Thursday, January 7th 2016
AMD Demoes Quiet and Groovy New Reference CPU Cooler
AMD demonstrated a new reference air-based CPU cooling solution. Called the AMD Wraith, the cooler addresses the noise problem affecting AMD's stock CPU cooler, particularly on 95W-125W CPUs and APUs; and is more easy to deal with, than the company's liquid cooling solution. AMD Wraith could either be sold standalone, or as part of premium bundles with certain current or upcoming CPUs/APUs.
In its demo, the AMD Wraith is shown to be significantly quieter than AMD's stock cooling solution at maximum speed. Much like the stock cooler, the AMD Wraith is a top-flow aluminium fin-stack cooler, but with a larger heatsink, and a bigger fan. A groovy LED backlit AMD logo decks the black cooler shroud.
The video presentation by AMD follows.
In its demo, the AMD Wraith is shown to be significantly quieter than AMD's stock cooling solution at maximum speed. Much like the stock cooler, the AMD Wraith is a top-flow aluminium fin-stack cooler, but with a larger heatsink, and a bigger fan. A groovy LED backlit AMD logo decks the black cooler shroud.
49 Comments on AMD Demoes Quiet and Groovy New Reference CPU Cooler
I had that cooler on the right (in the video). After about fifteen minutes of owning it I ripped that banshee of a fan off of there, extremely annoyed. Put an 80mm on there and everything was great.
I can't believe the noise levels they thought people should have to tolerate.
(lol.... I just told my wife about this... she said "ooo, good job AMD, only took you ten years.")
AMD isn't just scraping the bottom of the barrel here, they're doing what Tycho is saying in panels 2 and 3:
The problem is 140w (AMD) processors compared to 95w (Intel) processors. Also the fact Intel doesn't mind if they run at 100C either. Get what I'm saying?
Well I can safely say its another improvement, I mean honestly the stock coolers are usually pretty abysmal but at least the high end FX cooler was pretty decent enough to maintain a good temp range (Albeit with some noise). Its nice to at least get a decent cooler (That might even provide a tiny amount of overclocking headroom) with the CPU so your not forced to buy a better cooler.
Though the LED effect is really pointless on the side of the cooler. I mean the coolers in most cases are only going to be visible from the top so why put it on the side???
That older set-up has always been a less robust solution when moving to taller/heavier aftermarket coolers. It's not the lever idea so much, but more they need to clamp on 4 points. The current is fine with a stock cooler, but aftermarket can have a tendency to move or lean which breaks the thermal paste.
Sure there are certain Aftermarket coolers with improve mounting, but are few and far between anymore. But would like a fairly all encompassing conversion so I can use any cooler on either platform and make it robust. There was the XIGMATEK Crossbow Ack brackets that converted AM3 the LGA775 platform, those work great but went EoL some time ago. There's aXigmatek Crossbar ACK-U01 mounting though that I believe is not always compatible with every or most other aftermarket coolers, while doesn't permit rotation of the cooler in all attitudes.
Do you know of a conversion that moves from the AM3 style to say the LGA1150 4-point mount?