Ryzen Threadripper is most likely going to draw quite some power and therefore generate a lot of heat, while at the same time offering serious performance. What felt like last week a rumor surfaced that AMD might bundle their Ryzen Threadripper chips with an all-in-one closed-loop cooler but unfortunately that got rejected rather quickly. Nevertheless there are still good news for owners of Asetek based AiO’s, since it appears that AMD and them have teamed-up, which is why the Ryzen Threadripper box will be shipped with retention kit.



So far only very few cooler makers mentioned to have already prepared mounting kits for AMD’s socket TR4, which will allow installing existing coolers on top of the massive Ryzen Threadripper chips.

Since Asetek is the OEM behind a number of closed-loop all-in-one water coolers there’s an equal number of all-in-one units benefitting from this step. Next to the company’s own brand Corsair with the H100iV2 and the H115i, EVGA with their CLC Series and NZXT with their Kraken series share the same mounting.

Although this is good news, we still won’t feel too comfortable using the current generation all-in-one coolers in combination with Ryzen Threadripper. The fact for that is simple: Ryzen Threadripper has a huge heatspreader and it looks like most coolers that are currently available don’t feature base plates that would cover the entire heatspreader. Whether this will have an influence on the temperatures remains to be tested. It’s for example possible that the two dies on the PCB will still be underneath the cooler’s base plate and the reason that the chip is as big as it is could simply be the result of the PCB 4094 contact patches.




Source: Gamer’s Nexus