Der8auer Tries Out Intel’s TEC Cooler on an AMD Ryzen 9

Der8auer has picked up Intel’s newest TEC cooler, constructed along side EKWB, and unceremoniously plopped it proper into an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU. Well, not fully unceremoniously – there have been many lodging that needed to be made in an effort to obtain this. For one, as it is a answer designed particularly for Intel CPUs and sockets, Der8auer needed to Frankenstein his manner by means of numerous cooling components to have the ability to adapt the TEC answer to the AM4 socket. Not solely that, however Intel’s TEC requires deep software program management for it to work correctly – software program management which solely works with Intel silicon, in fact. Der8auer thus needed to have a second machine operating an Intel 10900Okay CPU to manage the software program on the Intel cryo cooler.

All in all, the outcomes have been fascinating, to say the least. The 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 5950X noticed single-core-load CCD temperatures within the 90 °C division with the TEC answer disabled – which promptly dropped all the way down to solely 50 °C with the cryo cooler truly working. With a recreation load, the 5959X achieved as much as 5.050 GHz in single-cores on its computerized enhance profile. The total chip usually boosted to 4.8 – 4.9 GHz on all cores without delay (with variances between the CCDs) while underneath this cooling answer and workload. With the TEC working in its unregulated mode – which suggests, with no issues for CPU working temperature and energy utilization for the cooling course of – noticed the Ryzen 9 5950X reaching 2 °C core temperature outcomes, and boosted frequencies as much as a staggering 5323 MHz on all cores – earlier than crashing. An fascinating piece of labor which you catch on video after the break; one can relaxation assured that almost all PC cooling specialists are already engaged on their very own TEC-based cooling options following Intel’s achievement on this discipline.