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hey everyone I'm Steve from gamers access net and today we're doing a subjective noise comparison of the AMD FX 8350 you color which is brand new and we're comparing that against the old stock cooler that it is sort of replacing or shipping alongside so the deal here a quick recap the Wraiths is $10 more than the non race called FX 83-70 the race took the place of the 83-70 so the price is the same it's still 200 bucks for the CPU and the wraith but the old one dropped ten dollars so the main difference between these two the old cooler runs maximally at about 52 52 rpm so 5,000 rpm plus and the new wraith runs at about 3000 rpm what happens here is because the wraith has 24% more surface area to dissipate the heat through alloy and copper and through a larger better spec fan it's able to sustain similar or slightly better thermals than the old cooler as you'll see in our charts here and we have the full review already on the channel if you want to see more about these thermal charts so it's able to retain these temperatures at a significantly lower noise output because of this improved cooler and none of this just a quick disclaimer is talking about the viability of the processor itself we're strictly looking at the coolers and the technology in them and the noise levels today what we've got for you here is a hookup of the two coolers to a power supply directly and they're operating at a hundred percent speed so this is full rpm and this is what we use for our thermal testing for many reasons detailed in the thermal articles mostly test methodology reasons so even if you're using in the real world maybe an auto setting this gives you an idea of what the max 100% fan speed is I'll give you a listen and then I'll explain the setup so the first cooler is the original stock cooler the second one is the AMD FX so a few things to note here first of all obviously the race is a lot quieter secondly the Wraith is a much more tolerable tone the old cooler has sort of a higher pitched frequency when it was operating and that's partly because of the high rpms and the bearings and things like that the new one is more of a mid tone output so that's more in line with what you get in normal case fans and because it's not producing some sort of weird outlier noise or frequency I should say it's a lot more tolerable to the end user second thing is this is not an objective noise level measurement are not presenting decibel values because we don't have an anechoic chamber or anything remotely close to that to test in so what you're listening to or what you listen to is strictly a subjective measurement to using our high-end $400 h6n professional studio recording mic and we hooked that up to a couple of different microphones shotgun mic reporter mic things like that to just collect different noise levels from around the room and then we put in the one that we thought best demonstrated the comparison between the two the scenario for measuring the noise for operating the fan was identical for both coolers so these are 100% identical noise levels were input to the recorder at an identical setting the tripod was an identical distance from each cooler in each test so you can know that these were conducted under very perfectly matched test configuration settings and that means that you can make the subject of comparison without any sort of odd variables that may have changed in the test setup because there were none so that is all for the noise comparison of the two coolers hopefully that helps anyone out there trying to decide if it's worth buying the Wraith check our review on the channel for more information on the Wraith cooler and again patreon link in the post all video if you want to help us out directly you subscribe as always thanks for watching I'll see you all next time