powder in about 2 years.

 

[AlwaysHope]

On LGA1366 tower coolers it used to come in a tube for you to put on.

Fun fact, the stuff was bad even IN A SEALED TUBE. It would turn to pure powder in about 2 years.

Yeah, but didn't they realise enthusiast would get their own after market TIM, still I suppose they had to create value with it.
When that platform came out, I was asking myself why need triple channel memory all those yrs ago?
It certainly didn't benefit gaming in that era.
Hence why I went with LGA1156 instead back then.

 

[john_]

Not bad, I was expecting worst from that joke.

Having said that, max power consumption on HWinfo does not pass 89W.

 

[Caring1]

I don't get why they don't just make the one type of cooler and just stick the top tier cooler on all CPUs.
It would have saved them some dollars.

 

[Keullo-e]

I miss the days Intel made real stock tower coolers... LGA1366. They weren't half bad, IIRC.

Also the old-school beefy stock heatsinks from LGA775 & 1366 were usable for some overclocking. Of course you couldn't pull the maximum usable overclocks with those, but they were at least usable.

Finally they had to put the copper core back in there

I remember some invidual CPUs come with copper-core stock coolers. Even the unlocked dual-core Pentium G3258 came with one.

What was once old is new again. Those Orbs ... right?

Anyways, that's a decent showing for a stock cooler.

Thermaltake had the Orb lineup

 

[Caring1]

Deepcool has been making similar coolers for ages.
Seems Intel copied them.

 

[s3thra]

Reminds me of the old Prescott Pentium 4 hitting high 70s degrees C under load back in the day. Toasty.

 

[docnorth]

Until now there are 2 different 12400 versions tested, one based on a cut-down big node (like a 12600K without E-cores), the other based on the smaller node. The latter might consume slightly less, although it could be the opposite - the leak from chiphell is unclear. Anyway the medium stock cooler seems to be good enough for the 12400, let's hope it comes with metal screws.

I miss the days Intel made real stock tower coolers... LGA1366. They weren't half bad, IIRC.

Yes, even my old i5-2400 came with a Coolermaster cooler in a prebuilt HP Elite office PC. Still on duty.

This is in an open case environment, I would imagine that it would get extremely hot while inside an non-airflow case, while it's recirculating all that hot air around itself.

Actually most cases have a specific airflow, even weak, which is usually better than the open case shown here. A few weeks ago the son of a friendly couple showed me the micro PC he was given for work with a i5-10500. It's probably a 10500T (I didn't ask) which has a peak power draw of 93w(!) and runs cool and quiet inside that tiny box.

 

[Space Lynx]

This is in an open case environment, I would imagine that it would get extremely hot while inside an non-airflow case, while it's recirculating all that hot air around itself.

nice catch, I didn't realize this. an open airflow design would alter the numbers some. from my experience of testing.

 

[Sabotaged_Enigma]

Intel's previous stock cooler even looks pretty compared to this new design...

 

[caroline!]

The fake plastic fins are the last nail on the coffin for post-1155 intel stock HSF, at that point they shouldn't even include it with the CPU because the customer will have to get a better solution anyway.