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Why are Intel stock cooler so poor

Well, the only people who care about cooling performance are overclockers and enthusiasts such as ourselves and we like to choose our own coolers tailored to our needs.

The requirements for CPU cooling are much lower for the vast majority of users and it's fine for them as they will never go beyond the thermal capacity of the cooler.

Even looking at the K versions, I've always seen HS&F bundles as temporary solutions on the off chance it's needed.
 
elmarko said:
Really there is no excuse, a stock cooler should be able to keep a CPU cool enough at stock speeds (That includes the higher end CPU's) a few extra $$$ it would make sense, just a higher grade stock cooler - like many GPU's offer on top end cards.
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"Cool enough" is so vague, because from Intel's perspective, their coolers DO keep them cool "enough" so that they don't throttle and are within the thermal specification.
 
Geffen said:
I've just moved from a FX6300 to a intel I5 4680K and surprised how poor intel stock cooler is. I was able to keep the AMD processor cool and quite at stock even though it has higher energy usage and I'd modded the fan to a lower voltage. Meanwhile the intel cooler seems to be struggling, at load, to keep the CPU temperature under control even at stock speed, and it makes a racket when doing this.

Glad I've order a new heatsink.
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From Skylake onwards, Intel -K CPU's won't ship with the stock HSF anymore, removing this problem :)
 
Geffen said:
I've just moved from a FX6300 to a intel I5 4680K and surprised how poor intel stock cooler is. I was able to keep the AMD processor cool and quite at stock even though it has higher energy usage and I'd modded the fan to a lower voltage. Meanwhile the intel cooler seems to be struggling, at load, to keep the CPU temperature under control even at stock speed, and it makes a racket when doing this.

Glad I've order a new heatsink.
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What do you mean by "struggling to keep the processor cool"? Did it overheat? Did it ever hit the highest temp listed in the specs? If not then it's doing it's job on a non-overclocked processor. Must admit should be a bit quieter though if it is indeed quite noisy.
 
Money and by default it should do the job.

Cheap cooler included would mean that i can use that till i find out which is the better cooler which would fit my needs and i wouldnt have to pay a lot to get the cpu i want. I like the idea of having a cooler as an option, in the end you also have the option to buy the cpu without a cooler but the price is hardly any different and you have a lower warranty i think- or at least this used to be the case in the past. In a perfect world you would have it bundled with the hundreds of different cooler options there are out there but i dont know how feasible it is from Intel's point of view.
 
Stock cooler is for just that running a cpu at stock speed.

When you OC you should have a better cooler installed.
 
I don't care that the cooler is poop tbh as I'd like them to sell me the chip cheaper and let me choose what I cool it with. I kinda want the same to happen with GPU' also.
 
MasterOC said:
Buy OEM then , cheaper and no cooler
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They do OEM chips without a cooler to cover the exact market you're all whining about.

And as for those beefing about warranty; When was the last time you heard of a chip, Intel or otherwise, failing, which a user had to RMA?

As for price, they ain't cheaper because there's no competition.

Cry me a river until Zen comes along.
 
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