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Intel has stopped producing it RS1 laminar The stock cooler, which was previously the lowest-end model among the company’s three stock coolers.
It was introduced in 2021 alongside the 12th generation Alder Lake CPUsThe RS1 uses an all-aluminum design with a plastic housing that is just 47mm long and weighs around 260g. It’s essentially an upgraded version of Intel’s old stock cooler, with a more optimized heatsink and a larger five-blade fan, and is rated to cool 65W chips.
Intel also has two other coolers, the RH1 and RM1. The RM1 is almost identical to the RS1, except that it has a copper alloy on the bottom for better heat transfer, as well as an LED light bar surrounding the fan. Like the now discontinued RS1, the RM1 is also rated at 65 watts. Meanwhile, the RH1 is a completely different design, being taller, using more copper, and a more premium metal shroud.
The RS1 only shipped with two dual-core CPUs: Pentium Gold G7400 and Celeron G6900. Although Intel’s weakest stock cooler isn’t particularly powerful, it has no difficulty cooling the G7400 or G6900 since they both have a TDP of just 46W.
This is probably one of the main reasons why it stopped. It’s hard to justify building a stock cooler for just two CPUs, let alone dual-core Pentiums and Celerons, which haven’t been very popular lately.
Intel says the RS1 will not have a direct successor, but will be replaced by the RM1. Simplifying its stock cooler offerings may also be another motivation for Intel to ditch its all-aluminum cooler since the RS1 and RM1 are almost identical. RM1 is already used in the vast majority of locked Intel CPUs, everything from the Core i3s and Core i7s in the 12th, 13th, and 14th generations.
RM1 is also used for Intel 300 processor, a renamed Pentium G7400. The 300 processor was introduced almost a year ago, and the fact that it used RM1 was perhaps a sign that the RS1 wasn’t long for this world.
