New AMD Wraith Spire vs old Wraith Spire CPU cooler!

[Asterox]

With Ryzen 5 3600X in retail box is new model of Wraith Spire CPU cooler.Here is a short test, old model with cooper base vs new aluminium model of Wraith Spire CPU cooler.New model his fan rotates up to 3000 rpm, compared to old model with fan up to 2000 rpm.

The difference in cooling performance is rather small, but as expected new aluminium model produces more noise.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I don't know if I would believe the results of that video, off hand, given the description, because I'm using an old-style Wraith Spire from an original R5 1600 CPU retail box, on this R5 3600 that was an upgrade to my Gigabyte B450 AORUS PRO WIFI mobo, and it's currently spinning at 2700RPM, with a max listed in HWMonitor as 2732RPM.

So, the old-style Wraith Spire coolers are NOT limited to 2000RPM. Either his was detected wrong, or the mobo detected a new fan installed, and reset the BIOS settings. In my B450 board, I can choose to run the fan RPMs for CPU fan, system fans, etc., based on certain thermal sensors, or just turn them "full on".

He probably just plugged it in, and didn't configure his BIOS? Or his BIOS is buggy? Or AMD shipped out different Wraith Spire (old style) coolers, with different fan motors? (Never heard of that with AMD, but have heard of that with Intel. I prefer the NIDEC Intel stock heatsink fans.)

Edit: What could be happening, is that he left "Smart Fan" enabled in BIOS (probably the default), and the fan RPMs spin up as needed to cool the CPU more, and the copper-cored old-style Wraith Spire is more effective at cooling, thus didn't have to spin up the fan as much. That's my interpretation.

 

[Asterox]

I don't know if I would believe the results of that video, off hand, given the description, because I'm using an old-style Wraith Spire from an original R5 1600 CPU retail box, on this R5 3600 that was an upgrade to my Gigabyte B450 AORUS PRO WIFI mobo, and it's currently spinning at 2700RPM, with a max listed in HWMonitor as 2732RPM.

So, the old-style Wraith Spire coolers are NOT limited to 2000RPM. Either his was detected wrong, or the mobo detected a new fan installed, and reset the BIOS settings. In my B450 board, I can choose to run the fan RPMs for CPU fan, system fans, etc., based on certain thermal sensors, or just turn them "full on".

He probably just plugged it in, and didn't configure his BIOS? Or his BIOS is buggy? Or AMD shipped out different Wraith Spire (old style) coolers, with different fan motors? (Never heard of that with AMD, but have heard of that with Intel. I prefer the NIDEC Intel stock heatsink fans.)

Edit: What could be happening, is that he left "Smart Fan" enabled in BIOS (probably the default), and the fan RPMs spin up as needed to cool the CPU more, and the copper-cored old-style Wraith Spire is more effective at cooling, thus didn't have to spin up the fan as much. That's my interpretation.

Hoosier Hardware test is not that detail, but is short conclusion is new Wraith Spire is cheeper CPU cooler.

Hardware Unboxed test is much beeter or more details, but the conclusion is the same.Should we be dissatisfied, not really if you look what CPU+stock cooler Intel sells and at what absurd prices.

 

[Kenmitch]

They're both functional to test for DOA components. Anybody that's temp paranoid won't use them anyways.

 

[Topweasel]

They're both functional to test for DOA components. Anybody that's temp paranoid won't use them anyways.

There are 3. important aspects.
1. That the OEM HSFs have only ever about let the CPU run within its non-turbo limits. AMD ones generally go beyond that.
2. That the 3k series has a much higher heat tolerance then previous Ryzens. It makes sense that as tolerances rises they would need less cooling for same functionality.
3. As you say, anyone one trying to keep the CPU cool, will be using a much different cooler. Most people asking and upset about this aren't the ones using the cooler.