Cooler Master Unveils V-Series and V-Lite Series CPU Air Coolers Resembling Engine Blocks

[btarunr]

Cooler Master at the 2025 International CES showed off the new V-Series and V-Lite Series air CPU coolers that are designed to visually resemble engine blocks of performance cars and trucks. These are mainly just fancy top-plates designed to look either like the block hood, or cylinder heads, complete with make-believe air and exhaust manifolds. A common essential design among all cooler models is that they're all single fin-stack tower-type coolers with two fans in push-pull ventilation configuration. The differentiators are the size of the fin-stack, size of the fans, and number of heat pipes.

The series is led by the V10 3DHP, which features a single wide fin-stack that pulls heat from the CPU using no less than ten 6 mm-thick copper heat pipes. There's supposed to be a V8 3DHP that's slightly slimmer, and with eight heat pipes, but we couldn't find it. We instead spotted the V6 3DHP, which is further slim, with six heat pipes, and the smallest cooler of the lot, the V4 3DHP, with four 8 mm-thick heat pipes. Then there's the V-Lite Series. The top plates of these coolers resemble full-hood engine covers in production cars, there's no make-believe manifolds. The V-Lite V6 comes with six heat pipes, and the V4 with four. Both these lack any fancy lighting on the fans, but the top plates have a touch of RGB.



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[Chaitanya]

They havent released MA824XT that was supposed to launch in 2nd half of 2024 now they have bunch more air coolers.

 

[TheLostSwede]

So we've gone full circle and are back at this again then...

 

[Gigaherz]

The engine design is actually kinda cool. Comprehensive Tier-lineup, fun, and no Ai-BS or boring clean look.

 

[wNotyarD]

So we've gone full circle and are back at this again then...

Not full circle yet. Where's the peltier?

 

[GLZ10]

price?

 

[Hankieroseman]

They're nice looking but I want a Pratt & Whitney R2800 or J58 engine for the flight sim.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

This is the kind of tech silliness I miss. Fun designs for the sake of fun design.

They're nice looking but I want a Pratt & Whitney R2800 or J58 engine for the flight sim.

I want one in an actual V shape. Maybe the air intake on top would be an actual intake a fan blows into, with air exiting through the sides of the V.

Efficient? probably not.

Cool? Hell yeah.

Or make the cooler look like a I4 engine, with pistons that move in tempo with CPU usage. THAT would be sweet.

 

[freeagent]

They need to go back to this style, still have mine

 

[wachuwey]

I have one of the V8's, just like this:

 

[trsttte]

This is silly and I love it! Not enough to make me replace my noctua D-15, but enough to make me look for a model I could 3d print or how to make one

 

[Hankieroseman]

D15 is fine for my 5950X

 

[Gmr_Chick]

These CPU coolers definitely tickle the gear head in me

 

[bubbleawsome]

Funny that the V10 looks quite a bit like an LS pushrod style intake.

 

[Kapone33]

Funny that the V10 looks quite a bit like an LS pushrod style intake.

Looks like an engine in Modern Hypercars.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Now we need is for Thermaltake to re-release their Big/mini Typhoon along with their flower coolers and Duo Orb coolers.