The 11400F CPU Cooler: A Comprehensive Review

In this article, we will delve into the world of CPU coolers and explore one of the most popular options available for the Intel Core i5-11400F processor. The cooler in question is the All Black CPU Cooler, which is a part of the Intel's 600 series lineup. Our testing has shown that this cooler can handle high temperatures without throttling, making it an excellent choice for enthusiasts and gamers alike.

Throttling Issues: A Concern Worth Addressing

One of the main concerns with the 11400F processor is its potential to throttle due to overheating issues. However, our testing has revealed that this issue is not a result of the cooler itself but rather the motherboard and boost limits in place. If you're looking at throttling on the 11400F, it's mainly due to the motherboard and the boost limits inplace, especially if there's a 65 watt limit in place.

Removing the Throttle Limit: A Solution

To remove the throttle limit, we had to disable the tau feature and up the manual settings to 100 watts. This seemed to alleviate the problem, even though the Z590 motherboard would get slightly higher performance due to its ability to boost over just over 100 watts. However, this will only mainly be limited to Cinebench for example where you're using the AVX-2 instruction sets and it will slightly boost higher than 100 watts momentarily.

Cooler Performance: A Closer Look

The All Black CPU Cooler is a well-designed cooler that handles high temperatures without any issues. One thing we noticed was that there were no thermal constraints put in place in terms of our testing setup, which used an open-air testbed with a temperature of 25 degrees ambience. If you have a case that's very limited in airflow, this could be a possible scenario.

A Possible Trade-Off: Noise Levels

Intel has seemingly upped the fan speeds at the cost of noise levels. However, when we compare the noise levels to other fans used in today's comparison, we feel that they've used a cheaper fan than previous generations. Considering the price of the 11400F and the fact that it comes with this cooler in the box, we don't think this is a bad thing.

The 11400F: A Shining Gem

In today's market where things are inflating at crazy prices, the 11400F is actually a shining gem that should be considered especially if you're on a budget. The CPU itself is an excellent choice for gaming and content creation, and with the All Black Cooler, it's a match made in heaven.

A Question of Customer Loyalty

The article raises questions about customer loyalty and how Intel can improve their products to better serve their customers. With the current state of things, where people are buying Intel CPUs because they're used to them, it's essential for Intel to take a closer look at customer loyalty and realize that they need to do better.

A CPU Cooler Showdown: The Race Stealth

In our previous video, we compared the All Black Cooler with the Race Stealth Cooler. While the Race Stealth is an excellent cooler, we feel that the All Black Cooler is the winner due to its quieter noise profile out of the box. If you're looking for a cooler that won't disturb your gaming sessions or work sessions, the All Black Cooler is the way to go.

A Question of RAM Speed

The article also raises a question about RAM speed and how it depends on PCB thickness. The author agrees with Crash Test Dummy's sentiment that Intel should unlock everything already and give customers more value for money. With the 11th gen chips, there's no reason why Intel shouldn't remove these limits, especially since the H510 motherboard is already capable of handling higher RAM speeds.

The Importance of Customer Loyalty

Finally, the article emphasizes the importance of customer loyalty and how it can make or break a brand. As an Intel fanboy myself, I agree that they need to take a closer look at customer loyalty and realize that their current approach is not working. With the right strategy, Intel can regain their customer's trust and become synonymous with customer loyalty.

Conclusion

In conclusion, our testing has shown that the All Black CPU Cooler is a well-designed cooler that handles high temperatures without any issues. While there are some trade-offs, such as noise levels, we don't think this is a bad thing considering the price of the 11400F and the fact that it comes with this cooler in the box.

