**A DIY Approach to Cooling a 3770K with a Wraith Cooler**

I recently took on the challenge of cooling a 3770K processor using a Wraith cooler that I had previously purchased for my brother's old PC. The idea was simple: attach the Wraith cooler to the 3770K and see how it performs.

The obvious question was why would you zip tie a Wraith cooler to a 3770K, especially when there are more conventional cooling solutions available. The reason is that all of these components come from a bit of a junkyard setup I did a couple of videos where I look at my brother's PC and a box of discarded components that he kind of left around so he only had the Wraith cooler he didn't have any other way to actually cool the 3770 so let's actually talk about the temperatures like how does it perform if you're in the desperate position where you need to zip tie a red cooler - and i7 how does it perform well really well I've been using this as a gaming setup for the last week and honestly it hasn't gone above 70 degrees while gaming and that's in a hot South African summer now I was using Hardware monitor and I wasn't using like a graph of temperatures I was just using the max temperature it reached during the whole like Delta match or whatever it was that I was playing and it didn't once go above 70 degrees Celsius but I decided that I needed to push it a little bit harder so I used I de 64 which I ran until I had five minutes of no temperature fluctuations which with an air cooler doesn't take very long and I was getting according to Ida 64 58 degrees under extreme load now the Hardware monitor that was running at the same time told me it didn't go about 78 degrees so it means there's a 20 degree Delta between what sixty-four says and what hardware monitor says so if you're comparing it to the gaming results then use the hardware kind of mark thing I'll put a graph over here so it makes it more clear what I'm talking about

Obviously the thing that you'd want to do is overcook the crap out of this fork or CPU and see how much thermal Headroom there is and I was gonna do that I was convinced that this was the 3770k so when I saw that Windows was kind of reading it as just a thirty seven seventy I honestly thought it was a read error so I kept trying to overclock it and stuff kept breaking and then I realized I actually like research the base clocks so this isn't an overclockable CPU so unfortunately we're not gonna be able to do that but if you go by the Ida sixty-four temperatures that I used while running this for an extended period of time 58 degrees on this CPU is not very high so it means there's quite a lot of room for overclocking and there should be quite a lot of room because this cooler is quite beefy and it's designed for an eight core CPU that runs at about four gigahertz so a four core CPU running at about four gigahertz which is the boot boost clock of the 3770 shouldn't provide any kind of issue if I could overclock it which I will add a later stage and I know it didn't work out quite the way I wanted it to because I couldn't overclock the CPU we couldn't see the absolute thermal threshold of the CPU on an old i7 the only reason that I didn't go out and buy a 3770k is because of its price point and it's gaming performance it's a very desirable CPU in South Africa on the second-hand market so they're all sold out and is just like posts everywhere of people looking for them so I knew I wasn't gonna be able to find one and with that it brings me to the end of another video

I have Instagram and Twitter so you can go and follow those I'll have them linked in the description below my Twitter account is actually a really good way of being notified of new videos because sometimes YouTube takes its time on that one and also go check out the rest of this playlist that this video is in it's called Brahms random box of PC crap almost forgot it there there are videos leading up to this video and there's also a build coming soon where I put this PC into an interesting case that I build myself hint hint and yes if you liked the video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next one bye bye

