okay so today I'm going to be doing an unboxing of The Cooler Master V8 CPU
heat sink it is a 180 WT cooling solution which is basically overpowered
for all but the most overclocked CPUs so it's going to be able to keep you cool
etc etc you should experience the power of V8 it is compatible with core i7 Core
i5 core I3 and am3 and remember that anything that is am3 compatible is also
by extension compatible with am2 and am2 plus because they all use the same
mounting hole so there actually no there is more on the box let's actually have a
closer look at the box here so Cooler Master VH horsepower any high
performance CPU four separate modular sets of aluminum fins create a large
heat dissipation surface eight heat pipes maximize heat transfer so that's
probably where the V8 comes from it has a center mounted 120 mm fan which I've
always thought is kind of a smart way to do the design and I'll show you that when we get inside okay and then you've
also got quiet operation at 17 to 21 DB
I mean those are basically the only important things about a CPU heat sink
uh the looks the heat dissipation and the noise level I mean I don't know
maybe there's something other than that actually you know what no that's not the only thing one really important thing is
that did I just cut the seals on this side and then try to open it from the
other side why is this not working I will have to find out how to get ah
there we go okay one of the other really important things is the mounting system
and you can tell when the manufacturer is cheaped out on the mounting system
this does not look to be a case of cheaping out on the mounting system you
can see that all of these parts are made of like quality looking steel okay so
you can't expect any of this to like Bend or anything like that okay so you
can see we've got a multi back plate here this back plate is set up for
am2 actually it looks like it even has 939 holes so I'm not I'm not sure how
many people would be mounting something like this on socket 939 but there you go
and then you've got lga775 1156 and 1366 so that's how you
get compatibility for all the different Intel core processors there's some kind
of cheesy looking thermal compound that I probably wouldn't recommend using and
some tools just in case you need tools to install this heat sink awesome let's
get to the more interesting part and that is the V8 itself which is huge okay
uh users manual actually there we should talk about this first too so Cooler
Master seems to be including wow a pretty detailed user manual showing you
all of the parts that should come with your V8 and giving you step-by-step
instructions in about 342 different languages including English a bunch of
stuff I can't read German uh Spanish and French okay awesome it looks to be about
a six step five to six step installation
procedure so that's pretty straightforward I guess and then on the
back wow even more languages cool so
anyone living in any one of those countries can install this sing assuming
that they can read okay then we have the warranty
information which is also in a billion in one different languages 2-year
warranty there you go okay so here is
the V8 coming out of its clam shell it feels kind of like the Darth Vader
helmet but there is tape and I couldn't see it so now I have cut the tape and
there we go now we are extracting it from the cooler you know what this isn't
actually as big as I was expecting it to be it looked like it was going to be
like way huger than this okay so let's have a look first from the side so you
can see that as they as advertised it has four separate heat
finin segmented parts that are all connected by heat pipes to the base I'm
not sure what the actual technical cooling advantages are of that but there
must be something Cooler Master has been doing this for a very long time okay so
then you've got your 25mm fan in the middle now the 25 mil fan is blowing
this way so that means that any air coming in from this side is cooling the
base and then the air gets heated up a little bit and then gets blown out the
other side and is also cooling the base so they're able to make use of not only
the push air coming out of the fan but also the pull air coming into the fan
from the other side I think this is really smart and we're seeing a lot more heat sinks these days coming out with
designs like this from the top and I mean this comes down to Aesthetics
personally I really like this I think that it's very stylish looking you got
your Cooler Master logo with a shiny
V8 letters a shiny letters whatever
anyway it looks kind of cool it looks kind of like an engine component or some
kind of like high-end sort of feature
cool thing okay I'm sort of lacking English today but I think you get the
point and then let's get down to the base itself so you can see we have eight
count them 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight discrete
heat pipes so it comes out to like 16 coming out pretty much okay carrying
heat up to the taller parts of the heat sink and then we have you can do the
obligatory shiny shot oh I can't hold
this in one hand like that I don't have a good grip okay there we go so there we
can show how shiny the base is really the shininess is not always relative
relevant because the most important thing is how flat it is because flatness
is what's going to give you your heat conductivity not shininess so thank you
for checking out my oh no no not okay we
have a sleeved black four pin fan connector here so that's a pwm fan
inside that's kind of neat to see cuz most motherboards do support it these
days and then I finally figured out what this PCI bracket in the mounting
hardware box is for low high so you can actually take this off somehow there's
probably some way to do it and you put this switch into the back of your
computer and you can adjust the dial here for how fast you want the fan to
run that's kind of nice to have and it's kind of a cool looking shiny switch
thank you for checking out my unboxing of The Cooler Master V8