Announcement Ryzen Wraith Spire Cooler is Horrible.

[aigomorla]

I personally never use any stock coolers, but my cousin wanted to save some cash.
Figured how bad could it be...

Its horrible....
The wraith max and prisms were fairly acceptable. but the spire is just a straight up waste of aluminum which is better used to make into beer cans.
Why AMD, you should just not give us a sink and make us save a few more dollars, instead of giving us this junk you call heat sink.
The CPU had high idles, and on a hot day like today, where ambients were like 30C, i was seeing an idle of 58C.
That is truly cringe worthy seeing how my 2080ti doesn't even load at 50C under its waterblock in the same ambient conditions.

I convinced my cousin to spend a little extra and get a Noctua.

Do yourself a favor, and grab that extra sink if your thinking of a new build and chug that stock cooler in the recycle bin, as i would rank it next to the intel stock coolers without the copper core.

 

[Stuka87]

I just purchased a Ryzen 5 3600, X570 motherboard, and some memory. Was going to wait on getting aftermarket cooling but the stock cooler stopped me from even checking the system out. No copper core and it is supposedly a CPU that gets a little toasty.

Hopefully the cooler I purchased will arrive tomorrow. Just looking at the stock cooler was enough for me to not even consider using it.

You would be fine with the stock cooler in most scenarios. Like mentioned earlier in this thread, 7nm CPU's have higher reported temps, but that doesn't mean they need a big cooler. The wattage that needs to be dissipated isn't that high as its only a 65W CPU.

 

[thilanliyan]

I've had my new R5 3600 running with the stock cooler just for some testing and it idles at like ~32C (according to HWInfo) on a X570 board. 58C idle doesn't sound right.

Load testing is a no-go with the stock cooler though lol.