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Even though it is an older design, the Cooler Master V8 proves to hold up well against more modern, performance based coolers. While it is outperformed by both the Thermaltake Frio and the Noctua NH D14 it is still perfectly capable of handling high thermal transients on both AMD and Intel platforms.
We felt the review today would be an interesting look at current performance coolers, before Cooler Master revamp their line up with new, fresh, exciting designs for 2011. The V8 was a radical, well received design at the time, and would still make a great partner for an overclocked performance gaming system.
When compared with the class leading Noctua NH D14, the Cooler Master V8 does fall a bit short of the performance mark, however it is £25 less expensive and it doesn't cause restrictions either when paired up with oversized memory heatspreaders.
We are still very impressed with the V8, and if Cooler Master are able to improve upon this design for the next generation lineup, then Noctua and Thermaltake will surely have a fight on their hands.
KitGuru says: Still a fantastic high performance cooler, made even more palatable by some cut price deals online.
I have had one of these for a year now and its still great. recommended.
Still looks good too. I never liked their highest end one, it takes up basically a full case !
I always meant to pick one of these up, but opted for the noctua a year later. Still looks nice and it gives more room over the motherboard. That is why I dislike the D14. it just hogs all the space and makes adjustments to a system a nightmare.
quite surprised to see this being reviewed so long after it was released, but after reading it, its was good to see the performance of the new coolers gainst it. they have a bit of a task outperforming the D14, not unless they make the size much larger.
Frio seems the better deal to me, pricing is very similar and its a newer cooler. bit interesting to see what Cooler Master come up with.
This was always a great cooler, and I think their new version should be really smoking, if they dont make it too big like the V10.
nice to see this cooler again, was always a good product from cooler master, probably why they let its life span run so long.
look forward to seeing the new version, whatever it might be.
I’m using hyper 212 plus, performance is good, but I don’t like its fan, when ever CPU usage spikes, the fan follows.