Cooler Master V6 GT 6 Heatpipe CPU Heatsink Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,419 words · ~7 min read
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Today I'll be unboxing the V6 GT muscle
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cooling 200 plus watt cooling solution from Cooler Master. This is an upgrade
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to their V6 cooler obviously and it has
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muscle unlike me. Okay, so it is
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compatible with Intel LGA 1366 1156 and
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775. It's also compatible with AMD AM3, AM2 and AM2 Plus. So it's compatible
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with pretty much every modern socket out there right now. And by pretty much I do
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mean all. You can see through there's like a engine looking thing and they've
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got a picture of the cooler and you can see the cooler itself. But let's have a
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quick look at what they have to say about it on the packaging outside. So
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far, not a whole lot. Uh here it is.
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Okay, so it is highly dense and tilted aluminum fins. So you can expect this to
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perform best with a high uh static pressure fan. And I'm actually just
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going to open it and then sort of talk about it while we're looking at the
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product rather than talk about it while we're looking at the box. Ooh, this
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looks cool, actually. Here it is. The V6
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GT. Apparently perfect for case modders. Oh, I was half expecting this to be like
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a fan speed controller, but it's not. That's a good idea, actually. I should
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suggest that to somebody. Okay, so on either side, we've got Cooler Masters.
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Uh oh, these are cool. So, this is one of their new series of fans. It has kind
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of a a wave shape to the fins, which
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apparently gives you better performance. Okay, so that's great. It includes their
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their latest fans. You flip it over. So, you can see that the fins are indeed
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quite densely packed and it does feature
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six discrete heat pipes. Now, these are
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relatively Oh, okay. No, that's okay. Never mind. As soon as I move this, that
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fan will spin. There we go. So, it
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features six discreet heat pipes. Now, they're not the thick heat pipes, but
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there are so many of them, I can't imagine that it matters all of that
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much. So, I'm just going to go ahead and sort of push all of the all of the
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cables and stuff out of here so that I can get access to them and show you
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exactly how to hook it up. So, it is a pushpull heat sink. That means that the
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two fans, one is pushing air into the
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heat sink, the other one is pulling air through. So when you've got a dense fin
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arrangement, that is the best way to set it up because pushpull doesn't actually
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increase the the CFM, the air flow. But what it does do is it increases the uh
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the pressure. So it makes it so that it will slow down the air less to have
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these fins in the way. So, we've got one adapter that basically takes a
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PWM fan header on your motherboard,
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preferably your CPU one, and then turns it into two PWM fans headers for the
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cooler itself. So, it's sleeved, so you could kind of like tuck this one under
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the heat sink like that, and then have it just come out with the the sleeved
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bit and plug that right into your motherboard. So, it should look quite tidy. Then you've also got a Molex plug
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here. And I'm at a bit of a loss for um
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for what that would be for. Maybe we'll go find out after. Okay, let's have a
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look at what we've got in terms of installation instructions and
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accessories. So, we've got a users manual. Okay, that's quite small. Then
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we have a warranty card, also quite small. And then we have a less small
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users manual. Okay, that's in a bunch of
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different languages. And it gives you a little picture guide of how to install
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on all the different sockets, including Oh, this is good. You can actually
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install the AM2 AM3 in either direction.
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So, you're not married to one way or the other. Uh because remember, the AM3
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mounting equipment is not square. So,
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let's go ahead and sort of let's see if we can get these fans off. Actually, why
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don't we do that first? I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that,
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especially on camera. That seems like it might be quite challenging. Maybe it's
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just a matter of pulling it out this way. No, that's not it. Okay, maybe it's
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a matter of pressing this button. No, that button does something,
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though. And we're going to find out what it does before this video is
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through. Maybe that's what you're waiting for. Maybe that's why you're
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still watching the video, so you can find out what exactly that button does.
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I suspect it's something to do with lights. I'll say that much.
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Okay. Apparently, it is not really designed to be easily taken apart.
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Although, I suspect there is a way to take it apart, and it's not all that
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difficult, but I'm just having trouble. So, why don't we do our our obligatory
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finger shot thing here to see the shininess of the base, cuz everyone
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likes that. If you don't like that, feel free to leave a comment and tell me you
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don't care. Okay. Oh, you can tell right away that this is uh that this is
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actually a um a convex base. So, that's
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designed to get better mounting pressure against the CPU. There you go. You can
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see that. Okay. Now, let's go over into my office where I have a power supply plugged into
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uh the space under my desk. Okay, just follow me. So, my
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office is two doors down from the cameraman, which you probably don't
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already know, unless you're a super creeper. Uh, okay. So, I'm just going to
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plug this power supply in, assuming I can find a a power plug to plug it in
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with. You know, it's funny because I thought I had one. Ah, here we go. Okay.
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So, we'll plug in this power supply. This is my random fan testing power
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supply. It is jumpered on and I'm going to go ahead and plug this in and we'll
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find out what it does. Okay, so far nothing. Now, we're
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going to press the button. Oh, check it
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out. It's red. So, there is a red LED light strip that
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goes down the top of the V6 GT cooler.
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Or blue. Oh, I like it. Purple or nothing? Red, blue, purple, or
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nothing. I personally would choose this one cuz I think that looks sweet. And uh
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you know what? I wouldn't I wouldn't be all that surprised at this point if the
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fans are LED, too. But okay, here. Just
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turn the camera off for a second. So, I couldn't find an adapter, so I had to
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find a computer that's on. So, we're going to go ahead and plug in the four
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pin PWM fan header that splits out into
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two. And we're going to plug that in here. Now, this fan is running Linux, so
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it is uh under full 100% load. So,
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that's going to be the maximum fan speed, but it pushes quite a bit of air.
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And what's interesting actually is that compared to um standing or sitting or
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kneeling, whatever I'm doing, right in front of it like this, if you turn it to
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the side, you actually hear it a lot less.
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So, that's a pretty good thing about the shroud, I guess. Here, why don't I go
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ahead and plug this in for the full effect? There we go. So, this is what it
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would look like if you installed it in a computer, which maybe I'll do later.
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Purple. Yeah. Okay. So, there. That's my video on the V6 GT from Cooler Master.
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