How an AMD Ryzen Cooler is Made | Factory Tour (Cooler Master)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ค. 2024
- We follow the lifecycle of making an AMD Wraith cooler in Shenzhen & Dongguan, China, as manufactured by Cooler Master. Includes tooling, fin stamping, & more.
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AMD and Intel both have their CPU stock coolers made largely by Cooler Master, responsible also for the new "Wraith" and "Spire" series coolers for Ryzen processors. Cooler Master also makes many stock GPU coolers, and so some of the machines we look at in this video will technically be stamping GPU coolers, but they're also used for CPU cooler manufacturing. Each part of the line makes parts on a one-part-per-day basis, typically, so we'd have to be in the same factory for a week or so to see each cooler part made for a single SKU. The process remains the same regardless of what's being made, though.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - AMD Ryzen Stock Coolers
02:03 - Starting with Fin Stack Tooling
05:05 - PCB Manufacturing
07:14 - Heat Pipes
08:05 - Making the Fans
09:37 - The Final Assembly Line
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I think after all the factory tour, you can include a segment into your regular GN news. What have you learned about manufacturing process and the tech industry (from the money-making perspective)
Thank you GN for this content, its been really fascinating to see it all, and truely educational. It really makes you think a lot about how things do what they do, and be more impressed by humans ingenuity to create such amazing things!
How are the fins and heat pipe solder together? Is there a special process?
4:03 The control stick is tied with a blue rope to the ring. I really hope this is not an automatic check for defective products ... :D
So there is such a job as “RGB Tester” lol
Requirements: not colorblind.
or epileptic
😁
@@avengersoul The real question is, do they even get paid enough to afford a PC?
@@spidermain i can assure you that there are people doing a more shity job and get paid way less ...lets just say most people who build ferraris will never afford one ..
I worked at a company that did such thing...It drives u insane after 2 months...Lasted 4 months there and then I qwit...You do this 8 h a day and work in 3 shifts. And that is all you do. Boring af!
Shout out to all the workers that make the products we take for granted 谢谢
i'm more concerned about them not working for a slave wage and being safe from harmful chemicals and other stuff, BUT u can bet your ass, that all the factories GN is allowed to enter are very safe, because no one would let media in the dodgy ones :D
cataria pega Very safe? This is China you’re talking about.
@@ShawFujikawa i guess safe enough for them not to go nuclear like that famous 2015 incident.
不客气
@@cataria3903 you sure you know what youre talking about? China doesnt care if media doesnt like their shit or not. in fact, china has their own media so they wouldnt give a fuck. i dont understand your comment at all lmfao
I guess you could say Cooler Master....has a lot of fans.
Doh!
*golf clap* 👏
Okay, dad.
haha. nice one
Badum tsss
I hope you would be allowed to visit and film in a modern semiconductors factory.
Unlikely, but we will certainly try!
Bruh, there will be too many cencor because that might leak some patent.
@@GamersNexus Yeah, they're such sterile environments I bet it would be hard, but damn it would be cool
@@GamersNexus Global Foundries at Malta NY or Dresden Germany would be top notch :)
Gamers Nexus please do alot of these factory tours of computer parts.. i feel like your channel would blow up more than it already does.
I have to say that I'm really loving these factory tours. It's a great addition to your channel.
o7
go back and watch their ones from a few years ago if you like these and want more.
i just love seeing how there really is no difference between that factory and american factories.
@@craiglortie8483 romanian aswell, the only thing that is missing is the extremely loud sound
o7
Agreed. Really interesting and great to see!
Damn, Cooler Master is a much larger company than I originally thought.
Also alot less automated then I thought
They've been at the game much longer so were able to clinch this market, kinda funny when you see people argue about which fans are better and they are made in the same plant by the same people with the same parts lol.
@@wolfchacer0139 Which fans exactly are people arguing about?
their largest market share is in Asia dude,
@@DushanCH You will not find a component in the entire world that hasn't been touched with bare hands or thrown at some point before packaging. You clearly haven't ever set foot in a factory and know nothing about manufacturing.
