The Cooler Master V8 is by all means a cooler, to its size and shape it looks like a tumor coming out of your case with a black plastic cover and also aluminum fins running around. Definitely it is a sight for sore eyes, this is not a toy to play with, and well in our terms it is; but the Cooler Master in no choice is a large; or an oversized cooler with and internal fan inside that enclosed plastic case. Just to give an example of how large it is, it is almost as large as the ASUS version of a large heat sink cooler for the CPU (it is the orange type of cooler that Bit-tech normally use when testing the size of the computer case).
For much of the coolers that I normally use to cool a Hot CPU, preferably the QX6850 or the AMD’s 9950, for the most of the part the coolers external design is an almost labyrinth type of aluminum fins and heat pipes, with a total of about eight heat-pipes going from the CPU to the four full aluminum fins being cooled by a single fans that is sitting in the middle of the cooler. It looks complicated at first when looking in the sides of the cooler. But the top plastic design makes it all simple. With this cooler mount of the CPC bracket and encased in a windowed case looks spectacular. When you turn the light of and power on the red LED lights of the cooler really does show the seriousness of the product (don’t ask me I am overwhelmed by the products design) but it is as huge cooler that CoolerMaster have made with some design great and also size heights, but most of the coolers now favor the use of tower type coolers like the example of the Noctua coolers and bundle it with a silent fan for better and lower load temps.
The cooling performance of the V8 is a little of the average side of the spectrum, for a stock speed fan in a QX6850 is about as low as 39 degrees in idle and in load times it is in the high 60 degrees (that is in the average fans speed setting) for a high setting; the cooler can go down at 33 degrees at idle and at load about 58 degrees, but paying it off is the cost of noise made by the single fan; about 35dBA in high setting. For the Cooler form Cooler Master is a bigger alternative to the conventional coolers like Gigabyte G-power, but for aesthetics; the V8 is a good look alternative for an aftermarket cooling plus a good look on a windowed case just to show off.
