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Published: Jun 05, 2009 Author: Niko Lupala Editor: Amber Lupala Provider: Coolermaster Share this article:

Closer look

 
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Inside you will find an instruction manual on how to install this cooler on the various sockets, of course you also get a small bag with different mounting clips. The manual is great and explains step by step on how to install the cooler, it only took me like 5 minutes to get this thing on even though my motherboard had some problems fitting this cooler.

The cooler itself is a big black piece of plastic almost but inside it you will find the heatpipes, heatsink along with the TEC so lets take a closer look.

 
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The heatsinks are well done, the fins are perfectly aligned from each other and the heatpipes are well connected from the core to the heatsink. As we can see they have chosen to use 4 heatpipes to transfer the heat away from the core to the tec and 6 heatpipes for the heatsink itself. A Tec gets cold on the bottom and hot on the top and that heat has to be removed the from it and therefore they have mounted 6 heatpipes to cover this job.

 
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The core of this heatsink is quite massive, it is bigger than a standard cooler. Once again very nice heatsink part on the right picture and as we can see, they have placed a fan above it to cool the heatsink down. 

 
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I had to actually mount the cooler wrong on my specific motherboard as it had quite big heatsink on the bridges which made it so the V10 did not fit. Therefore I had to turn it the opposite way, so it looks a bit funky but when it comes to the cpu cooling results on the cpu they are very accurate.