Today I'll be unboxing the V6 GT muscle
cooling 200 plus watt cooling solution from Cooler Master. This is an upgrade
to their V6 cooler obviously and it has
muscle unlike me. Okay, so it is
compatible with Intel LGA 1366 1156 and
775. It's also compatible with AMD AM3, AM2 and AM2 Plus. So it's compatible
with pretty much every modern socket out there right now. And by pretty much I do
mean all. You can see through there's like a engine looking thing and they've
got a picture of the cooler and you can see the cooler itself. But let's have a
quick look at what they have to say about it on the packaging outside. So
far, not a whole lot. Uh here it is.
Okay, so it is highly dense and tilted aluminum fins. So you can expect this to
perform best with a high uh static pressure fan. And I'm actually just
going to open it and then sort of talk about it while we're looking at the
product rather than talk about it while we're looking at the box. Ooh, this
looks cool, actually. Here it is. The V6
GT. Apparently perfect for case modders. Oh, I was half expecting this to be like
a fan speed controller, but it's not. That's a good idea, actually. I should
suggest that to somebody. Okay, so on either side, we've got Cooler Masters.
Uh oh, these are cool. So, this is one of their new series of fans. It has kind
of a a wave shape to the fins, which
apparently gives you better performance. Okay, so that's great. It includes their
their latest fans. You flip it over. So, you can see that the fins are indeed
quite densely packed and it does feature
six discrete heat pipes. Now, these are
relatively Oh, okay. No, that's okay. Never mind. As soon as I move this, that
fan will spin. There we go. So, it
features six discreet heat pipes. Now, they're not the thick heat pipes, but
there are so many of them, I can't imagine that it matters all of that
much. So, I'm just going to go ahead and sort of push all of the all of the
cables and stuff out of here so that I can get access to them and show you
exactly how to hook it up. So, it is a pushpull heat sink. That means that the
two fans, one is pushing air into the
heat sink, the other one is pulling air through. So when you've got a dense fin
arrangement, that is the best way to set it up because pushpull doesn't actually
increase the the CFM, the air flow. But what it does do is it increases the uh
the pressure. So it makes it so that it will slow down the air less to have
these fins in the way. So, we've got one adapter that basically takes a
PWM fan header on your motherboard,
preferably your CPU one, and then turns it into two PWM fans headers for the
cooler itself. So, it's sleeved, so you could kind of like tuck this one under
the heat sink like that, and then have it just come out with the the sleeved
bit and plug that right into your motherboard. So, it should look quite tidy. Then you've also got a Molex plug
here. And I'm at a bit of a loss for um
for what that would be for. Maybe we'll go find out after. Okay, let's have a
look at what we've got in terms of installation instructions and
accessories. So, we've got a users manual. Okay, that's quite small. Then
we have a warranty card, also quite small. And then we have a less small
users manual. Okay, that's in a bunch of
different languages. And it gives you a little picture guide of how to install
on all the different sockets, including Oh, this is good. You can actually
install the AM2 AM3 in either direction.
So, you're not married to one way or the other. Uh because remember, the AM3
mounting equipment is not square. So,
let's go ahead and sort of let's see if we can get these fans off. Actually, why
don't we do that first? I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that,
especially on camera. That seems like it might be quite challenging. Maybe it's
just a matter of pulling it out this way. No, that's not it. Okay, maybe it's
a matter of pressing this button. No, that button does something,
though. And we're going to find out what it does before this video is
through. Maybe that's what you're waiting for. Maybe that's why you're
still watching the video, so you can find out what exactly that button does.
I suspect it's something to do with lights. I'll say that much.
Okay. Apparently, it is not really designed to be easily taken apart.
Although, I suspect there is a way to take it apart, and it's not all that
difficult, but I'm just having trouble. So, why don't we do our our obligatory
finger shot thing here to see the shininess of the base, cuz everyone
likes that. If you don't like that, feel free to leave a comment and tell me you
don't care. Okay. Oh, you can tell right away that this is uh that this is
actually a um a convex base. So, that's
designed to get better mounting pressure against the CPU. There you go. You can
see that. Okay. Now, let's go over into my office where I have a power supply plugged into
uh the space under my desk. Okay, just follow me. So, my
office is two doors down from the cameraman, which you probably don't
already know, unless you're a super creeper. Uh, okay. So, I'm just going to
plug this power supply in, assuming I can find a a power plug to plug it in
with. You know, it's funny because I thought I had one. Ah, here we go. Okay.
So, we'll plug in this power supply. This is my random fan testing power
supply. It is jumpered on and I'm going to go ahead and plug this in and we'll
find out what it does. Okay, so far nothing. Now, we're
going to press the button. Oh, check it
out. It's red. So, there is a red LED light strip that
goes down the top of the V6 GT cooler.
Or blue. Oh, I like it. Purple or nothing? Red, blue, purple, or
nothing. I personally would choose this one cuz I think that looks sweet. And uh
you know what? I wouldn't I wouldn't be all that surprised at this point if the
fans are LED, too. But okay, here. Just
turn the camera off for a second. So, I couldn't find an adapter, so I had to
find a computer that's on. So, we're going to go ahead and plug in the four
pin PWM fan header that splits out into
two. And we're going to plug that in here. Now, this fan is running Linux, so
it is uh under full 100% load. So,
that's going to be the maximum fan speed, but it pushes quite a bit of air.
And what's interesting actually is that compared to um standing or sitting or
kneeling, whatever I'm doing, right in front of it like this, if you turn it to
the side, you actually hear it a lot less.
So, that's a pretty good thing about the shroud, I guess. Here, why don't I go
ahead and plug this in for the full effect? There we go. So, this is what it
would look like if you installed it in a computer, which maybe I'll do later.
Purple. Yeah. Okay. So, there. That's my video on the V6 GT from Cooler Master.
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