There is a pre applied thermal pad that needs to be carefully protected when it's removed from the plastic box.
I have an RGB header on my motherboard so I connected the LED on my Wraith Prism fan to the RGB system so that MSI's software could manage it as desired.
I use AMD's largest fan on a 65W CPU and the reason was more the glowing AMD than its improved thermal performance.
I fits in nice with the flowing EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 on the top of the card,