The Art of Overclocking: A Desperate Attempt to Tame the Intel Stock Cooler

I'm moving up the CPU food chain a little bit to this, which is the 12 600k. This can overclock and draws a whole lot more power than the 12 400. Let's see what the stock cooler makes of this.

Oh, how's that for build quality? Look at that beautiful stock cooler. In order to minimize your bullying in the comment section, I'm going to blur the process of me removing the cooler from the CPU because I definitely didn't spend like 35 minutes struggling to get it off.

Yes, oh Intel, that's not a very convincing contact patch you have there. We're gonna remove the pathetic little 12-400 and we're gonna replace it with the Herculean 12 600k. So we've been playing Battlefield 5 for a while, and I've actually figured out that if you set the max frame rate to the monitor's refresh rate, you can actually get above 200 frames per second at 1080p.

And uh this is with the 12600k drawing about 90ish watts of power. And we're jumping around in the 80s so it's getting hotter. It's quite noisy. And uh it's struggling and another thing, the 12 600k is not running that fast and we're still getting quite high temperatures. So this is definitely not a good pairing at all. Um especially noise-wise.

Uh but you know it's handling it relatively fine although when moving over to Cinebench, the temperature is quickly sprinted to a hundred degrees Celsius which does not bode particularly well for our next CPU. I think instead of just overclocking the 12 600k, I think we should just step it up to the next level now.

Now we need to quickly mutilate our thumbs to swap out that pathetic 12600k for the big daddy. Oh no, it's already pegged at 100 degrees Celsius. We are seeing the core frequency drop because well, the 12 900k is drawing over 110 watts and that's just too much for the little Intel cooler.

Although like I've seen in previous videos where we had the 12 900k run at quite high temperatures it does tank like a chat. Like this. The 12 900k does not seem to mind. The core frequency is not doing amazing but we're pretty much pegged at 240 frames per second. It's not very stuttery at all.

And if I didn't have monitoring software up, I probably wouldn't have realized that our CPU is about to set fire to Indonesia. But I have an idea. Let's try something. Let's see what happens when we unshackle the CPU from motherboard-imposed temperature limit protection. It was sitting at 100 degrees before so let's see how far it lets us go.

I mean unfortunately, that's not as high as the 120C that an NZXD motherboard would let us go but that is higher. So let's let's see what happens with that. That feels really weird to do. See with the additional temperature headroom, the CPU keeps trying to stay at 4.9 oh 110 ah oh apparently the 12 900k does not like running at 110 degrees Celsius.

Okay so out of curiosity, I did a little bit of under-vaulting and well we're already at 100 degrees Celsius so I don't know if that's really helped much. The average core frequency does seem to be a little bit higher but interestingly at the same time we're also drawing more power so I guess it's running marginally better.

But we're still sitting cracked at 100 degrees Celsius so does it does it really matter? So we've learned a couple things today if you have an ambient temperature below 14 degrees Celsius and you don't have ears, I guess the new Intel stock cooler is not as bad as I was expecting.