Im never eating a cooler again
Wot mate
@@hasnihossainsami8375 It's a reference to "How X food is made" videos, and then people on the comments think it's nasty for some reason
Edit: auto corrector
oh no
Hold up
Underated
11:38 Ah, it's great to see Windows XP still kicking around in 2019.
windows XP is pretty much standard for factory.... Industrial machines where build around windows XP and windows is a nice middle ground for older hardware and newer hardware..... we still use windows XP professional on our office PC's ... cause we have lot of older equipments that does not support anything newer ...
Basically what kuntal Ghosh is saying is that upgrading would break everything and it's easier to stay on xp.
@@thepope2412 yup... upgrading that will also mean u have to upgrade those decade old hardware ... and it's just not worth the hassle and money unless things breaks or needs an upgrade for newer machines! ... , our office is in a closed loop with the storage server and 3 PC's ... there is no access to internet !! so no fear of virus!! .....
until they are not connected to internet directly through that computers with windows XP, and there's some Linux based system between internet and those computers, they are safe, and they can continue on XP even another 100 years.
As a computer technician, it is not uncommon for customers needing us to work on old computers like Windows 95 up to Vista.
You want to know haw a intel stock cooler is made? First you go to your local grocery store, then you buy a tin can and cut a few lines in it. After that you strap a jet engine to it and call it a day.
Seriously though I am loving these viseos. So cool to see how all these products are being made by my favorite tech channel!
sawyer Don't forget the toothpaste! :D
peter geary With extra strong thermal insulation formula!
@@DrakkarCalethiel I see you are a man of taste haha
peter geary hahaha
jet engines pull in 5 cubic meters of air everyone millisecond it is probably a 1945 fan
You guys didn't cover bonding the heatpipes to the coldplate or installing the aluminum finstack at all :(
Ditto, this. Thought I missed it and I went back and double-checked.
Yea it just went from heres how heatpipes are made to heres a completed cooler. I was looking forward to seeing how the finstack is made
Guessing that process wasn't happening the day they were visiting. Definitely would have enjoyed seeing that too.
maybe business secret so they cant film the process
here you go:
th-cam.com/video/BBB2rChWxmE/w-d-xo.html
As an german tool maker I really loved the part about the tools. Good explantion for laymans but also suprising facts for people who know about tools. I thought the factory of one of the biggest players in the game looks clean like an surgery room :O This stamping section looks like an all the german backyard companies we´ve got here :D
As a mechanical Designer, I loved that part as well. It's really cool stuff.
That's how they make a perfectly fine thermal paste patch. I thought it was a machine but it's handmade. Awesome!
This is one of the best factory tours, really loved seeing how the AMD coolers are made. Thanks for all this content GN Team.
damn AMD is spending a lot of money doing this, it's pretty awesome putting these alongside their already cheap chips :)
HUGE ANIME BREASTS
@@KokoroKatsura lol what?! LMFAO
Yeah but with the newer cpus (3600 and forward) they don't use cooler master as a fan manufacturer anymore to save even more money.... Sigh. The 2700X was the last one to have an ACTUAL cooler master cooler with it.
Sad pikachu face.
@@PhillipLemmon when did this happen? what about the wraith prisms? are they still made by cooler master? my 3700x came with a wraith prism...
A C no longer from cooler master. made a lot cheaper
I really appreciate the effort to be as non-misleading as possible. The annotations at the corner indicating what footage belongs to what factory aren't extremely necessary, but you guys still put your work into it. Love this content, btw.
I've really loved this updated factory tour series. It's like watching "How It's Made" but actually useful for PC enthusiasts. I also meant to thank the editor for bumping the audio when TIN was speaking in previous videos - very channels do that sort of thing when it's needed.
These factory tours are amazing!! Really hope we get to see more of these in the future 😊
Not many more factories to tour. He has been in like 2/3 of them now haha.
I always just assumed it was a sweat shop in China but this makes sense
This is wholesome content. Very interesting. Thank you!
Your factory tours have really taken things to another level, in the past few weeks. It's refreshing to see unique content. Kudos to Steve & the GN team. Appreciate all your hard work. Great videos!
That was wicked to see. I love the lake of solder you guys showed or the little pools they use for convenience. It's so intriguing seeing these types of videos, it really grounds you. It also gives a great perspective about the items you have at home. Also how faulty items can go through all these steps and still wind up DOA sometimes. Thank you again for another behind the scenes factory video! Great job!!