As for the 11400F processor itself, it's an excellent choice for gaming and content creation. However, Intel needs to take a closer look at customer loyalty and realize that they need to do better. With the right strategy, Intel can regain their customers' trust and become synonymous with customer loyalty.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back to tech yes city and todaywe have a stock out of the box cooler comparison herebetween intel and amd and this isbrought about by intelwell at least what they're claiming istheir new included box coolerwhich they decided to start introducingwith the 10th generation i7and i9 non-k processors but have sinceincluded it nowwith the i5 lineup and that being ofcourse the most important cpu in their11th gen lineupthe 11400f however this cooler righthere even though intelclaims it's new the only thing i'mseeing new about thisis literally the paint job where they'vemade it black and they've changed thelogoto gray instead of putting a sticker onso this thing here weighs in at 223grams and ironically enough the oldercooler right here from second and thirdgenintel cpus which was included with theiri5 and i7 productssay for instance an i5 2400 this oneweighed in at 226 grams and it also hasthe copper slug in the middle so verysimilari don't think intel have done anythingnew here but looking back throughintel's history ofbox coolers they actually used to giveyou a lot more coolerincluded in the box this here being oneof the old-school generationx58 stock coolers it has a differentsocket mounting mechanismbut they also included similar sizes tothis cooler right herein things like x79 and also lga 775processors but after what some wouldconsider the golden days of cpuevolutionintel then decided to cut costs and wewent down to this 220 ram cooler righthere and then subsequently even on i3sand lower power consumption cpus theyeven dropped in a 170 gram coolerwithout even having the copper slug inthe middle solooks like we've gone through this downcurve and now we're on the way up alittle bitbut some say this wouldn't have beenpossible without the introductionof amd's ryzen and their box coolerswhere i'm holding here the race stealthand we're also gonna be testing out thewraithprism and i'll put the weights and specsof these cpu coolersup on the screen here for you guys butwhat we're going to be doing here todayis we're going to be checking twodifferent levels of power consumptionand that is 65 watts and 100 watts andwe're gonna have a cooler box cooleraround robinto see the noises and temperatures ofthese cpusso let's get on with the show if youwant to get rid of this annoyingactivate windows message then today'svideo sponsorscdkeys has you covered for as little as12 usdollars after you enter that coupon codebftycyou can cop yourself a legit single enduser license todaylinks in description below so afterbeginning the test between the amdand intel coolers i realized this wasnot going to work properly unless i hadthe same base constantand in this case that was using theintel cpu but we had the problemof mounting the coolers that wouldn'tfit properly on the intel cpu namelythe ryzen cpu coolers so i decided to doa cool experimentwhere we're now using the intel extremetuning utilitywhich has the option to manually setyour power limits on the cpuso this can give us an apples-to-applescomparison between the actual powerbeing output by the cpuand the temperatures incurred by the cpucooler however since the cpu we areusing in today's comparison is the11400fit does have two different states thatit likes to switch betweenthe 65 watt state and also the 100 wattstate the 100 watt state is pretty mucharound the max level of performancefor the 4.2 gigahertz all core whenwe're running a test like cinebench r20for examplehowever when we're gaming this cpu cango up to 75 wattsand we will talk about this more in anupcoming video but we've also talkedabout in the h510 video that we recentlydid where i'll putthe link to that video up here howeverfor what it is worth the 65 watt limitwill remain on some h510s especiallyand possibly even some b560 motherboardsso it is important in my opinion to testall today's coolersat these two different wattage settingshowever let the test beginand let's get you guys some numbersso now the testing is finished you mayhave a question before going into theseresults and that is how do you get aryzen cpu cooler to mount on an intelcpu socket that is the lga 1200 and eventhe lgaold-school cooler to mount in thissocket even though the coolers won't fitand the answer to this is i actuallyjust applied careful pressureon the cpu and the cooler itself andthat gave usaccurate results where we tested it 25degrees ambient temperaturesand what we'll see with the results iswe'll pull the 100 watt results up firstand here we saw that the raised prismwas doing a fantasticjob on the temperatures though i haveincluded the noise levelsbecause it is important to note that thefans out of the box will spinat different levels and of courseinherent to the fan that's been usedon the cooler itself you will getdifferent noiseeven if you have the same rpm justbecause there's different fans beingusedon the coolers themselves but what we'reseeing move over to the race stealthis that's a very quiet cooler even atthis 100 wattlevel where it goes up to 88 degrees butit did getsome of the lowest noise in today'scomparisonhowever looking at the previousgeneration 170 gram coolerthat maxed out at 33 decibels so it wasextremely quietbut unfortunately it did start thermalthrottling at 100 wattshowever looking at the black cooler alittle bit more in depth we can see thatit does beat outthe second and third gen cooler thatdoes have similar weightand also has the copper slug beaded outby about six degreesbut this was coming in with a much lowernoise level of 42 decibels versus 50decibelsthough even more impressive was the ogcooler the bigintel stock cooler that they've includedwith older generation cpusand that was giving out 38 decibels sobeat out both the second gen and alsothe new black coolerquite substantially when we look at itfrom a noise and temperature perspectiveif what it's worth i thought the racestealth was actually winning thiscomparison believe it or notbeing that it had a really low noiselevel and the temperatures were stillabsolutely fine although the 88 degreesmay seem a little bit hot it's actuallyfine where it's still got another 12degrees until it starts thermalthrottling and as long as you keep itunder that levelit's still going to perform at itsmaximum performance