And another thing we learned is that the 12 900k is worse than the 10900k because it refuses to run at a sustained 120 degrees Celsius. And with that, thank you for watching and until the next video bye.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday i'm going to use the newest member of the intel stock cooler family with plastic cod piece and all to abuse various 12th gen intel cpus but before then a quick word from today's video sponsor today's video is sponsored by thermaltake and their tower 100 series of itx cases that come in a fancy assortment of colors so that you can easily match it with your dog the tower 100 cases come with a button of ventilation so that your system doesn't have to run hot there's also plenty of space for a big gpu a tower cooler and even a normal atx power supply other than that you've got three tempered glass panels so you have like a display case with your little gaming pc in it which looks awesome if this looks good to you check out the thermal take tower 100 linked in the description below thank you thermaltake for sponsoring today's video now the new generation of intel stock cooler may look a lot better than the previous generation but in terms of actual cooling features they've only made minor upgrades the fin stack only looks slightly bigger than the previous generation although they did make a return to the copper contact puck in the center of the cooler which may help but still this is not a very good cpu cooler which makes it perfect for some cpu torture now how we're gonna go about our cpu drip torture for today is we're gonna start with a reasonable cpu pairing for the new intel stock cooler and then we're gonna slowly work our way up to the daddy of the range now i'm gonna use the build behind me here for these tests which is a build i did a couple videos back although there are a couple of small changes i need to make to it so that it'll work for our tests the first change i'm going to make is replace the rx 6600 xt with an rtx ti just so that the cpu has to work as hard as possible to keep up in gaming loads now considering that for the test we're gonna use the 3080ti i am gonna have to swap out the power supply in that intel build and i'm gonna use this absolute beefcake dark power that was sent over by be quiet i actually think this is the most badass power supply i've ever seen in the flesh it is 80 plus titanium rated which as we know brings all the boys to the yard and it just looks generally very badass so let's let's phone at it a little bit oh shiny nice now i didn't know this was something i wanted but look at the thumb screws that come with this power supply to mount it nice okay so with that very technical breakdown out of the way let's drop this bad boy into that system and start our testing now i've run into a bit of a weird problem with battlefield v the gpu is too powerful so at 1080p we kept running into the the engine limit of 200 frames per second which is also happening at 1440p this is with all ultra settings uh although the cpu is working harder so we do occasionally hit about 80 percent cpu utilization oh 90 which is very high for a gaming load um and with that we have in the mid 60s in terms of cpu temp uh depending on what's going on in the scene so aside from its characteristic how with a low ambient temperature it can kind of handle a 12-400 f while gaming interestingly the temperatures only got mildly worse with a more cpu intensive load like cinebench with that i think this is a good point to start abusing some bigger cpus now in order to more effectively emasculate the new intel stock cooler we're moving up the cpu food chain a little bit to this which is the 12 600k this can overclock and draws a whole lot more power than the 12 400 so let's see what the stock cooler makes of this oh how's that for build quality look at that beautiful now in order to minimize you bullying me in the comment section i'm going to blur the process of me removing the cooler from the cpu because i definitely didn't spend like 35 minutes struggling to get it off yes oh intel that's not a very convincing contact patch you have there we're gonna remove the pathetic little 12-400 and we're gonna replace it with the herculean 12 600k so we've been playing battlefield 5 for a while and i've actually figured out that if you set the max frame rate to the monitor this is refresh rate you can actually get above 200 frames per second at 1080p and uh this is with the 12600k drawing about 90ish watts of power and we're jumping around in the 80s so it's getting hotter it's quite noisy and uh it's struggling and another thing the 12 600k is not running that fast and we're still getting quite high temperatures so this is definitely not a good pairing at all um especially noise wise uh but you know it's it's handling it relatively fine although when moving over to cinebench the temperature is quickly sprinted to a hundred degrees celsius which does not bode particularly well for for our next cpu so i think instead of just overclocking the 12 600k i think we should just step it up to the next level now we need to quickly mutilate our thumbs to swap out that pathetic 12600k for the big daddy oh no it's already pegged at 100 degrees celsius we are seeing the core frequency drop because well the 12 900 k is drawing over 110 watts and that's just too much for the little intel cooler although like i've seen uh in previous videos where we had the 12 900k run at quite high temperatures it does tank it like a chat like this the 12 900k does not seem to mind the core frequency is not doing amazing but we're pretty much pegged at 240 frames per second it is not very stuttery at all and if i didn't have monitoring software up i probably wouldn't have realized that our cpu is about to set fire to indonesia but i have an idea let's try something let's see what happens when we unshackle the cpu from motherboard imposed temperature limit protection it was it was sitting at 100 degrees before so let's see how far it lets us go i mean unfortunately that's not as high as the 120c that an nzxd motherboard would let us go but that is higher so let's let's see what happens with that that feels really weird to do see with the additional temperature headroom the cpu keeps trying to stay at 4.9 oh 110 ah oh apparently the 12 900k does not like running at 110 degrees celsius okay so out of curiosity i did a little bit of under vaulting and well we're already at 100 degrees celsius so i don't know i don't know if that's really helped much the average core frequency does seem to be a little bit higher but interestingly at the same time we're also drawing more power so i guess it's running marginally better but we're still sitting cracked at 100 degrees celsius so does it does it really matter so we've learned a couple things today if you have an ambient temperature below 14 degrees celsius and you don't have ears i guess the new intel stock cooler is not as bad as i was expecting and another thing we learned is that the 12 900k is worse than the 10900k because it refuses to run