Dang that factory has so much unanchored items, it's not even lagging.
What?
Thanks for this video, I feel that the improvements and made with ryzen we're revolutionary not only because of the architecture of ryzen but the box coolers were next level and are legit, this makes ryzen the price to performance go-to complete package, the improvements to cooling/acoustics from the old coolers was next level. Sadly Intel box coolers haven't stepped up yet.
These tours are great! I am however always amazed by how much manual labour there are still involved in manufactoring.. makes you appreciate the effort more!
Great Content. Giving me nostalgia for when I used to work for Arrow Electronics and visited some of our CM's. Always like to see parts I sold being put onto boards. Keep up the good work tech jesus.
I love all these tour videos, so cool seeing what all goes in to producing even "simple" stuff.
And what's shown here is just the final assembly phase of a much larger and longer process! Each of the individual parts that go into a cooler have their own research & design & production processes and complicated supply chains of materials.
It's truly humbling to try to grasp the almost oceanic depth of knowledge and effort that goes into the construction of something more complex, like a smartphone for example. We live in an age of miracles, but somehow manage to take it all for granted.
Love those videos. No bullshit, just straight to the point. Thank you for respecting my time. As a thanks, I didn't skip through the ad.
I have been really enjoying these factory tours you have been doing. It's really good to see my investments in your store items has been put to great use! HUGE thank you GN team!
The footage and editing in this series is outstanding. Great work GN!
Ya know, I've been watching your videos for around a year by now. I don't have a great use for a modmat at the moment, but I think I'm finally ready to get onboard with patreon, I've been putting it off for a while now but I finally want to support the channel (and get to watch patrons ask GN) You made me more interested in the workings of computer hardware and changed my general outlook in life to one that's more... Objective. Thanks tech Jesus
Thank you for your ongoing viewership and support!
I did not know Cooler Master were this big now, they've expand so much.
They've been making on this scale for over 10 years....they are a huge business
Great videos, love the factory tours and in depth analysis of all steps in the component manufacturing process. Great job Gamers Nexus !
This entire series of behind the scene have been fascinating! Incredible job with these videos,Thank ya Tech Jesus!
Yaskawa robots! Good to see the robots I program on a daily basis are featured in a Gamers Nexus video!
You guys touring around is so cool. It's practically like the show, "How it's made", but for pc parts. Just missing some funky background music.
Gonna have to say it's really satisfying seeing the heatsinks and fans and everything come together in something so some.
These videos really help the channel's overall editorial quality.
Steve, there is only so much good content I can take!!!
Lake of solder? Louis Rossman would be in heaven!
"The bigger the glob, the bigger the job!" lol
thank you for this detailed report on how they made my drink coaster since thats about all its been good for!
Cool to see how this is made, I had sort of an idea how, but it's good to see it in detail, awesome, thanks to the factory employee's for providing us with good and reliable parts! 谢谢
"How it's made" combined with GN...yes please!
I just realized that this series of factories videos are really good for blind people. The amount of description in this video is really good.
I can only imagine what kind of effort goes into making videos like this. Just writing the script must be tough enough. First you have to understand everything going on in the process (possibly having it explained to you by someone who doesn't have English as a first language), then you have to explain it in a way that people can actually understand. GN has done a really great job on these factory tours.
I love how the safety shield comes down after the press has already engaged @10:04. lol
Safety....... First..!???
I think that shield is not for protecting workers hand, but for protecting their eyes, if the press break the parts and shrapnel flying out, the shield can block it.
That's just to cleanly cut your hand off after it's been crushed, saves a trip to the ER, and you can keep working with the other hand.
Love those factort tours! I'm really surprized how clean those lines are. Some I've seen are just beyond dirty!
Some factory have level for example the higher end product are cleaner, and the cheap product might have less QC factory
It's not indian factory
It amazes me that stuff doesn't cost more when I watch how complex it is to manufacture something even relatively simple that we all take for granted
Love your factory tours. Amazing how these things are made
Best stock coolers. Really adds to Ryzens value package. They look good and can handle mild overclocks. Intel has the mindset of. Well we are giving you the best CPU what more do you want?
Except they don't even give you the best CPU...
0:29 the protective screen goes down after the press lol
It is also using 2-handed start as well as a light curtain, so there's no way to trap your hands.
