News Intel discontinues its weakest stock cooler – RS1 Laminar cooler was only used for the Pentium G7400 and Celeron G6900

[Admin]

The all-aluminum Laminar RS1 stock cooler is no more as Intel discontinued it in late December, replacing it with the already existing Laminar RM1.

Intel discontinues its weakest stock cooler – RS1 Laminar cooler was only used for the Pentium G7400 and Celeron G6900 : Read more

 

[jlake3]

Huh. Did they maybe expect to launch more low-end models? I think the last-gen cooler they gave some of the i3s the all-aluminum version in some generations, maybe that was the plan at some point?

If the RM1 and RS1 used the same aluminium extrusion and the same plastic moulding then the design cost and tooling cost to make two versions probably wasn’t much higher than just making one version, and omitting the light ring and the machining/assembly related to the copper slug would save money that could add up… but it’s still strange they went through all that for only two chips that aren’t big sellers on the boxed/DIY market. Almost feels like teams weren’t talking to each other over there.

 

[thestryker]

Huh. Did they maybe expect to launch more low-end models? I think the last-gen cooler they gave some of the i3s the all-aluminum version in some generations, maybe that was the plan at some point?

If the RM1 and RS1 used the same aluminium extrusion and the same plastic moulding then the design cost and tooling cost to make two versions probably wasn’t much higher than just making one version, and omitting the light ring and the machining/assembly related to the copper slug would save money that could add up… but it’s still strange they went through all that for only two chips that aren’t big sellers on the boxed/DIY market. Almost feels like teams weren’t talking to each other over there.

The RS1 was also sold separately to the CPUs, but the RM1 was not. It's possible they had been selling those coolers to some system builders as well.