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with its specifically tuned copper base and maintenance-free plug-and-play operation the EVGA 980ti hybrid offers ultra-fast gaming performance at the lowest temperatures possible click the link in the description for more details now not everyone is as comfortable with putting liquid inside of their computers as I am which leaves you with the only choice of going with air cooling now we haven't taken a look at a whole lot of air coolers on this channel but today we're going to be looking at cooler masters brand-new master air maker 8 it's kind of a silly name but is it a silly cooler I don't know let's find out I'm gonna play go now I don't typically do unboxings but I'm going to do that today and include that in today's review because I feel that any company that takes the amount of time and effort to make the presentation good is definitely a company that cares about the product that's inside so I wanted to go ahead and show that to you guys today now one of the things that makes the master air maker 8 so unique is the fact that it is a customizable air cooler you don't see a whole lot of that when it comes to air cooling and considering it's very difficult to find a one cooler fits all type of scenario they've made a lot of adjustable aspects to this that I think is very neat and I can't wait to show you guys that so anyway once you open up the package here you can see that it does have a very well thought-out presentation here here's the cooler labeled our hair manual and accessories the 120 ARS 12 centimeter or 120 millimeter fan brackets so that you can switch out the included 140 millimeter fans on here if you wanted to with something of your choice and then the top plate so we'll talk about that in a second now the cooler measures 172 millimeters tall so automatically it's going to not exactly be form factor friendly when it comes to the ITX builds or super small form factor cases so definitely keep that in mind 172 millimeters is pretty tall it comes installed with a push and pull configuration on both sides of the heat sink this is 140 millimeter fans with LEDs in there as well so that it will glow and look pretty but also it's got eight copper heat pipes in here as well as a 3d vapor chamber so you're getting kind of dual purpose here we've got vapor chamber and heat pipes giving you the best dissipation that you possibly can which is kind of taken it as sort of a hybrid cooler in a way where the vapor chamber as the heatsink heats up the vapor is going to turn into a gas it's going to carry heat to the top of the pipe the heat sinks going to carry that heat away as that heat is carried away it's going to condense back down to a liquid move to the bottom and continue that sort of process vapor chambers are actually very neat if you think about it arguably one of the most frustrating things about tall heat seat coolers like this is that they give you amazing cooling and part of the height of the stack of the thin array here and the heat pipes is giving you amazing cooling but when you have a push-pull configuration like this with a fan on both sides where it comes in one side and out the other it's going to give you the best efficiency but at the same time it takes up a lot of space and you guys know that right next to the CPU socket is where your memory goes at a lot of memory tends to be taller than standard now because of the fact that they are including high heatsink spreaders or heat spreaders on top of the memory which can impact the fans of your heatsink tower I know a lot of folks have encountered that where they couldn't go push pull on their heatsink fans simply because the memory was striking the bottom of the fan what cooler masters thought about that and they have these two tabs on either side of the cooler you simply push those in if I can find the other one here there we go you push those in and then you can slide the fan up and down to get some extra cooling on there or some extra clearance on there it's kind of a big deal not only that it also makes it extremely easy to take your fans off of the heatsink and clean them you can get inside the thin array here very very easily and then put the fans right back on without having to get entirely too technical with dealing with clips and pool you know rubber pull tabs or screws it's very very easy now the fin stack here it's very very heavy actually this whole thing weighs over 1,300 grams when it's all put together so that's something to keep in mind when it comes to leverage for pulling on your motherboard but it is very very sturdy the aluminum fins on here are nice and thick there's a lot of them it's going to give you a lot of heat dissipation I have no concerns about putting this on any CPU that you could possibly find so it's going to give you really good cooling we're going to test that today on my 59 30 K okay so here's what the top of the cooler looks like it is a well as you can see it is a piano finish which you guys know I am just like that I hate piano finish so if you're the kind of guy like me that looks that goes oh man that just sucks because over time you're going to wipe this you're going to clean it it's going to get fingerprints effect I'm putting fingerprints all over it right now it's going to get scratched if you wipe it too many times and that's just unfortunate well Coolermaster includes this little box right here when we opened up you saw it said top plate and in here is a replacement top plate which is apparently smarter than me I can't get it open so there's only one in there it's kind of a big box with this big top plate but guess what this guy is this one is not piano finish it is abs textured way to go on that that makes me fact that metal well I only looked at this through the plastic the first time I open this box to kind of get acquainted with this I thought it was plastic it's not this is aluminum so there are several things that you can do with this in fact it is a a bead blasted kind of a dusted anodized black aluminum here now that means you could paint this and you could get that paint stripped off if you decide you don't like it start all over with using something like an air craft remover it's not going to strip the anodizing but it will strip the paint off and you can repaint this thing over and over that is freaking amazing so let's go ahead and get this thing installed on here in fact before we do that when we go ahead and show you the hardware but we will install this thing to show you look at the arrangement of the hardware here have you ever seen hardware that's actually been you know presented this nicely with this little plastic pouch here with all the screws you've got your manual here you've got your back plates for all of your sockets including AMD as well as Intel it's going to include 2011 sockets 1366 1150 LM 51 LGA 775 AM 2a + 3 + AM sockets I mean it's it's everything it's going to fit everything and that's what makes this cooler really neat is it's not catering to just one or the other all right so anyway let's say you want to change this top cover here because you hate the piano finish which I do it's pretty easy you simply grab it by the side push it to one end and then it will pop up you've got a cooler master logo right here which does light