The Elusive AMD Wraith Max CPU Cooler Tested With Ryzen 7 1700

The AMD Wraith Max was shown off quite a bit in Ryzen'south early days and people were a fleck bummed to discover out that information technology would not be shipping out with initial Ryzen chips but alleviated when we institute out that information technology would be available as a separate standalone purchase. This was something that people take been asking for since the release of the original AMD Wraith cooler back with the FX and A10 series processors as we found it to be virtually every bit powerful as many aftermarket coolers while withal being painless to install.

Thank you to Brad over at PCWorld we found out that the Wraith Max had finally gone on sale in the U.S. just to sell out immediately. Well, that was fun. The news came right as I was editing the included video where we went alee and compared the Wraith Max cooler to the stock Wraith Spire using the Ryzen vii 1700 at both stock and overclocked speeds.

Every bit proficient as the Wraith Max may be information technology'due south kinda hard to recommend running out and buying one since y'all can't find them, but we do have a couple recommendations that friction match performance but lack a picayune flare.

The original AMD Wraith Cooler tin be found on Amazon for a wallet friendly toll currently at $35.99. Want to strip it down and save even more than, the AMD Silent Cooler w/o LED is the same cooler and fan sans sleeved cables and LED logo for roughly half coming in at $18.10!