Hi! I was wondering, whether it is possible to use the new beefy cooler designed for Intel Core Ultra on previous generations of mainboards to reduce noise and thermal load.
Obviously, thermal pads need to be adjusted accordingly, but main things in question are the mounting screws and voltage regulators placement.
Of course, I expect that to be full DIY, own risk, no warranty, etc.
Ok, by using highly scientific method of pixel matching I ended up with the following:
Here you can see the old gen12 cooler put on top of a red outline of the ultra’s cooler.
Looks like screw holes are exactly the same or at least very close. However, there are differences in thermal interface around the CPU. The main question is, would it affect anything.
Flicking between the coolers on the parts page here: Framework | Heatsink and Fan Kit
They all look very similar in terms of shape and mounting. However I am aware that a laptop CPU die is exposed and the various CPUs may well have different cooler mounting heights.
So I just wanted to confirm if there is any inter-compatibility between coolers - specifically in my case wondering about the new Intel cooler and it’s compatibility with AMD boards.
edit: Thanks to mods for merge, didn’t find this topic. Hopefully this can be answered!
Just bumping this to see if anyone has an update
From the pictures it does look really similar to the normal amd one apart from the (probably) vrm bit being a little wider.
Would be interesting to see someone try but it would need to be significantly better to be worth spending 40 bucks+shipping on.
If you want low hanging fruit put some ptm7950 on your existing heatsink if you have not already.
The heatsink part is not backwards compatible 
Officially XD
Yea, already did the ptm7950 mod.
Shame about the incompatibility, but it makes sense
If the framework shop would ship to me I’d be pretty tempted to try anyway XD
I do wish they’d share some data about how much better the big single heat-pipe is though, you can’t really compare sustained power at a given temp between different chips especially between manufacturers but they must have tried the old style at some point on the core ultras.
Framework doesn’t ship to your location?
You know about Frame.parts, right? They ship worldwide. frame-parts.myshopify.com. You could ask them to get one for you.
Yea I can’t imagine the gain is massive (especially not enough to overcome a poor mating surface due to incompatibility) but a greater volume for the vapour should practically lead to a small gain in cooling.
That’s with the caveat of all of the other parts of the system (fan, radiator fins etc) being able to handle an increased transfer of heat.
I may not exactly be in a supported country XD
(and frameparts doesn’t have the heat-sink in the first place even if I could get them to ship to me)
I doubt that’s the issue, the mating surface looks the same, the vrm cooling area looks a bit bigger on the ultra which may interfere but nothing a bit of careful violence can’t fix.
better transfer to the fins = more cooling with the same fan and everything else.
FrameParts says they do “Worldwide Shipping”, and also
Parts Request
If you need a part that is not on the website, just get in touch and we can order it in for you
Contact link: frame-parts.myshopify.com/pages/contact
Very much agree with that sentiment
