Stock Cooler Battle
You’ve seen ourRyzen 5 3600 vs.
This particular board uses LGA1156 mounting holes, meaning it has native support for Intel coolers.
So we bought a Phantom Gaming-ITX and got to testing.
The next issue we ran into was fan speed.
Typically, Intel box coolers are noisy buggers that spin very fast.
The E97379 is an all-aluminum cooler and it was first bundled with the Core i3 Sandy Bridge processors.
So the Prism set the benchmark at 71 degrees.
Coming in just a few degrees warmer is the copper version of the Wraith Spire.
Was this a pointless test?
We had some fun putting it together to be honest.
Granted, the Wraith Stealth wasn’t much better.
It’s less forgivable that Intel ships their current generationCore i7-9700with that aluminum cooler.
We’ve found the 3700X perfectly usable with the Wraith Prism that comes in the box.
It’s not particularly loud and it runs at 78 degrees stock in a well-ventilated case.
