Cooler Master V8 Heatpipe CPU Heatsink Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,230 words · ~6 min read
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okay so today I'm going to be doing an unboxing of The Cooler Master V8 CPU
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heat sink it is a 180 WT cooling solution which is basically overpowered
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for all but the most overclocked CPUs so it's going to be able to keep you cool
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etc etc you should experience the power of V8 it is compatible with core i7 Core
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i5 core I3 and am3 and remember that anything that is am3 compatible is also
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by extension compatible with am2 and am2 plus because they all use the same
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mounting hole so there actually no there is more on the box let's actually have a
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closer look at the box here so Cooler Master VH horsepower any high
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performance CPU four separate modular sets of aluminum fins create a large
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heat dissipation surface eight heat pipes maximize heat transfer so that's
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probably where the V8 comes from it has a center mounted 120 mm fan which I've
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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
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also got quiet operation at 17 to 21 DB
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I mean those are basically the only important things about a CPU heat sink
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uh the looks the heat dissipation and the noise level I mean I don't know
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maybe there's something other than that actually you know what no that's not the only thing one really important thing is
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that did I just cut the seals on this side and then try to open it from the
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other side why is this not working I will have to find out how to get ah
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there we go okay one of the other really important things is the mounting system
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and you can tell when the manufacturer is cheaped out on the mounting system
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this does not look to be a case of cheaping out on the mounting system you
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can see that all of these parts are made of like quality looking steel okay so
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you can't expect any of this to like Bend or anything like that okay so you
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can see we've got a multi back plate here this back plate is set up for
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am2 actually it looks like it even has 939 holes so I'm not I'm not sure how
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many people would be mounting something like this on socket 939 but there you go
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and then you've got lga775 1156 and 1366 so that's how you
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get compatibility for all the different Intel core processors there's some kind
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of cheesy looking thermal compound that I probably wouldn't recommend using and
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some tools just in case you need tools to install this heat sink awesome let's
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get to the more interesting part and that is the V8 itself which is huge okay
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uh users manual actually there we should talk about this first too so Cooler
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Master seems to be including wow a pretty detailed user manual showing you
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all of the parts that should come with your V8 and giving you step-by-step
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instructions in about 342 different languages including English a bunch of
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stuff I can't read German uh Spanish and French okay awesome it looks to be about
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a six step five to six step installation
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procedure so that's pretty straightforward I guess and then on the
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back wow even more languages cool so
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anyone living in any one of those countries can install this sing assuming
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that they can read okay then we have the warranty
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information which is also in a billion in one different languages 2-year
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warranty there you go okay so here is
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the V8 coming out of its clam shell it feels kind of like the Darth Vader
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helmet but there is tape and I couldn't see it so now I have cut the tape and
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there we go now we are extracting it from the cooler you know what this isn't
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actually as big as I was expecting it to be it looked like it was going to be
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like way huger than this okay so let's have a look first from the side so you
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can see that as they as advertised it has four separate heat
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finin segmented parts that are all connected by heat pipes to the base I'm
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not sure what the actual technical cooling advantages are of that but there
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must be something Cooler Master has been doing this for a very long time okay so
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then you've got your 25mm fan in the middle now the 25 mil fan is blowing
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this way so that means that any air coming in from this side is cooling the
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base and then the air gets heated up a little bit and then gets blown out the
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other side and is also cooling the base so they're able to make use of not only
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the push air coming out of the fan but also the pull air coming into the fan
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from the other side I think this is really smart and we're seeing a lot more heat sinks these days coming out with
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designs like this from the top and I mean this comes down to Aesthetics
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personally I really like this I think that it's very stylish looking you got
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your Cooler Master logo with a shiny
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V8 letters a shiny letters whatever
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anyway it looks kind of cool it looks kind of like an engine component or some
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kind of like high-end sort of feature
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cool thing okay I'm sort of lacking English today but I think you get the
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point and then let's get down to the base itself so you can see we have eight
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count them 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight discrete
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heat pipes so it comes out to like 16 coming out pretty much okay carrying
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heat up to the taller parts of the heat sink and then we have you can do the
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obligatory shiny shot oh I can't hold
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this in one hand like that I don't have a good grip okay there we go so there we
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can show how shiny the base is really the shininess is not always relative
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relevant because the most important thing is how flat it is because flatness
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is what's going to give you your heat conductivity not shininess so thank you
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for checking out my oh no no not okay we
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have a sleeved black four pin fan connector here so that's a pwm fan
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inside that's kind of neat to see cuz most motherboards do support it these
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days and then I finally figured out what this PCI bracket in the mounting
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hardware box is for low high so you can actually take this off somehow there's
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probably some way to do it and you put this switch into the back of your
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computer and you can adjust the dial here for how fast you want the fan to
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run that's kind of nice to have and it's kind of a cool looking shiny switch
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thank you for checking out my unboxing of The Cooler Master V8