up so we'll light up underneath this cover but then all you got to do is take your aluminum aluminum indium one here place it over snap it down so everything is lined up and then the cooler master logo there pops through and there it is right there which this looks so much better to me than this piano finish hate that hate piano finishes now one last accessory to talk about here is it does come with a pwm splitter which is a big deal because of the fact that a lot of motherboards especially if you're using this in a smaller form factor like a micro-atx or something you might only have one CPU fan header not an optional besides you're going to want these fans to speed up and slow down together so it does include a PWM splitter so you control both of your fans as well as this little plug right here that plugs into the harness coming off the middle of the heatsink so that you can make this guy light up but if you don't want the logo to light up then all you have to simply do is don't plug that in all right let's go ahead and hook this thing up and let's see how well it performs so installation is super easy and it's no harder than any other aircrews you've probably ever installed if you've installed any sort of cooler master heatsink in the past like a hyper 212 Evo or something like that or a v8 it's very very similar to the way that those all install you've got brackets that go on the motherboard and then the heatsink mounts to the bracket it's very very easy to get to it's very easy to install too as long as you don't make stupid mistakes like I did now I'd like to share my mistakes with you guys because it helps everybody learn and I want to show that even the best of us makes stupid mistakes now I installed this thing and I loaded up a 264 and I expected it to not be as good as my water cooling obviously I mean this thing's got my test bench typically has a custom loop triple 360 right on there lots of lots of headroom when it comes to water cooling my 59 30 K running at 4.4 gigahertz now here's the thing or four point five years sorry here's the thing I installed it and it immediately went up into the ninety degrees Celsius range and thermal throttled up to like 18 to 20 percent on thermal throttling that tells me we were hitting over 90 C remember thorough thermal throttling on x99 platform CPUs is much lower than 105 on a standard CPU so I was racking my brain trying to figure out what the heck is going on why is it thermal throttling like this and I decided to go ahead and take a break from it and it started editing together the first half of this video would you guys think about that you guys like that musical intro with the b-roll and anyway you guys can tell me in the comments whether you liked it or hated it but anyway it's kind of like fourth-wall break huh I'm talking about something that happened in this video while recording this video before it's even done but part of it was already edited anyway I realized I was looking at my editing going I forgot I know someone here has already said this someone's already said they know what the problem is I forgot to take off the little plastic protector for the bottom of the block yeah the actual copper base I forgot to take the plastic off that I mean you kind of get in that the moment where you're building you just doing your thing and you forget to peel the stupid thing off because it's facing down you don't really way yeah I did that so anyway I ran back down here took the thing apart yep there it was cleaned off all the old thermal paste put it back together and we are running a 264 right now the temperature of 71 C at a hundred percent load averages on the cores are 60 57 65 60 62 and 59 with an average package temp of 72 point eight and right now temps just came back down to 67 66 and the thing you have to understand what 8 o 64 is it does FPU testing it does memory stress testing it does all the algorithms it pushes the CPU as hard as it possibly can it's going to be pushed harder than any real-world scenario would ever do adobe rendering none of that is going to push the CPU in terms of stress testing and temperature testing as something like a 264 so it's going to be a hell of a lot lower than that when it comes to temperatures now to put that into perspective my custom water cooling loop tends to sit anywhere between 59 and 63 depending on the amount of load on it in a 264 so we're only about 10 see higher than that with air cooling and a hell of a lot cheaper than it was to buy a custom water cooling loop now of course nothing is perfect there is a drawback to this and I have to mention this it is absolutely nearly impossible to get your graphics card out once it's installed if depending on the distance between your CPU and your top card when you have a graphics card in the top the cooler is right next to that and practically touching it which means it's impossible to get the graphics card out when the cooler and the fans are installed it's easiest to just take the fans off and then take the memory out and try and get your finger in there keep the clean guys this is a family tech show keep it clean I mean it but you got to really like finagle your appendage down in there and to UM unlatch the PCI Express retention clip on the graphics card it was a real pain in the butt getting that out and I knew that it was going to be when I installed it and I getting it out was harder than I thought it was going to be so unfortunately if you're running like an X 99 board or something that has a lot of PCIe slots and it puts the top slot really close to the CPU that's something you're gonna have to keep in mind that's really the only drawback I could think to this yeah I really couldn't think of any other drawbacks it really is a fantastic cooler does a great job of cooling it looks great it is by far one of the sharpest looking air coolers I think I've ever seen and some of them do a really good job at cooling but look terrible and then some of them look really good but cool terrible this is one of the few that give you both and you've got some adjustability in there for RAM clearance as well as beautiful LEDs and an option on the top that you can install and paint or do something custom with anyway guys tell me what you thought of this video how you guys like the editing style and stuff also - if you feel like supporting and I never do this I hope you guys don't get mad but if you guys feel like helping support outside of YouTube I do have an Amazon affiliate links there in the description of this video I've only got three countries set up I'll try and set up some more but anyway it really helps the channel out a lot and it helps me not have to put as many ads and stuff in front of you guys which means I can get back to me on better content creation rather than trying to figure out how to keep the channel going outside of YouTube's shitty income model anyway guys thanks for watching today's video again I really hope you guys will tell me what you think and I will see you in the next one which is probably going to be this guy right here I left it back there as a teaser I'm sure someone's already commented without getting to this point of the video but I digress it's time to go and I'm gonna go ahead and I guess I'm gonna finish editing this video huh anyway see you later guys