Tuesday, February 2nd 2016
AMD Offers New Thermal Solutions and Processors for Near-Silent Performance
AMD today launched new thermal solutions, including the flagship AMD Wraith Cooler, as well as the new AMD A10-7860K and new AMD Athlon X4 845 desktop processors. Designed for the consumer who cares about how their desktop PC runs, sounds, and looks, AMD now offers new thermal solutions that generate less than one-tenth the noise of their predecessors -- running at a near-silent 39 decibels, about as quiet as a library.
The new AMD Wraith Cooler combines near-silent operation with unique styling via a sleek fan shroud and LED illumination. Providing superb cooling, the new design delivers 34 percent more airflow and 24 percent more surface area for heat dissipation than its predecessor.
"The new high quality, robust thermal solutions from AMD for select processors provide a great out-of-the-box experience at no additional cost to the consumer," said Merle McIntosh, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing, Newegg, Inc. "The Wraith model has attractive styling with LED lighting and runs exceptionally quietly -- features we expect will impress our tech savvy consumers."
The new AMD thermal solutions are included with seven AMD processors:
Introducing the AMD A10-7860K Desktop Processor
Quiet, efficient and an incredible value, the new AMD A10-7860K APU is powered by four CPU cores clocked at 4.00 GHz turbo boost and eight GPU cores with integrated Radeon R7 processor graphics running at 757 MHz to enable smooth play of popular online games like Dota 2, League of Legends, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. The A10-7860K is the first unlocked desktop A10 processor to feature 65W TDP (Thermal Design Power) and includes a near-silent thermal solution rated at 95W TDP to ensure quiet operation. In addition, the AMD A10-7860K supports AMD FreeSync technology that puts an end to choppy gameplay and broken frames with fluid, artifact-free performance at virtually any framerate.
"Customers can build a capable, near-silent online gaming PC in a surprisingly small form factor for an unexpectedly low price" said Kevin Lensing, corporate vice president and general manager, Client Business Unit, AMD. "The low power requirements mean you can build a tiny system perfect for a small dorm room, for use in the living room as a home theatre PC (HTPC), and portable enough to take to a LAN party."
The New AMD Athlon X4 845 Desktop Processor
The AMD Athlon X4 845 is the first desktop processor featuring the AMD "Excavator" x86 architecture technology. The quad-core CPU is clocked at 3.80 GHz boost and offers the highest IPC (instructions per clock) AMD x86 performance yet. When paired with a discrete graphics card, the AMD Athlon X4 845 enables great gaming and multi-threaded processing performance for an attractive price. The new Athlon X4 845 is a 65W TDP processor that comes with a new AMD 95W thermal solution to provide excellent cooling performance and near-silent operation.
Pricing and Availability
The new AMD processors with new thermal solutions are available now at select e-tailers and participating system vendors.
Suggested price (SEP as of February 2, 2016):
The new AMD Wraith Cooler combines near-silent operation with unique styling via a sleek fan shroud and LED illumination. Providing superb cooling, the new design delivers 34 percent more airflow and 24 percent more surface area for heat dissipation than its predecessor.
The new AMD thermal solutions are included with seven AMD processors:
Quiet, efficient and an incredible value, the new AMD A10-7860K APU is powered by four CPU cores clocked at 4.00 GHz turbo boost and eight GPU cores with integrated Radeon R7 processor graphics running at 757 MHz to enable smooth play of popular online games like Dota 2, League of Legends, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. The A10-7860K is the first unlocked desktop A10 processor to feature 65W TDP (Thermal Design Power) and includes a near-silent thermal solution rated at 95W TDP to ensure quiet operation. In addition, the AMD A10-7860K supports AMD FreeSync technology that puts an end to choppy gameplay and broken frames with fluid, artifact-free performance at virtually any framerate.
"Customers can build a capable, near-silent online gaming PC in a surprisingly small form factor for an unexpectedly low price" said Kevin Lensing, corporate vice president and general manager, Client Business Unit, AMD. "The low power requirements mean you can build a tiny system perfect for a small dorm room, for use in the living room as a home theatre PC (HTPC), and portable enough to take to a LAN party."
The New AMD Athlon X4 845 Desktop Processor
The AMD Athlon X4 845 is the first desktop processor featuring the AMD "Excavator" x86 architecture technology. The quad-core CPU is clocked at 3.80 GHz boost and offers the highest IPC (instructions per clock) AMD x86 performance yet. When paired with a discrete graphics card, the AMD Athlon X4 845 enables great gaming and multi-threaded processing performance for an attractive price. The new Athlon X4 845 is a 65W TDP processor that comes with a new AMD 95W thermal solution to provide excellent cooling performance and near-silent operation.
