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Coolermaster V8

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ElMoIsEviL

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I want to start off by saying that I'm not big on air cooling. I have been building my own water and phase cooling systems for some time now and I rarely dabble back into Air Cooling. That having been said I've been looking for a decent cooler for a Q9550 I had laying around and noticed that the air cooling market had some nice quiet solutions.

There was a sale on the Coolermaster V8. To be fair I didn't really look deeply into how this unit performed. It's simple mass was enough for me to assume it would perform decently and the 800RPM speed on low for the fan was what I was looking for.

So I installed the sucker. I wasn't looking to overclock the processor much but I did want to give it some extra omph. So I was looking for around 3.6GHz and upon the first attempt it worked.

So the CPU Idles anywhere from 36-48C (Room Temp varies between 25-27C).
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I just wanted to say how easy it was to configure and install. It was a pleasure to work with this cooler and overall I'm quite happy with it:
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Hey thanks for posting this! I was thinking of going with this cooler for an upcoming i7 920 build and I'm glad to know it's worked out for you, sure makes me feel a lot more comfortable about purchasing it.
 
just bought one myself....... i like the fact it comes with a fan and i7 bracket in the box, it's only 61 bux @ crazy pc, with shipping still works out cheaper than newegg and they sent it out the same day i ordered it, result :D
 
I like the way it looks and the performance is good, but not a fan of the mounting system. I don't like that you must tighten the nuts from the back of the MB. Its a limitation of the size of the thing though since you wouldn't be able to do it from the front since its square.
 
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