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Cooler Master V8 i7 cooler?

anindrew

anindrew

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Have any of you seen the Cooler Master V8 for sale online where it for sure comes with the i7 bracket? Every site I see it on just says "i7 compatible" or something to that extent. The only site where it seems to definitely come with the bracket is microcenter, but they're charging more than any other site.

I'm most likely buying everything for my new system tonight as I know about some special deals happening once the date is 11/26. If I can't find the Cooler Master V8 with the i7 bracket, I've heard the Noctua i7 cooler cools about equally well.

Thanks!
 
My hot-dawg friend in Albuquerque called my attention to the V8 because he's enthused about building an I7 system.

I haven't looked into the benchtest reviews too thoroughly on this unit.

I'm almost dogma-driven about this, and people know me for it: "Don't mess with the Duck! He knows his air-cooling!"

You need to find hard evidence -- free of "implicit-review-payola" -- that the cooler has the lowest thermal resistance in comparison to others for a fixed test-bench airflow and fan. There are a lot of good coolers on the market, but they vary over a narrow range for load temperature at a common, fixed room-ambient and airflow-fan combination (controlled in the test-bench).

So for Conroe or Penryn, I wouldn't say you need the "very best," but these darned I7's are toasters. The Thermal Design Spec on these is 130W.

That being said, you apparently can over-clock them (if you know what you're doing) with voltage settings that are nominally and comfortably within the warranty-spec -- at least that's what I've seen from early customer reviews at NewEgg. Temperature increases with the square of the voltage, and it increases only linearly with speed. So I've also seen acceptable temperatures for these puppies -- even with the stock cooler.

I still say, though, with that sort of TDP spec, look hard and carefully for the best cooler you can find. And I say this especially because validating any over-clocks is best done with INtelBurnTest, and IntelBurnTest will really heat up the processor cores.
 
the only thing that I've heard is that it's better than stock... I was going to put one on mine but then swiftech came out with an adapter for thier GTZ water block
 
I ended up buying the Noctua NH-U12P SE166 cooler. Another forum member here bought it and has had great results OCing. Thank you for your comments!
 
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