at a sustained 120 degrees celsius and with that thank you for watching and until the next video bye youtoday i'm going to use the newest member of the intel stock cooler family with plastic cod piece and all to abuse various 12th gen intel cpus but before then a quick word from today's video sponsor today's video is sponsored by thermaltake and their tower 100 series of itx cases that come in a fancy assortment of colors so that you can easily match it with your dog the tower 100 cases come with a button of ventilation so that your system doesn't have to run hot there's also plenty of space for a big gpu a tower cooler and even a normal atx power supply other than that you've got three tempered glass panels so you have like a display case with your little gaming pc in it which looks awesome if this looks good to you check out the thermal take tower 100 linked in the description below thank you thermaltake for sponsoring today's video now the new generation of intel stock cooler may look a lot better than the previous generation but in terms of actual cooling features they've only made minor upgrades the fin stack only looks slightly bigger than the previous generation although they did make a return to the copper contact puck in the center of the cooler which may help but still this is not a very good cpu cooler which makes it perfect for some cpu torture now how we're gonna go about our cpu drip torture for today is we're gonna start with a reasonable cpu pairing for the new intel stock cooler and then we're gonna slowly work our way up to the daddy of the range now i'm gonna use the build behind me here for these tests which is a build i did a couple videos back although there are a couple of small changes i need to make to it so that it'll work for our tests the first change i'm going to make is replace the rx 6600 xt with an rtx ti just so that the cpu has to work as hard as possible to keep up in gaming loads now considering that for the test we're gonna use the 3080ti i am gonna have to swap out the power supply in that intel build and i'm gonna use this absolute beefcake dark power that was sent over by be quiet i actually think this is the most badass power supply i've ever seen in the flesh it is 80 plus titanium rated which as we know brings all the boys to the yard and it just looks generally very badass so let's let's phone at it a little bit oh shiny nice now i didn't know this was something i wanted but look at the thumb screws that come with this power supply to mount it nice okay so with that very technical breakdown out of the way let's drop this bad boy into that system and start our testing now i've run into a bit of a weird problem with battlefield v the gpu is too powerful so at 1080p we kept running into the the engine limit of 200 frames per second which is also happening at 1440p this is with all ultra settings uh although the cpu is working harder so we do occasionally hit about 80 percent cpu utilization oh 90 which is very high for a gaming load um and with that we have in the mid 60s in terms of cpu temp uh depending on what's going on in the scene so aside from its characteristic how with a low ambient temperature it can kind of handle a 12-400 f while gaming interestingly the temperatures only got mildly worse with a more cpu intensive load like cinebench with that i think this is a good point to start abusing some bigger cpus now in order to more effectively emasculate the new intel stock cooler we're moving up the cpu food chain a little bit to this which is the 12 600k this can overclock and draws a whole lot more power than the 12 400 so let's see what the stock cooler makes of this oh how's that for build quality look at that beautiful now in order to minimize you bullying me in the comment section i'm going to blur the process of me removing the cooler from the cpu because i definitely didn't spend like 35 minutes struggling to get it off yes oh intel that's not a very convincing contact patch you have there we're gonna remove the pathetic little 12-400 and we're gonna replace it with the herculean 12 600k so we've been playing battlefield 5 for a while and i've actually figured out that if you set the max frame rate to the monitor this is refresh rate you can actually get above 200 frames per second at 1080p and uh this is with the 12600k drawing about 90ish watts of power and we're jumping around in the 80s so it's getting hotter it's quite noisy and uh it's struggling and another thing the 12 600k is not running that fast and we're still getting quite high temperatures so this is definitely not a good pairing at all um especially noise wise uh but you know it's it's handling it relatively fine although when moving over to cinebench the temperature is quickly sprinted to a hundred degrees celsius which does not bode particularly well for for our next cpu so i think instead of just overclocking the 12 600k i think we should just step it up to the next level now we need to quickly mutilate our thumbs to swap out that pathetic 12600k for the big daddy oh no it's already pegged at 100 degrees celsius we are seeing the core frequency drop because well the 12 900 k is drawing over 110 watts and that's just too much for the little intel cooler although like i've seen uh in previous videos where we had the 12 900k run at quite high temperatures it does tank it like a chat like this the 12 900k does not seem to mind the core frequency is not doing amazing but we're pretty much pegged at 240 frames per second it is not very stuttery at all and if i didn't have monitoring software up i probably wouldn't have realized that our cpu is about to set fire to indonesia but i have an idea let's try something let's see what happens when we unshackle the cpu from motherboard imposed temperature limit protection it was it was sitting at 100 degrees before so let's see how far it lets us go i mean unfortunately that's not as high as the 120c that an nzxd motherboard would let us go but that is higher so let's let's see what happens with that that feels really weird to do see with the additional temperature headroom the cpu keeps trying to stay at 4.9 oh 110 ah oh apparently the 12 900k does not like running at 110 degrees celsius okay so out of curiosity i did a little bit of under vaulting and well we're already at 100 degrees celsius so i don't know i don't know if that's really helped much the average core frequency does seem to be a little bit higher but interestingly at the same time we're also drawing more power so i guess it's running marginally better but we're still sitting cracked at 100 degrees celsius so does it does it really matter so we've learned a couple things today if you have an ambient temperature below 14 degrees celsius and you don't have ears i guess the new intel stock cooler is not as bad as i was expecting and another thing we learned is that the 12 900k is worse than the 10900k because it refuses to run at a sustained 120 degrees celsius and with that thank you for watching and until the next video 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