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso I've done a bad thing I've taken this stock AMD Wraith cooler and I've macgyvered it on to an Intel CPU now there obviously isn't any official mounting hardware for the Wraith cooler on the Intel platform because why would there be so I had to get quite creative about how to mount it and honestly the temperatures are really impressive but I did run into a little bit of a very dava does tech stuff snag when it comes to the actual thermal testing for the for the cooler but first let's have a look at how we actually got the cooler onto the cpu now let's throw back the pasta table it's struggling to zip-tie a Wraith cooler to an Intel i7 3770k or is it the cave Ariat okay so now let's get to mounting the CPU cooler now it's actually better to get the zip ties ready initially so that you can actually you can actually just place the cooler down so what I'm doing here is I'm leading this zip tie through and then making sure that they're lining up I put this bit through because obviously need more length here and then there we go they're starting and we're gonna cut this bit off like that and then when you put it down you work it through the hole here the here and then just like that oh yeah and then just like that you've got a longer a bit of zip tie available and I'm going to do the same on this side and then we can start getting the cooler over here attached to the CPU so when you have the zip ties ready you take the CPU cooler and you line it up like this because that actually gives you room for RAM and so on and then you place it down on the CPU in the way that the cooler should go and then when you're satisfied with it actually being lined up properly you run the zip ties and you're gonna have to around to this side I'm actually going to use the heat pipes to secure the cooler to secure the cooler down so you run this through here and then super noisy dude on a motorbike so I'm just tightening them quite loose initially and then I'm going to tighten both sides and then we can tighten them down and see what happens you stop trying to push the camera under my arm and this is as tight as they can go okay so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna extend them off yeah so this is obviously the most polite way to treat hardware then we can do the same on this side and then hopefully we've got a well secured CPU cooler to a motherboard I actually think that went better than I thought it would yeah so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut off these bits and then we're we're done hopefully the thermal performance isn't gonna be too bad it's actually fairly secure to be honest all right now the only thing I hope is that the zip ties don't melt that'll be a bit of a disaster but the thing is I don't know how hot these cool these pipes get and it's not going to go above boiling so I don't think it should melt I'm actually very surprised with how neat this has happened how neatly this has been done I'm quite interested to see the temperatures hopefully it doesn't explode in a ball of fire but I think it looks pretty great now the obvious question is why would you zip tie a wraith cooler to a 3770k and or not kay and the reason is because all of these components come from a bit of a junkyard set up I did a couple of videos where I look at my brother's PC and a box of discarded components that he kind of left around so he only had the Wraith cooler he didn't have any other way to actually cool the 3770 so let's actually talk about the temperatures like how does it perform if you're in the desperate position where you need to zip tie a red cooler - and i7 how does it perform well really well I've been using this as a gaming setup for the last week and honestly it hasn't gone above 70 degrees while gaming and that's in a hot South African summer now I was using Hardware monitor and I wasn't using like a graph of temperatures I was just using the max temperature it reached during the whole like Delta match or whatever it was that I was playing and it didn't once go above 70 degrees Celsius but I decided that I needed to push it a little bit harder so I used I de 64 which I ran until I had five minutes of no temperature fluctuations which with an air cooler doesn't take very long and I was getting according to Ida 64 58 degrees under extreme load now the hardware monitor that was running at the same time told me it didn't go about 78 degrees so it means there's a 20 degree Delta between what - sixty-four says and what hardware monitor says so if you're comparing it to the gaming results then use the hardware kind of mark thing I'll put a graph over here so it makes it more clear what I'm talking about now obviously the thing that you'd want to do is overcook the crap out of this fork or CPU and see how much thermal Headroom there is and I was gonna do that I was convinced that this was the 3770k so when I saw that Windows was kind of reading it as just a thirty seven seventy I honestly thought it was a read error so I kept trying to overclock it and stuff kept breaking and then I realized I actually like research the base clocks so this isn't an overclockable CPU so unfortunately we're not gonna be able to do that but if you go by the Ida sixty-four temperatures that I used while running this for an extended period of time 58 degrees on this CPU is not very high so it means there's quite a lot of room for overclocking and there should be quite a lot of room because this cooler is quite beefy and it's designed for an eight core CPU that runs at about four gigahertz so a four core CPU running at about four gigahertz which is the boot boost clock of the 3770 shouldn't provide any kind of issue if I could overclock it which I will add a later stage and I know it didn't work out quite the way I wanted it to because I couldn't overclock the CPU we couldn't see the absolute thermal threshold of the CPU on an old i7 the only reason that I didn't go out and buy a 3770k is because of its price point and it's gaming performance it's a very desirable CPU in South Africa on the second-hand market so they're all sold out and is just like posts everywhere of people looking for them so I knew I wasn't gonna be able to find one and with that it brings me to the end of another video I have Instagram and Twitter so you can go and follow those I'll have them linked in the description below my Twitter account is actually a really good way of being notified of new videos because sometimes YouTube takes its time on that one and also go check out the rest of this playlist that this video is in it's called Brahms random box of PC crap almost forgot it there there are videos leading up to this video and there's also a build coming soon where I put this PC into an interesting case that I build myself hint hint and yes if you liked the video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next