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hello everyone I am Dimitri with hardware conducts welcome to another video I feel like CPU tower coolers have gone a bit stagnant over last awhile as consumers and enthusiasts even have started to shift towards all-in-one radiator coolers over the standard air coolers because the whole water cooling aspect of cooling your hardware definitely has its merits so cool master in my eyes is trying to challenge that type of thinking with the master air maker eight CPU cooler they're giving this new 3d vapor chamber try added a few modular aspects that are pretty unique over the price of $130 and usually this price tag is not associated with air coolers and so this will eventually hurt the spread of the maker 8 first let's start with the packaging which is way over the top in my opinion surely everything is organized and labeled beautifully but this is so much packaging material you know you're paying $130 and a good chunk of that is for the all the packaging that you see here plus there is a very bulky box just for an extra piece you know I wonder what happened with being environmentally conscious company and trying to sort of sell that to us instead of drowning us in all this cardboard so moving on in the package we received both AMD and Intel brackets this plastic housing with all the needed mounting hardware an additional aluminum top piece for the cooler where the stock one is this glossy transparent one and you can also download 3d printing templates for customization of your own moving on to the cooler itself so first we have two 140 millimeter cylinders your fans so good quality there that moved quite a bit of air and have a fantastic static pressure they are illuminated in only red color so your color coordination inside the case must be thought about but check out that gorgeous top the heatsink with lit up middle cooler master logo and the end tips for the eight heat pipes so if that's the number in the name as it features eight heat pipes in total so there's four heat pipes that are soldered onto the base which is the sort of the standard profile for and you know CPU coolers while the other four are part of the cooler masters new 3d VC or 3d vapor chamber design where there there is coolant inside the base and the four heat pipes and as the coolant heats up it turns into gas you know travels through the heat pipes get cooled by the heatsink and the fans and then it turns back into the liquid form and the cycle continues so the cooler base isn't totally polished and in fact it is actually more textured than what we normally see from most high-end CPU towers now the fans are mounted on brackets so they are easily removable by pressing these clips on each side and in fact you need to remove the fans during installation but it's not comfortable if you need to swap the fans inside the case because these clips are at the base and sometimes there may be difficult to access especially if you have fans at the top there's no way to pass your hand there or perhaps you cannot remove the top panel at all so this simple clip and slide mechanism doesn't really help here and if for any reason you'd want to swap out the included fans 120mm fan brackets are included which grant you extra clearance for memory modules and we'll get to that in just a little bit now installations from my perspective with a z170 board was pretty straightforward you secure the backplate it's all manual no screwdrivers required then you pop in some thermal paste which is included lower the cooler in place to match the to secure points on either side and bam then you gain a screwdriver to tighten these two incredibly tiny nuts which is so weird given the massive size of the cooler itself but luckily the heatsink is shaped to allow a screw driver to access that spot which worked just fine now this was of course all done outside of the case but I imagine the process to be a lot more tedious if performed inside a case and you should also be mindful that the cooler is giant and heavy it's one point three five kilograms and 172 millimeters in height so case clearance need to be double checked for sure I actually didn't realize just how tall the cooler was until a good portion that was sticking out of my system and I couldn't close the panel and also if you move the fan position in the top slot cooler high grows by about 12 millimeters which means only full tower accommodation is possible but why would you want to raise the fans here you might say because unless you have some really low profile Ram you definitely encounter clearance issues not only does this fan cover two memory slots but it's practically touching the middle portion of the memory and lucky for us this Corsair lpx modules don't have that heatsink right in the middle raising the fan to the second position would give us enough clearance for a taller Ram but then you might have this weird-looking top panel for the CPU cooler so the last piece of insulation is cable management which is connected via this single four pin connector to your motherboard and it splits for the dual fans and the LED power it's long enough to route to any CPU header on your motherboard but oh man it's not flexible at all and there's a good thing that the heatsink is so large it's large enough to simply hide this cable out of your sight and this is what the default plate looks like on the top then there's no plate and then the aluminum plate in the end and I personally love the aluminum finish as the plastic piece shows finger prints way too easy so now let's start calling performance and this is by far the best performing air cooler we've tested to date the numbers speak it all and the package with this cooler seems to be full with the 3d VC great fans and a dense heatsink surprisingly the status quo does not change when we compare against popular 120 and 140 millimeter all-in-one coolers it's still the best performing but keep in mind that some of these own ones are half the price but it's when we move into the 240 and the 280 millimeter all-in-one radiator territory this is when the master air maker eight starts to show some weakness despite being in the same price bracket it's doesn't cool very well or it doesn't cool as well as most of these coolers noise wise it's in the middle it's good to see that you have the potential for a quiet system with the maker eight so concluding words is simple the master error maker ate it cools well it looks awesome and I do appreciate these you know customization element with the top plate that allows you to 3d print your own and really customize to whatever you feel like it however there are two things you have to be mindful of RAM clearance and case clearance one of them because the the cooler is so large that you will not be able to fit it in most mid towers especially if you're raising the fans and you're most likely we have to raise the fans because RAM clearance is just unless you're using really low-profile modules you'll not be able to fit the cooler with its stock position however the biggest issue for many would be the price as it swims in the same territory as two forty and two eighty millimeter Oman radiator coolers that outperform the maker eight easy and you can achieve similar cooling results with single on one radiator coolers so yeah but that is it for this video thank you guys so much for watching and I have a question for you if you are thinking of upgrading your cooler or using a cooler and your next build would you do air cooling or you know all in one enclosed water cooling for your next build and if you are choosing the air cooling route with the the maker 8 be attractive for you leave your reasons down below love to encourage this conversation to find out how the consumers are reacting towards this type of direction from cooler master and creating this very advanced and high-end air cooler but that would be it for this one I'm Dimitri with Harbor Canucks thanks so much for watching we'll 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