Review on High Performance CPU Air Cooler: Cooler Master AMD Wraith Ripper for ThreadRipper TR4, featuring ARGB Threadripper logo display, 7 Heat Pipes, Dual Tower Heatsink, and Wraith Armor Air-Guide by Michael Moulton

I can breathe again. Cooler Master not only saved me from Thermaltake's terrible AIO, but also from processor death. But it beats the highest RAM I've ever had by about half a millimeter on a X399 Gigabyte Designare MB with a 1920X Threadripper! The fans can be raised slightly and the fins are literally a human hair or two above the nearest RAM slots. When this thing comes out of hiding from the giant box it comes in, it's shockingly massive. The cooler weighs almost two pounds. with dual towers, massive pipes and two 120mm RGB fans. The photos on the internet just can't tell the story of this cooler well enough. There should be larger cooling units. should be? It does not matter. Tomorrow I will do a 24 hour stress test to see what Cooler Master can do. So far the temperature reaches 60°C and then fluctuates between 58°C and 60°C with 80-100% CPU usage. That was only two hours of video compression - oh, and two videos at once. This is not a gaming PC. It's a workhorse for computing, virtualization, film, music, and photography. So I had to take into account the huge cooling requirements. I was convinced I needed liquid cooling. All I heard from the techs and reviews on the web was you need to be prepared for liquidity this year. What a cop. To be honest I was surprised at the different results. AIO caused BSOD after BSOD due to thermal overload. I've been building PCs for years and have never had such constant freezes from Linux and BSODS from Windoze. I thought I had lost the ability to troubleshoot. I built both computers from scratch twice. I tested AIO twice on both AMD systems. It turns out that Thermaltake just isn't telling the truth about the heat dissipation of their new AIOs and their problematic software. Get this Cooler Master for your new AM4 and TR4 system if you don't want to mess around with liquid. The glowing coolant pipes are damn good to look at. But so is this twin tower monster twin RGB fan behemoth. PLUS this device costs a third of a comparable AIO.