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They are made to be good enough without costing a lot (some Noctua coolers are more expensive than a whole CPU) and usually address only the lower-level enduser
by miahi 5y ago
They are made to be good enough without costing a lot (some Noctua coolers are more expensive than a whole CPU) and usually address only the lower-level enduser market, where a difference of $5 can be an important percentage of the price. But they did evolve. At least for low-power CPUs the Intel stock coolers are not noisy and work well. The AMD Wraith coolers are on par with some of the good 3rd party coolers.
- zinekeller 5y agoThis is the correct answer. Often, Intel and AMD actually partners the design to someone else (probably Delta (Electronics, not the airline!), Foxconn, or Nidec) then the partner knocks down the design for three things a) cheap, b) reliable and c) meets the minimum power dissipation requirements. Acoustic performance is an afterthought if it's even considered (most of the time it isn't).