Fake AMD Wraith Prism

benmrns · March 16, 2021

Hey! I recently bought an AMD Wraith Prism cooler for my first build with an R5 3500. I bought it from a chinese retailer using a popular marketplace app here in the Philippines. I tried searching for "fake amd wraith prisms" and I have seen an article from www.tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/counterfeit-amd-wraith-prism-coolers-are-entering-the-market) and a forum post here. In the article from Tom's Hardware, the fake cooler was in a black box package and contained a barcode with the words "AMD P/N : 712-00075 Rev:D", the exact same as mine. However, the article stated that the fake cooler had six heatpipes, mine only had four. I'm pretty sure mine are also fake even though it only had four heatpipes (assuming they revised it recently to copy AMD's cooler more). Should I risk using the cooler I bought for ~30US$ or just use the stock cooler that came in with the R5 3500?

Spotty · March 16, 2021

> Moved to Cooling forum.

11 minutes ago, benmrns said:

Should I risk using the cooler I bought for ~30US$ or just use the stock cooler that came in with the R5 3500?

There's probably not that much 'risk' in using the other cooler, there's just no guarantee that it will perform as good or be as reliable as the legitimate cooler. Just think of it as a cheap third party CPU cooler.

17 minutes ago, benmrns said:

In the article from Tom's Hardware, the fake cooler was in a black box package and contained a barcode with the words "AMD P/N : 712-00075 Rev:D", the exact same as mine.

712-00075 is just the part number used by AMD for the cooler, which the counterfeit coolers copied. Just because it has that part number does not mean it is fake.

The easy way to spot the fakes were that they had additional heat pipes. If the counterfeits have been updated and now have 4 heatpipes like the original then it's going to make spotting the fakes more difficult.

I'm guessing you want to use the wraith prism cooler because of the RGB? I would just use it. Keep the wraith spire (or is it wraith stealth that comes with the R5 3500?) that came with the CPU though and if you have any issues swap them.