AMD To Stop Bundling Wraith Spire And Prism Coolers With These Ryzen CPUs

The impending autumn is the season of harvest, and the reaper has come for some of AMD's Wraith coolers. Specifically, the company is done with producing its Wraith Prism and Wraith Spire coolers that it introduced with its second-generation Ryzen CPUs, and will start bundling more of its high-end CPUs without any included cooler at all.

As of August 1st, both Prism and Spire coolers were officially marked as EOL, according to small notices in AMD's product pages for a number of CPUs. The Ryzen 9 7900 and Ryzen 7 7700 no longer include a cooler in the box, while the Ryzen 7 8700G, Ryzen 5 3400G, and possibly other similar models will ship with a standard AMD SR1 "Wraith Stealth" cooler instead.

This move that may have poor optics, but in our opinion it doesn't have much impact. When talking about the 7000-series chips, we ...