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| System Name | RBMK-1000 |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5700G |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte B550 AORUS Elite V2 |
| Cooling | DeepCool Gammax L240 V2 |
| Memory | 2x 16GB DDR4-3200 |
| Video Card(s) | Galax RTX 4070 Ti EX |
| Storage | Samsung 990 1TB |
| Display(s) | BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch |
| Case | Corsair Carbide 100R |
| Audio Device(s) | ASUS SupremeFX S1220A |
| Power Supply | Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W |
| Mouse | ASUS ROG Strix Impact |
| Keyboard | Gamdias Hermes E2 |
| Software | Windows 11 Pro |
Cooler Master is seated front-row center as Moore's Law tapers, and the need for advanced computing to have powerful cooling rises. The company showed off several innovations with its core business of cooling. We begin our tour of the Cooler Master booth with its new 3D Heat Pipe innovation. It may look simple and unorthodox, but CM says that this innovation took decades of innovation. Consider a U-shaped heatpipe from a typical tower-type CPU cooler, with its two ends passing through an aluminium fin-stack, and the central region making contact with the heat source (CPU).
Cooler Master innovated an arm of this heat pipe that pops out from the central region. This is easier said than done, as the pipe's inner channel needs to seamlessly connect with the rest of the heatpipe, and improper welding can cause metal extrusions that can clog the pipe. This is probably what took CM decades to figure out. The third arm of the heat pipe helps heat from the source spread more uniformly across the fin-stack. Cooler Master showcased its first tower-type coolers implementing 3D Heat Pipe tech, which we'll talk about in a bit.
Next up, Cooler Master showed off a custom VGA cooler. Custom air coolers for graphics cards are as old as graphics cards with any form of cooling, however, over the past couple of decades, they fell out of trend, and got replaced by DIY and AIO liquid cooling. These are coming back into fashion as graphics card designers look to create special editions of their products with co-branded cooling. A good example of this would be ASUS and Noctua's collaboration. Cooler Master's cooling solution integrates several contemporary bits of technology, such as a vapor chamber plate that pulls heat from the GPU and memory; fine mirror-finish baseplates to pull heat from the VRM, an aluminium fin-stack heatsink that implements the best learnings Cooler Master gathered over the decades; and a trio of the company's latest fan innovations.
Cooler Master has many options to go to market with this cooler—directly as aftermarket coolers for consumers to pair with their cards that they bought at baseline pricing, and co-branding with graphics card manufacturers. The price delta between the cheapest and most expensive custom-design graphics cards tends to be so vast, that it creates ample room for consumers to pick the cheapest card, and opt for aftermarket premium cooling, such as this one from Cooler Master; and yet save money to achieve comparable cooling and noise performance to premium custom cards.
Moving on, we were shown Cooler Master's first air CPU coolers to implement the 3D Heat Pipe (3DHP) technology. The lineup is led by the Cooler Master V8 Ace, an XXL-thick single fin-stack cooler that implements 3DHPs, and a pair of 120 mm FDB fans in push-pull configuration. Next up, is the V4 Alpha, a slightly toned down variant of this cooler with a thick aluminium fin-stack, but fewer 3DHP elements, and a flatter die-cast metal top-plate. A pair of 120 mm fans with FDB come included with this one, too. The V4 Core ARGB is essentially similar to the V4 Alpha, but with one fewer heat pipe, and a single ARGB fan. The V4 Core (non-ARGB) is a further slimmed down version of the V4 Core ARGB, and lacks fan illumination besides an apparently slimmer fin-stack.
The company also showed off its MasterLiquid MasterHUB AIO CLC. This cooler comes with a pump-block from which you can hot-swap its top, not just to change the look, but also functionality. You can swap between various accessories, including true-color displays, mesh or piano-black ARGB diffusers, brushed metal, and lots more. Lastly, there's the MasterFan XT line of extra thick fans that have thickness in excess of 30 mm. The added thickness significantly increases fan sweep and fan-blade area, increasing airflow at a given RPM, which can be traded in for lower RPM and lower noise.
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Cooler Master innovated an arm of this heat pipe that pops out from the central region. This is easier said than done, as the pipe's inner channel needs to seamlessly connect with the rest of the heatpipe, and improper welding can cause metal extrusions that can clog the pipe. This is probably what took CM decades to figure out. The third arm of the heat pipe helps heat from the source spread more uniformly across the fin-stack. Cooler Master showcased its first tower-type coolers implementing 3D Heat Pipe tech, which we'll talk about in a bit.
Next up, Cooler Master showed off a custom VGA cooler. Custom air coolers for graphics cards are as old as graphics cards with any form of cooling, however, over the past couple of decades, they fell out of trend, and got replaced by DIY and AIO liquid cooling. These are coming back into fashion as graphics card designers look to create special editions of their products with co-branded cooling. A good example of this would be ASUS and Noctua's collaboration. Cooler Master's cooling solution integrates several contemporary bits of technology, such as a vapor chamber plate that pulls heat from the GPU and memory; fine mirror-finish baseplates to pull heat from the VRM, an aluminium fin-stack heatsink that implements the best learnings Cooler Master gathered over the decades; and a trio of the company's latest fan innovations.
Cooler Master has many options to go to market with this cooler—directly as aftermarket coolers for consumers to pair with their cards that they bought at baseline pricing, and co-branding with graphics card manufacturers. The price delta between the cheapest and most expensive custom-design graphics cards tends to be so vast, that it creates ample room for consumers to pick the cheapest card, and opt for aftermarket premium cooling, such as this one from Cooler Master; and yet save money to achieve comparable cooling and noise performance to premium custom cards.
Moving on, we were shown Cooler Master's first air CPU coolers to implement the 3D Heat Pipe (3DHP) technology. The lineup is led by the Cooler Master V8 Ace, an XXL-thick single fin-stack cooler that implements 3DHPs, and a pair of 120 mm FDB fans in push-pull configuration. Next up, is the V4 Alpha, a slightly toned down variant of this cooler with a thick aluminium fin-stack, but fewer 3DHP elements, and a flatter die-cast metal top-plate. A pair of 120 mm fans with FDB come included with this one, too. The V4 Core ARGB is essentially similar to the V4 Alpha, but with one fewer heat pipe, and a single ARGB fan. The V4 Core (non-ARGB) is a further slimmed down version of the V4 Core ARGB, and lacks fan illumination besides an apparently slimmer fin-stack.
The company also showed off its MasterLiquid MasterHUB AIO CLC. This cooler comes with a pump-block from which you can hot-swap its top, not just to change the look, but also functionality. You can swap between various accessories, including true-color displays, mesh or piano-black ARGB diffusers, brushed metal, and lots more. Lastly, there's the MasterFan XT line of extra thick fans that have thickness in excess of 30 mm. The added thickness significantly increases fan sweep and fan-blade area, increasing airflow at a given RPM, which can be traded in for lower RPM and lower noise.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