@@Species1571 _your_ hands, not someone else's...
@@Lishtenbird The light curtain doesn't care who the hands belong to, it will still stop the machine.
@@Species1571 If there's a light curtain, why have the protective screen - for if the other one fails? Well, it already did.
@@Lishtenbird No it didn't she had to press both buttons. Best guess, the light curtain was retrofitted to satisfy those pesky health and safety regulations. The screen is probably more to prevent any parts from popping out of the machine, and I agree it should really be down before the press makes contact, probably an air pressure regulator needs adjusting.
Fascinating video. My grandmother used to work in a factory somewhere in California, I want to say Hughes Aircraft, soldering things by hand. With the surface mount technique it's amazing how much you can pack into the same space now on a PCB.
The tours are great to watch! Thanks for doing these.
0:27 The safety glass door closes AFTER the ram of the press moved down. So first squeeze the finger in the press and then the arm in the glass door.
Just Videos - The plexi isn’t for safety. And there is no way to trap your hands. Both buttons have to be pressed to activate it and there is a light curtain.
I thought Intel coolers were made in a hut in Africa.
Intel still makes coolers?
@@kevadu if you can call that trash as cooler
They have windmills cooling their processor
They were for a while but the production methods proved to be higher than specification required and consequently the costs couldn’t be justified. Now they’re produced in a special school for children with spatial learning needs, where the recycled aluminium drinks cans are bent into shape using tonka toys. Intel are very happy with the QC and final product 👍🏻
Be happy for what you have, an African could've eaten those aluminum shavings.
Wow, thank you for the fascinating demonstration of surface mount production!
I appreciate how well composed all of you videos are. Thank you.
A mod mat that will actually fit on my desk =o
Intel coolers are the metal shavings that are left over.
I've always found pick and place machines amazing.
Great content Steve, thank you for all you hard work.
I want to get my hands on one of those thermal paste templates.
You can make it yourself maybe :)
I can't believe that cooler master is manufacturing Intel stock coolers. I rewinded the video two times at the beginning to make sure I heard right.
INTEL OBVIOUSLY GIVE THEM LIKE 60 cent for every cooler that’s why there so shit, amd coolers probably only cost like 5 bucks every cooler also and a noctua cooler probably only cost like 12 bucks at most
This series has been great. It's nice to see all the people who make all the stuff I buy.
Fascinating to look at my cooler while seeing the exact process used to create it.
I'm feeling a déjà vu watching this, were all/most of these videos actually a single big factory that produces many different things for Cooler Master? xD
Ha, no, we drove all over the place. We probably visited about 12-14 factories in a period of 5 days. This one just recaps some of the other processes for people who may have missed them. More coming up!
@@GamersNexus Quality content man, keep it coming.
@@GamersNexus How It's Made GN Edition 😃
Imagine going through so much work to make a stock cooler for it to just sit on a shelf and not be used cuz someone use a third party cooler
As long as AMD's check clears.
Ebay is full of OEM Prism Coolers (I bought one there to have pretty lights to put on my 3600), presumably after some guy who thinks he's such a hardcore overclocker that he needs water cooling gets and AIO to put on his 3700X.
@@mdcastle i bought a prism to replace a crappy stealth
Amd stock cooler is basicly highly sophisticated junk
I didn't like how loud the stock amd cooler was so I got an aio lol.
I'm loving this series of factory tours
This is awesome i always anted to see the large scale manufacturing of different PC components. Defiantly leaving a like.
Stock Coolers are not Free
They just include the coolers in the price
That's why I prefer bulk since I already own better coolers.
Well someone tell that to the sellers that put tray chips at the same or higher price as the boxed ones.
Intel cooler tour when? Oh wait. You are better off blowing on the cpu.
Intel coolers are made from the parts of rejected AMD coolers lmao
I Saw a HP with Intel and cooler master
What's the point of overpaying for a bundled decent generic cooler when you can buy a specific third-party good one?
@@Lishtenbird heres the thing about the AMD ones, its not a shitty generic one, its a pretty high perf CoolerMaster cooler, you do not need a third party
hey man this is AMAZING!! very good stuff.
This is by far my favorite tour!!! Love the content guys!!!!!!