one bye byeso I've done a bad thing I've taken this stock AMD Wraith cooler and I've macgyvered it on to an Intel CPU now there obviously isn't any official mounting hardware for the Wraith cooler on the Intel platform because why would there be so I had to get quite creative about how to mount it and honestly the temperatures are really impressive but I did run into a little bit of a very dava does tech stuff snag when it comes to the actual thermal testing for the for the cooler but first let's have a look at how we actually got the cooler onto the cpu now let's throw back the pasta table it's struggling to zip-tie a Wraith cooler to an Intel i7 3770k or is it the cave Ariat okay so now let's get to mounting the CPU cooler now it's actually better to get the zip ties ready initially so that you can actually you can actually just place the cooler down so what I'm doing here is I'm leading this zip tie through and then making sure that they're lining up I put this bit through because obviously need more length here and then there we go they're starting and we're gonna cut this bit off like that and then when you put it down you work it through the hole here the here and then just like that oh yeah and then just like that you've got a longer a bit of zip tie available and I'm going to do the same on this side and then we can start getting the cooler over here attached to the CPU so when you have the zip ties ready you take the CPU cooler and you line it up like this because that actually gives you room for RAM and so on and then you place it down on the CPU in the way that the cooler should go and then when you're satisfied with it actually being lined up properly you run the zip ties and you're gonna have to around to this side I'm actually going to use the heat pipes to secure the cooler to secure the cooler down so you run this through here and then super noisy dude on a motorbike so I'm just tightening them quite loose initially and then I'm going to tighten both sides and then we can tighten them down and see what happens you stop trying to push the camera under my arm and this is as tight as they can go okay so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna extend them off yeah so this is obviously the most polite way to treat hardware then we can do the same on this side and then hopefully we've got a well secured CPU cooler to a motherboard I actually think that went better than I thought it would yeah so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut off these bits and then we're we're done hopefully the thermal performance isn't gonna be too bad it's actually fairly secure to be honest all right now the only thing I hope is that the zip ties don't melt that'll be a bit of a disaster but the thing is I don't know how hot these cool these pipes get and it's not going to go above boiling so I don't think it should melt I'm actually very surprised with how neat this has happened how neatly this has been done I'm quite interested to see the temperatures hopefully it doesn't explode in a ball of fire but I think it looks pretty great now the obvious question is why would you zip tie a wraith cooler to a 3770k and or not kay and the reason is because all of these components come from a bit of a junkyard set up I did a couple of videos where I look at my brother's PC and a box of discarded components that he kind of left around so he only had the Wraith cooler he didn't have any other way to actually cool the 3770 so let's actually talk about the temperatures like how does it perform if you're in the desperate position where you need to zip tie a red cooler - and i7 how does it perform well really well I've been using this as a gaming setup for the last week and honestly it hasn't gone above 70 degrees while gaming and that's in a hot South African summer now I was using Hardware monitor and I wasn't using like a graph of temperatures I was just using the max temperature it reached during the whole like Delta match or whatever it was that I was playing and it didn't once go above 70 degrees Celsius but I decided that I needed to push it a little bit harder so I used I de 64 which I ran until I had five minutes of no temperature fluctuations which with an air cooler doesn't take very long and I was getting according to Ida 64 58 degrees under extreme load now the hardware monitor that was running at the same time told me it didn't go about 78 degrees so it means there's a 20 degree Delta between what - sixty-four says and what hardware monitor says so if you're comparing it to the gaming results then use the hardware kind of mark thing I'll put a graph over here so it makes it more clear what I'm talking about now obviously the thing that you'd want to do is overcook the crap out of this fork or CPU and see how much thermal Headroom there is and I was gonna do that I was convinced that this was the 3770k so when I saw that Windows was kind of reading it as just a thirty seven seventy I honestly thought it was a read error so I kept trying to overclock it and stuff kept breaking and then I realized I actually like research the base clocks so this isn't an overclockable CPU so unfortunately we're not gonna be able to do that but if you go by the Ida sixty-four temperatures that I used while running this for an extended period of time 58 degrees on this CPU is not very high so it means there's quite a lot of room for overclocking and there should be quite a lot of room because this cooler is quite beefy and it's designed for an eight core CPU that runs at about four gigahertz so a four core CPU running at about four gigahertz which is the boot boost clock of the 3770 shouldn't provide any kind of issue if I could overclock it which I will add a later stage and I know it didn't work out quite the way I wanted it to because I couldn't overclock the CPU we couldn't see the absolute thermal threshold of the CPU on an old i7 the only reason that I didn't go out and buy a 3770k is because of its price point and it's gaming performance it's a very desirable CPU in South Africa on the second-hand market so they're all sold out and is just like posts everywhere of people looking for them so I knew I wasn't gonna be able to find one and with that it brings me to the end of another video I have Instagram and Twitter so you can go and follow those I'll have them linked in the description below my Twitter account is actually a really good way of being notified of new videos because sometimes YouTube takes its time on that one and also go check out the rest of this playlist that this video is in it's called Brahms random box of PC crap almost forgot it there there are videos leading up to this video and there's also a build coming soon where I put this PC into an interesting case that I build myself hint hint and yes if you liked the video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next one bye bye