AMD Wraith Prism Stock Cooler Eye Candy

FrgMstr

FrgMstr

Just Plain Mean
Staff member
Joined
May 18, 1997
Messages
55,634
No matter your stance on Frag Harder Disco Lights, I have to admit after I got this new Wraith Prism cooler up and running, I thought it was worth a little video coverage. Our review of the Ryzen 2700X is here, and this cooler comes with the 2700X. We are getting testing down now with just how Precision Boost 2 works with the 2700X on stock settings compared to our most awesome XSPC custom loop.

​
 
Just skipped through the video and didn't see it, so I'll ask: can you set it to do solid white?

[I'm not a fan of the RGB craze, but at least means that I can usually get a sharp white out of stuff...]
 
IdiotInCharge said:
Just skipped through the video and didn't see it, so I'll ask: can you set it to do solid white?

[I'm not a fan of the RGB craze, but at least means that I can usually get a sharp white out of stuff...]
Click to expand...

Yea, I can't do the automated randomized rbg stuff. The only reason I get rbg stuff is to get the color I want.
 
If you're going to play elevator music, could you at least ask me what floor I'm going to? Or have you giving up on that Texas Hippie music and evolved(?) into New Age Aromatherapy music?
 
IdiotInCharge said:
Just skipped through the video and didn't see it, so I'll ask: can you set it to do solid white?

[I'm not a fan of the RGB craze, but at least means that I can usually get a sharp white out of stuff...]
Click to expand...
Yeah, it is fully controllable.

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/cpu-cooler-solution

The AMD Wraith Prism represents AMD’s ultimate cooling solution for air-cooled processors. The Wraith Prism goes where no stock cooler has gone before with per-RGB LED control around the illuminated light ring and transparent fan blades for movement and rainbow color effect control. But the Wraith Prism isn’t just a pretty face; we’ve increased motherboard and RAM compatibility by minimizing the profile and added direct-contact heat pipes and fan overclocking control to increase thermal effectiveness, too. User-controlled RGB illumination relies on socket AM4 motherboards that support this feature, like the ASRock RGB LED, ASUS Aura sync, Biostar VIVID LED DJ, Gigabyte RGB Fusion, and MSI Mystic Light. Download the RGB illumination control utility for AMD Wraith Prism cooler from CoolerMaster.
 
I just wish they had a non-cooler option right from the start.
Not saying the stock ones are bad but what am I going to do with it when I'm running a custom loop...
 
Does this thing rattle like other Wraith coolers do? I've had 3 of the stealth and one "max" and they all had rattling fins.
 
LigTasm said:
Does this thing rattle like other Wraith coolers do? I've had 3 of the stealth and one "max" and they all had rattling fins.
Click to expand...

my wraith spire was dead silent even when my cpu was at full load which has the same fan as the prism.
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
my wraith spire was dead silent even when my cpu was at full load which has the same fan as the prism.
Click to expand...

The spire is round, not the same as the one I'm talking about. These ones are the square ones with the thin aluminum fins. The fan doesn't rattle, the fins seem to separate somewhere and start vibrating together. Just poking one side of it with your finger stops it but as soon as you let go it cuts loose with the rattling again.
 
I'm waiting for the nvidia cease and desist letter for using green lights.
 
The use of LED lighting within a PC is sort of the equivalent of slapping performance stickers on a car. Does absolutely nothing for performance and it reaches a point that once past, turns into this exuberant orgasm of tackiness.
 
You are getting very sleepy, your eyes are getting heavy..............................
 
Frankly I never got why people hate so much on RGB

For me it means I can sync the colors all to white, or red, or whatever my mood is next month is

There is no reason to have it the lights go all skittles on you

vegeta535 said:
The most important question is can you turn it off?
Click to expand...
RGB lights have some kind of control, all of them (at least in the last years)

The cooler has a header for on board RGB controllers
Full control on color and brightness
And yes, also off
Also the AMD software

RGB usually means having control over the LEDs, including brightness and an off option


Supercharged_Z06 said:
The use of LED lighting within a PC is sort of the equivalent of slapping performance stickers on a car. Does absolutely nothing for performance and it reaches a point that once past, turns into this exuberant orgasm of tackiness.
Click to expand...

Oh so long ago cold cathodes where all the rage

One could argue water cooling is all about the looks as well
There is very little gained going through all that compared to high end air cooling

Heavens said:
I just wish they had a non-cooler option right from the start.
Not saying the stock ones are bad but what am I going to do with it when I'm running a custom loop...
Click to expand...

Why does that matter
It's not like the price would drop by 50 bucks
Probably by nothing as AMD would keep the price and get a higher margin (AMD is still a company out to make a profit after all)

You're already investing a good amount of money into it

And what I always read is how great it is compared to Intel that a good enough cooler comes with it
 
Last edited:
I'd like to see a review of this along side the other Wraiths and some other mid range aftermarket coolers.
 
Peter2k said:
....
One could argue water cooling is all about the looks as well
There is very little gained going through all that compared to high end air cooling

...."
Click to expand...

MicroATX or thin cases have a practical use for it.
2x 360 rads(60mm+32mm) on EK blocks do NOT beat the best from Rajintek so I pretty much agree, it does have nichè uses though.
 
ole-m said:
MicroATX or thin cases have a practical use for it.
2x 360 rads(60mm+32mm) on EK blocks do NOT beat the best from Rajintek so I pretty much agree, it does have nichè uses though.
Click to expand...

If you can't best a HSF with 720mm of rad, then you are doing something wrong. Very very wrong. I will never go back to a traditional HSF combo as long as WC is an option. aawesomene performance aside, the silence is well worth it alone. Also having single slot high end GPUs is icing on the cake!
 
ccityinstaller said:
If you can't best a HSF with 720mm of rad, then you are doing something wrong. Very very wrong. I will never go back to a traditional HSF combo as long as WC is an option. aawesomene performance aside, the silence is well worth it alone. Also having single slot high end GPUs is icing on the cake!
Click to expand...

Agreed. Custom loop with 840mm of rad here, all of it configured push/pull using Gentle Typhons on fan controllers. A HSF won’t touch that when it comes to keeping things cool, nor keeping a heavily OCed Titan XP happy... and it runs a hell of a lot quieter than a HSF setup.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top