Cooler Master V10 owners I got some questions

[shaolin95]

Hi!
Please if you are not an owner and are going to comment based on reviews then please do not.
The review samples had inferior parts to the retail. In fact Cooler Master had a "kit" to upgrade those.
Pretty much the TEC was not kicking in with the review samples for most of them.

In any case:
I am thinking on getting one for $65 but I have two doubts.
First, I am not sure if it will be an improvement over my Mugen 2.
Second, I have read that the TEC kicks in at 70C which makes no sense for my Phenom 2 which at most have seen 55C I believe.
What do you guys think? Can you tweak when the TEC kicks in?
Thanks

 

[ScorcherDarkly]

The only review of the unit I read said exactly the same thing you've already observed: the TEC kicks in at too high a temperature. Unless you have an absolute torture rack for a computer you're never going to get temps that will activate half the heat sink. When the TEC did kick in it basically made the temps freeze at 70C, so it did work well once it was needed.

This same review tried to hardwire the TEC to be on all the time and it worked for about 10 minutes before the thing shorted out and took the PSU with it. So no, there's is no way to adjust the temp threshold.

Lastly, the review indicated that temps using this HSF were worse than many other more conventional devices out there, yet cost nearly twice as much. Overall, they didn't recommend it.

I'm too lazy to try and find the review. Sorry. Yes I ignored your "don't post" warning. Invalidating entire sets of data because of "bad samples" seems pretty silly unless you've got some hard evidence of a performance change after the item was released. Even if you did, you couldn't quantify it because the reviews were bad. Catch-22 much?

 

[shaolin95]

Excuse me, I appreciate your post but I think is sillier to go by bad samples when there was a kit made available for those early review coolers. It would be silly to forget about that "tiny" detail and call it a day.
And as far hard evidence about the performance changes...well, what do you think is the intend of this thread?
Anyhow, I got word from another user that claims it works great for his normally hot running 920 CPU but with his AMD3 it was bad because, just as I thought, the AMD does not get even near that 70ºC temperature so, I guess I will pass on it.

Regards