By Joe Osborne
AMD has garnered a reputation in the PC component world of focusing on throughput over thermals, or power over practicality. That’s been true for some time, but the chipmaker is looking to turn that around with its latest desktop processors for 2016.
The company’s big ticket item is more of an upgrade to one of the firm’s most popular chips: the AMD FX-8370 has now been equipped with a newly-designed cooler called the Wraith. This massive black cooler replaces the chip’s current stock cooler.
But looks can be deceiving as, despite its size, this cooler is said to run at a maximum of 39 decibels (dbA) – or “practically inaudible,” according to AMD. And, for the show-off PC gamers out there, the cooler features its own backlit illumination.
How does it work? Mostly thanks to relatively enormous size, the Wraith Cooler has 24% more cooling fin surface area and thus 34% more airflow, generating one-tenth the noise of its predecessor. In short, bigger fans have to work less to move air.
Putting the icing on the cake, AMD says that the Wraith Cooler will come stock on new runs of the FX 8370 at no additional cost. The current chip with the older cooler …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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