AMD's Wraith Max cooler now available as a separate cooler for $59

[Misanthrope]

54 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

lol dumb. Pricing a stock cooler above a 212 Evo / H7 when both are better performers is hilarious. Please AMD, you're finally competitive with Intel again, you're not crushing them to rip off customers.

True, but the relevant part here is the RGB tax. This might not sit well with most here but if someone's willing to pay for the RGB then they deserve to be ripped off i.e. people paying 30 bucks for a single corsair RGB fan.

[Phate.exe]

1 hour ago, Mooshi said:

lol dumb. Pricing a stock cooler above a 212 Evo / H7 when both are better performers is hilarious. Please AMD, you're finally competitive with Intel again, you're not crushing them to rip off customers.

212 Evo and H7 are tall AF tower coolers (159mm and 145mm), the Wraith Max is only 85mm high, much more comparable in height to a stock cooler, with the same cooling performance as the 212 and H7.  Also it moves a lot more air over your VRM's than a tower cooler will.

[LukaH]

I was actually searching ebay just a day or two back to see if anybody is selling it. Well I guess i jinxed it, you are all welcome. 

 

 

edit: not buying it at 60$ which in € will probably be even more expensive.

[LAwLz]

51 minutes ago, Fonzie92 said:

 

Thanks for playing

Holy fuck... That can't be real. Especially not the the comments about the monitors.

I refuse to believe that AMD would make such a horrible mistake.

[VerticalDiscussions]

Dont tell me AMD is starting to derail again....

 

 

[captain cactus]

2 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Holy fuck... That can't be real. Especially not the the comments about the monitors.

I refuse to believe that AMD would make such a horrible mistake.

It's a rumour. If AMD tells us with their all be it crappy marketing that a FreeSync+Vega setup vs GSync+1080(Ti) setup is $300 less expensive than the latter you can't have a Vega GPU that's above 1080Ti pricing.

[LAwLz]

Just now, lots of unexplainable lag said:

It's a rumour. If AMD tells us with their all be it crappy marketing that a FreeSync+Vega setup vs GSync+1080(Ti) setup is $300 less expensive than the latter you can't have a Vega GPU that's above 1080Ti pricing.

You can actually. Read the Reddit thread. The monitor AMD chose for the Nvidia setup (assuming they actually found the correct model) is 600 dollars more expensive than the monitor they picked for the AMD setup (again, assuming the monitors posted in the reddit thread are the correct ones).

 

So their whole "the Nvidia setup is 300 dollars more expensive" statement would imply that the Vega card is actually 300 dollars more expensive than the Nvidia card. It's just that they hide that cost behind the cost of the monitors they choice.

[Fetzie]

9 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Holy fuck... That can't be real. Especially not the the comments about the monitors.

I refuse to believe that AMD would make such a horrible mistake.

IIRC nVidia have higher list prices before release than they are after release too.

[Jito463]

2 hours ago, Fonzie92 said:

Thanks for playing

He meant somewhere official and legit.  That is neither.

[Yoinkerman]

I've been really happy with the one that came with my r7 1700

[captain cactus]

29 minutes ago, Yoinkerman said:

I've been really happy with the one that came with my r7 1700

The 1700 didn't come with a Wraith Max, it had a Wraith Spire, a 95W TDP cooler. Wraith Max is for 140W TDP.

[Yoinkerman]

15 minutes ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

The 1700 didn't come with a Wraith Max, it had a Wraith Spire, a 95W TDP cooler. Wraith Max is for 140W TDP.

Oh.

 

Well I've still been really happy with it.  I'm guessing this max is even better

[Terryv]

3 hours ago, Yoinkerman said:

Oh.

 

Well I've still been really happy with it.  I'm guessing this max is even better

I believe the max performs similar to a 212 evo

[Dabombinable]

4 hours ago, kaiju_wars said:

Oh it can, they make LGA brackets that come with the mounts for AMD coolers.

Anyway to get them separately? Because my LGA775 coolers also support AMD sockets-and the current mounting method is a bit ghetto on LGA 1150....

Edit: I've also got an FX 8350 cooler that I'd like to try on my 4790K.

[kaiju_wars]

49 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Anyway to get them separately? Because my LGA775 coolers also support AMD sockets-and the current mounting method is a bit ghetto on LGA 1150....

Edit: I've also got an FX 8350 cooler that I'd like to try on my 4790K.

I don't know if they do.  Granted, you can probably buy one of those $5 cheap knock off chinese coolers that comes with one, but as for selling separately, you'd probably have to check.