Pricing and Availability
The new AMD processors with new thermal solutions are available now at select e-tailers and participating system vendors.
Suggested price (SEP as of February 2, 2016):
- AMD FX 8370 with Wraith - $199.99 USD
- AMD A10-7860K - $116.99 USD
- AMD A8-7670K - $104.99 USD
- AMD A8-7650K - $94.99 USD
- AMD Athlon X4 870K - $89.99 USD
- AMD Athlon X4 860K - $79.99 USD
- AMD Athlon X4 845 - $69.99 USD
36 Comments on AMD Offers New Thermal Solutions and Processors for Near-Silent Performance
However that 845 with 65W paired with a cooler for 95W, sounds like they know the folks that will buy that will clock it to reach 4.0 Ghz and have some cheap fun.
I'm also thinking of getting an 845 just to play with it.
Black Cooler = FX line
Red = APU line i take it,red also =Team Red Graphics cards So does this mean new cards will have red fans now ?
Here is the video of the Old stock cooler and the new Wraith The cooler itself is bigger too.
And we still can't get a real excavator CPU. There must be a massive amount of steamrollers that they need to purge b/c excavator with the extra cache would yield decent IPC improvement.
The inclusion of heat pipes, instead of just a metal block (at least on the high end) is nice. I'm hoping that this cooler is a portent of things to come. Hopefully AMD will have gone all out, and between the architecture, connectivity, and new cooler that Zen will truly compete with Intel's offerings.
It seems like AMD is actually getting ready to give Intel a battle in the reasonably priced computers arena. I'd like to see them be able to fight Intel all the way to their low end enthusiast offerings, so that we'd actually see some progress there.
Admittedly, this is largely wish fulfillment. AMD cranking out a decent stock cooler is fine, but for an extra $20 I can probably get something better in the aftermarket. Kudos on the improvement, but don't stop here AMD.
For a stock cooler it looks pretty decent, definitely something usable.
What few AMD builds I've done in the last decade haven't had a heat pipe, though they were generally just APUs.
Kinda seems silly that Intel is still bound to a chunk of metal even on their high end mainstream components.
at least you tried amd,
they tried and did well technically ... ;)
wait i just checked your link... a 4590 not even a 4690K ... 199$? too expensive for what it is :laugh: ;) the FX-8370 is still a better deal depending the need of the users
im gonna check the link ... thanks ...
Edit: www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117564&cm_re=intel_core_i5-_-19-117-564-_-Product
another great deal!
The FX CPUs are just fine, they are a bit slower and they consume a bit more, true, but nothing that would put them in the thrash bin and together with an i3.
Some time back I did an analysis based on the TechSpot gaming reviews for the latest AAA titles at the time and this are the findings:
CPU Performance index Average Frames
FX 8K category 9.24 73
FX 4K category 8.57 68
i5 category 9.93 78
i3 category 8.24 65
PII category 7.75 61
PII is phenom II, what I had at the time, i5 is mostly i5 3470 (3.2), sometimes 4670, FX 8K is the 8350 mostly. BTW above results are with top of the line GPUs, with mid range, there would probably not be any visible difference.
Modern software does use 4 or sometimes even more threads and in my analysis there were cases in which FX was faster than the i5 for example in Dying Light, Crew, Crysis 3, and the trend will continue further, multicore support will get better and better. The only AMD fault was that they came with this when the software was not ready and they paid in full for this mistake.
Recently there was a game on which i3 was not even working as it didn't had 4 cores, the Dragon Age Inquition I think. I didn't follow so I don't know if it was patched for this or not in the end.
Also FX is a real processor compared to that toy of i3 and FX can do so much more than with an i3, like encoding, virtual machines, database, etc.
the most recent builds I have done include intel haswel i3's, they perform pretty fine, that’s why I mention i3's over FX, the unique thing I like about most amd units it’s the price, they are pretty affordable, decent units
All FX processors aren't crap, they certainly all aren't at or below the i3 level. But some are.
I'd take a haswell/skylake desktop i3 over an FX-4XXX, but I'd take an FX-6XXX or FX-8XXX over an i3. And when you can get an FX-8300 for the same cost as an i3, I'd go with the FX...