AMD’s Wraith Spire can hit liquid-cooled, CPU-chilling performance… with a $20 fan
One enterprising ‘modder’ has managed to squeeze all-in-one liquid CPU cooling performance out of the Wraith Spire stock cooler for their AMD Ryzen 7 1700 processor, cutting the peak temps by well over 20°C. How have they done this? By jury rigging a $20 fan attached to the standard heat sink.
The fan in question is a simple 92mm case fan, but one that’s capable of shifting more than double the cubic feet per minute (CFM) of the original fan. It’s a standard PWM fan too, so you get all the easy fan control that you would normally get with the Wraith Spire, except with much better cooling.
The only real problem is that it can get rather chatty when you’re running at maximum loads, and I’m not 100% confident that just attaching fan to cooler with a single screw in one corner is an installation procedure that will be without future issues. The chances of that staying completely in place for the duration is pretty unlikely; it’ll be fine for a short while, like weighting it down with a brick would be fine, but I’d still recommend finding a more permanent fixing method.
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