[Dabombinable]

6 minutes ago, kaiju_wars said:

I don't know if they do.  Granted, you can probably buy one of those $5 cheap knock off chinese coolers that comes with one, but as for selling separately, you'd probably have to check.

Looking at the mounting bracket it wouldn't work anyway-my coolers use clips for AMD sockets not screws.

[kaiju_wars]

2 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Looking at the mounting bracket it wouldn't work anyway-my coolers use clips for AMD sockets not screws.

Yeah, like I said earlier, that bracket comes with the little clips to hook onto.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Ho boy, i was looking at the gammaxx gt but I'm rolling with now

[Herman Mcpootis]

7 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

What I want to do is mount this on an Intel board. I'm sure it can be done. :3

@Dabombinable

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/CPU-fan-bracket-for-Intel-LGA775-1151-1150-1155-1156-1366/32719882473.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.1.PaCO9N&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_5_10152_10065_10151_10068_10084_10083_10080_10307_10082_10081_10110_10137_10175_10111_10060_10112_10113_10155_10114_10154_10056_10055_10054_10310_10312_10059_100031_10099_10078_10079_10103_10073_10102_10052_10053_10142_10107_10050_10051,searchweb201603_1,ppcSwitch_4&btsid=e4be18d8-478e-4a01-9742-fbe10d96a177&algo_expid=080afe03-ca85-4f4f-bad1-35f1afdc2977-0&algo_pvid=080afe03-ca85-4f4f-bad1-35f1afdc2977

costs peanuts, but not so sure about shipping prices for you.

[Dabombinable]

15 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

@Dabombinable

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/CPU-fan-bracket-for-Intel-LGA775-1151-1150-1155-1156-1366/32719882473.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.1.PaCO9N&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_5_10152_10065_10151_10068_10084_10083_10080_10307_10082_10081_10110_10137_10175_10111_10060_10112_10113_10155_10114_10154_10056_10055_10054_10310_10312_10059_100031_10099_10078_10079_10103_10073_10102_10052_10053_10142_10107_10050_10051,searchweb201603_1,ppcSwitch_4&btsid=e4be18d8-478e-4a01-9742-fbe10d96a177&algo_expid=080afe03-ca85-4f4f-bad1-35f1afdc2977-0&algo_pvid=080afe03-ca85-4f4f-bad1-35f1afdc2977

costs peanuts, but not so sure about shipping prices for you.

Found it on Ebay: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/CPU-Cooler-Fan-heatsink-Bracket-Holder-Base-Forlga775-1150-1156-1155-775-1366-/152425973929?hash=item237d4bc8a9:g:DFIAAOSw-KFXfgqv

 

That'd really work as a method to use coolers with AMD mounting brackets to my motherboards? Because if so, my i7 will get my Cooler Master Eclipse (currently ghettod by removing 2 of the screws on its LGA775 bracket and adjusting to fit LGA1150 diagonally), and my Xeon X5450 will get the FX 8350 stock cooler (since my Xeon X5450 has a similar heat output at the same clock speeds).

[Herman Mcpootis]

2 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Cooler Master Eclipse 

jesus, and here i thought the old zalman heatsinks look weird 

it should work just fine, saw one of the comments from taobao listing claim it took a gammaxx 400 without issue.

[JoostinOnline]

Lol when I read this I was thinking of the Wraith Spire, and I thought "What idiot is going to spend $60 on a Hyper 212 Evo knock-off?"

[Dabombinable]

7 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

jesus, and here i thought the old zalman heatsinks look weird 

it should work just fine, saw one of the comments from taobao listing claim it took a gammaxx 400 without issue.

What's even better: I got mine new in its original, unopened packaging, along with a Blue ICE chipset cooler in the same manner for my P5Q Turbo: http://www.coolermaster.com/service/support/model/RT-UCL-L4U1/
 

 

Edit: BTW, look at the Mars, and try to say that the Eclipse is weirder.....

[Herman Mcpootis]

14 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

What's even better: I got mine new in its original, unopened packaging, along with a Blue ICE chipset cooler in the same manner for my P5Q Turbo: http://www.coolermaster.com/service/support/model/RT-UCL-L4U1/
 

 

Edit: BTW, look at the Mars, and try to say that the Eclipse is weirder.....

the eclipse still looks weirder to me IMHO

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

8 hours ago, Mooshi said:

lol dumb. Pricing a stock cooler above a 212 Evo / H7 when both are better performers is hilarious. Please AMD, you're finally competitive with Intel again, you're not crushing them to rip off customers.

Intel wasn't exactly helping themselves when they were selling this pile of rubbish for 40 bucks. 

And that was for LGA 2011, i.e. their enthusiast platform.