level it also didthrow on an h159irgb platinum just for reference to seehow goodwater cooling can get although it iskind of irrelevant in this case becausethe water cooler itself will cost morethan the cpuin questions though it does prove onething that is the statement pay to winis true indeed they're stepping thingsdown to 65watts which is a limit imposed on someh510 motherboardsalso if you're using older cpus like the10400fthis will be a relevant comparison evenwhen we look at something like the ryzen5 3600that i believe will use around 45 wattswhen it comes toplaying games so any of these coolershere in today's comparisonwill do a fine job of keeping thetemperatures under controleven the 170 gram cooler came in at 33decibels and went up to 91 degreesso that was the quietest of the bunchand then from here we can see that theblack cooler came in with a decenttemperature level but it was stillrunningat the loudest of all the coolers intoday's comparisonso the noise levels did concern me a bitabout this new intel cooler to the pointwhere 50 decibels might annoy peoplebecause it is quite a loud noisecoming out of this cooler whereas welook at the wraith stealth that did aphenomenal job of handlingthe temperatures at around 70 degreesbut also coming in with 34 decibels ofnoise then the race prism ended updropping the noise levels down furtherfrom the 100 watt levelbut also dropped the temperatures down 7degrees and the ogintel cooler came out here with amassive wind of 62 degreesand still maintaining some veryimpressive noise levels now the previoussecond gen cooler in my opiniongot even though it got five degreeshotter it did maintainmuch lower noise levels than that of theall black cooler so after analyzingthose resultsi can conclude that the old black coolerhere from intelis not doing that good of a jobwhen it comes to especially keeping thenoise levels down those noise levelswere actually quite bad but thetemperatures were okay they weremediocrei would say if anything the race stealthdid a much better jobbecause i could barely hear it when itcame to the actual noise levelsand looking even back at the second andthird gen cooler and then even thelightweight 170 gram cooler those didmuch better in terms of noise levelshowever there were reports coming inpeople were saying okay brian the allblack coolerdoes throttle the 11400f i didn't seeany throttling due to the cooler itselfif you're looking at throttling on the11400fthat would be mainly due to themotherboard and the boost limits inplace especially if there's a 65 wattlimit in placeyou do have to make sure that you removethat and the only way i found to removethaton the h510 motherboard was to disablethat tauand then up the manual settings to 100watts and that seemed to alleviate theproblem even thoughif you have a z590 for example you willget slightly higher performancebecause it will boost over just over 100wattsbut this will only mainly be limited tocinebench for example where you're usingthe avx-2 instruction setsand it will slightly boost higher than100 watts momentarily so you'll probablysee that you will get slightly higherresults on the z590 than an h510especially if that h510 motherboard oreven a b560 has a 100 watt limit inplace it's not actually the fault ofthis cooler this cooler will even handle108 watts and do a fine job without thecputhrottling itself one thing i did noticewas that there was no thermalconstraintsput in place in terms of our testingsetup we just used an open-air testbed25 degrees ambience so if you do have acase that is very limited in airflowwhichi believe would be a possible scenariobecause a lot of peoplebuying the 11400f combo especially ifthey're using h510i'm probably going to cheap out on thecase but one thing i'll say is if you'regoing to cheap out on the casejust make sure you leave a side paneloff that's one thing to keep in mind butback to the all black cooler i feel asif intelhave upped the fan speeds at the cost ofnoise but also when we lookat the noise levels compared to theother fans used in today's comparisoni feel as if they've used a cheaper fanthan previous generationshowever considering the price of the11400f and considering you get this inthe box and it does look a lot betteri don't think it's a bad thing the11400f especially in today's marketwhere things are inflating at crazyprices i'd say the 11400fis actually a shining gem that should beconsidered especially if you are on abudgetbut for what it's worth if i had thechoice between both these cpu coolersthe race stealth and the all blacki'd pick the race stealth just due tohaving a much quieter noise profile outof the box and the thing is i decided totest the out of the boxprofiles because if you're buying thecpus and using the respective cpucoolersthat's what you're going to get out ofthe box anyway guys with that aside ihope you enjoyed today's videoif you did then be sure to hit that likebutton for us also let us knowin the comment section below did youenjoy the cpu cooler showdownor if you didn't just let us know too imean i always like feedbackjust like this question of the day herewhich comes from crash test dummyand they ask now ram speed depends onpcbthickness wtf intel just unlockeverything alreadyand my sentiments with this is the exactsame as crash test dummyi think intel just need to stop doingthese kind of little things wherethey'vebasically implemented a limit on h510motherboards whereif the manufacturer only uses a fourlayer pcb there's a limit of 2933megahertz as opposed to a six layer pcbthere's a 3200 megahertzmemory limit on the 11th gen chips nowthe 10th gen chips they've still got atleast from the h510 tesla didthey've still got a 2666 limit sothere's no reason for intel toput these limits in place just unlockthem alreadyand give people more value for money idon't think it's a hard thing to dosince the person's already invested inintel you should be grateful thatthey've gonefor an intel cpu motherboard and not anamd cpu on motherboard i mean for inteland the marketing reps out there theyreally need to take a look at customerloyaltyand realize at the moment with intelit's the antonymof customer loyalty so you guys need tomake your brand namesynonymous with customer loyalty andthat means you're doingthe best by the customer but hey whatwould i know i'm just a dudepulling clips off an amd race stealthcooler and with that aside if you guyshave stayed this farbe sure to hit that sub button ring thatbell and i'll catch you in another juicytech video very soonpeace out for now byewe are going to have to askif we want to live\n"