*Meanwhile at Intel* : Ok, so to make our stock fans you have to put the fan on top of copper and hope it sticks
I wonder when stock coolers will switch to the tower config like the Hyper 212 etc.
Coolers like the Hyper 212 will never become stock coolers mainly because they are just too large. The reason AMD and Intel have been using low-profile coolers is because they assume that not everyone has an ATX mid-size tower. They are designed to fit into a chassis that don't have much room between the motherboard and case wall/panel.
Intel did made a tower style cooler for their X79 platform.
But there are draw back for tower style coolers as well.
For example the down flow coolers also ensures that there is some airflow towards the VRM area of motherboards.
Also the tower coolers are taller and might have clearance issues in some cases.
Threadripper use tower stock cooler.
Maybe the best tour yet. Awesome Steve
So much work only for an cooler. Respect 👍
0:19 that person threw the part -.-
If he/she was breaking parts on a regular basis they would probably stop. When youre doing a task a thousand times a day, a quarter of a second makes a difference.
4:01 they put "charms" on these machines (red paper with chinese writings)
This is to prevent them to have mind on their own and starts eradicating human beings.
Lol it says "开工大吉 (開工大吉)" which means "best wishes for starting to work". They probably never take those charms off since the first day these machines started to work.
@@user-bw8ny3qg7i Arbeit macht frei!
@@mwnciboo Exactly what I thought
Why is this so satisfying to watch and listen to??
I have total respect for the workers in automated factories, imagine having to verify and do the same thing for hours a day for years, patience and dedication is a must.
Title reads “How an AMD ryzen cooler is made”. Content reads - rambling...does a tool cost 10s, 100s or millions dollars? I am lost within the first couple of minutes. If you don’t know the details don’t go into it. I love how the scale starts high then gradually rolls down to thousands dollars after about 3 sentences. Also didn’t see a single Wraith cooler being made from start and finish either. What’s going on?
We can all agree to thank AMD for giving very nice quality heatsinks with their CPUs. Thanks AMD, crap on your head intel.
Intel rarely supply hestsinks anymore.....they can't justify spending the extra $2 per each $500 CPU, because, got to make that money ;) /s (Just a hint of sarcasm lol)
They give zero fucks about coolers as much as they do using toothpaste on their chips, but hey Intel FTW right ?
yup hukn
Love Cooler Master. Always top notch stuff from them. Would be neat to see them venture into different territory, like producing RAM, or even SSDs.
That's insane productivity
The "tooling" is actually refered to as a Die set. Source: I make die sets
I'm a toolmaker as well and I found that section extremely cringey. "Made by machine operators drilling holes in metal plates," isn't technically wrong, but is painfully misleading.
@@andrewg9476 Well it is. He forgot about milling. Yeah he wanted to lay it down quick and simply so we have to forgive him.
11:38 Building coolers for high-performance AMD CPUs yet still using Windows XP...
Why change something that already works well?
Not connected to Internet, and not doing anything but that one task. Probably comes embedded from the testing tool.
Tbh they don’t need anything more how ever they should upgrade lol
Huge props to AMD who cares about costumers and invests some money to give us a high quality cooler (not to mention a proper and quality soldering on their processors). You gotta love these details man.
Once again I'm loving these factory videos. I'm heading to your store right now to pay for your trip (partially).
This is the perfect example for you dont search it but you love it👌🏼
Loving these production-side videos! My machinist heart smiles. I guess that means I need to buy more stuff from the store :D
wow, this actually made me respect cooler master so much more.
Its amazing that they allow someone like noctua to have the top dog air cooler. Customer perception of the company would be completely different if they aimed market leadership.
They obviously have the skills to do so.
Mr Burke, thanks for a cool tour!
Pretty fascinating for a cooler that ends up just going back in the original box!
If anyone is curious. The tooling for stamps and pressings that are being shown after the 2 minute mark is called tool and die. Designing, making, and fixing those is a really cool job to do and is very accessible to anyone interested. It pays well too.
Ordering a mod mat RN. Keep the factory tours coming!
Factory tours are the best idea ever!! dont stop!!!!
oh wow now that was really cool and interesting! thanks for the good explaining!
I NEED MORE OF THESE
Seriously can't get enough of these
you're spoiling us with all these factory tours!