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Is the Wraith Prism noisy?

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I am getting a 3700X and will be using the stock wraith cooler at least for a while.

 

Performance looks acceptable to me and I'm not overclocking it. Does the fan ramp up and down under various load? I don't mind a constant hum but I'm annoyed by rapid changes in RPMs. I know AIOs are far better at this but I don't feel like dropping £110+ on one for now 

 

I'm open to hear about your experience with the stock cooler 

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I use one on my 3700X, and while it's not silent, it's far from obnoxious in my opinion. It doesn't have an annoying high pitched whine and you should be able to adjust the RPM profile in BIOS.

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It's no noisier than any of my case fans. To be fair, I have a Thermaltake Suppressor F31 case, so noise is a little less of an issue overall. Given that it's free, it's pretty decent.

 

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my wraith prism is pretty silent. far from wraith spire

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Same experience. Pretty quiet. 

The cooler works well on 105w chips. 

Almost no point to upgrade the Prism unless you just want to try and lower temps. 

The Prism design is very similar to Phenom and Opteron 140W cpus. 

 

There is also rumors of the Wraith Prism being "beefed up" in design.

A couple more heat pipes might do the trick going from 4 to 6. 

This may likely put the cooler's design point somewhere between 150 and 160W (Thermal displacement or BTU/hr.)

 

Have a look.

 

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