Intel Slightly Upgrades Stock Coolers for Some of its Higher 10th Gen Core and Xeon-W

[hurakura]

95W cooler for a 200+W cpu. slight upgrade

 

[londiste]

This is just plain pathetic. If a reality existed where the Wraith Spire was socket cross-compatible, it would completely cuck this thing, and the Max/Prism would cuck the TS15A too.

AMD bundles Wraith Stealth with 65W CPUs.

 

[Outback Bronze]

lol cooler for an i9...

 

[Elysium]

AMD bundles Wraith Stealth with 65W CPUs.

The highest-perf chip in the Stealth stack is the 3600; that and everything below it actually is a 65W chip. Does that puny thing in the images look like it could adequately cool a 10-core chip? Heck, does it even look like it could cool 95W? Maybe at 2000RPM all the time...

I wouldn't put that thing on a 3300X, let alone an i9.

 

[londiste]

The highest-perf chip in the Stealth stack is the 3600; that and everything below it actually is a 65W chip. Does that puny thing in the images look like it could adequately cool a 10-core chip? Heck, does it even look like it could cool 95W? Maybe at 2000RPM all the time...

I wouldn't put that thing on a 3300X, let alone an i9.

3600 runs at 88W power limit.
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?

 

[Caring1]

Maybe it will spin faster.

They would have to paint it red first.

 

[Chrispy_]

So they've made it less ugly but it's still the same pathetic heatsink.

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:

 

[Elysium]

3600 runs at 88W power limit.
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?

That's a deep upper load limit for the 3600 though and it's rarely going to shoot through the TDP roof unless the user has altered voltage and clock settings. You make a good note about previous gens shipping with the same cooler but that's just the same old bad Intel behaviour we've come to know and love. It's also worth mentioning that previous mainstream gens have never had a 10-core chip; what happens when those cores inevitably go past 2.8GHz? I don't think even 2000RPM will cut it on this cooler.

 

[KarymidoN]

lets see... the competition has a decent box cooler that can keep the processor under standard boost conditions.
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.