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excellent I have now covered several products from cooler masters master series and so far I've liked what I've seen there was the master case and the master keys for example beyond that there is also a master watt power supply a master air air cooler and there's even master gel thermal interface material now which is you know nice I think that the master branding works since it's part of cooler masters name feels vaguely associated with the PC master-race and it implies that the product represents the upper echelon of what cooler master is able to produce based on their years of experience making PC hardware so today I take a look at the master liquid pro 240 an all-in-one cpu liquid cooler that's also available an hundred and twenty millimeter trim does this product deserve a place among its master series brethren or is it just masturbate so as you might expect the master liquid pro 240 comes with a prefilled and sealed 240 millimeter radiator attached via fep tubing to a unit containing a pump and water block accessories include a rubber gasket to put between the fans and the rad mounting hardware and a backplate for modern AMD and Intel sockets sets of screws for mounting the thermal paste and the rest of the plastic tabs and standoffs for the mainstream or enthusiast sockets he also gets a little fan splitter for pin single to double which is very convenient for using a motherboard that doesn't have enough fan headers also included are 220 millimeter master fan pro air balance fans which coolermaster says are balanced hence the name for a mix between performance and low noise operation rather than going for an all-out high static pressure design the not slouches though still putting out two point three four millimeters of h2o static pressure and sixty six point seven cubic feet per minute of air flow while generating a maximum of 30 a weighted decibels of noise at full speed the radiator has a matte black finish and a tasteful Coolermaster logo with the product name in white on the side it's 27 millimeters thick and although I was initially disappointed that it used aluminum fins rather than copper they do have a special squared off design that allows the fins to make more contact with the channels while also providing more space for airflow the concept of the design makes sense to me so we'll see how it plays out in testing the tubing is made of fep that's fluorinated ethylene propylene and material and I could explain why it's a good material for this purpose but let's be honest you probably only really care about how it looks those ribbed ridges are there to keep the tubing from kinking and I'll be honest that this just is not my favorite style of tubing when it comes to looks it is thicker though so it's not quite as bad as some of the thin fep tubing that I've seen used in the past and I'm sure there are some people out there who actually prefer this over the sleeves or rubberized tubing methods that I've seen I'm just not one of them let's move on to the pump and block unit note that it's a separate pump and block connected by a couple links rather than a pump / block that's all together as one take that a step patent lawsuits now Coolermaster has some explanations for why their design is better than the competition here and while I'm inclined to believe that's mostly to prevent further litigation from ace tech who has been rigorously enforcing their patents over the past couple years in the USA at least let's just see what's going on beneath the housing first the master liquid pump is further from the CPU and heat generating components that makes sense I suppose but it is hard to evaluate how much that actually helps next they're using the spraying method on the CPU block itself pushing the liquid down at the center of the micro fins and allowing it to flow out on either side this is definitely a better method than the flow me across all the fins from one side to the other method and it is the same method employed with high end CPU blocks from makers like ek so apart from that the unit is taller than others but probably not tall enough to conflict with anything and also there's a clear window with the cooler master logo on it and a blue LED look how nicely the blue LED matches with the motherboard LEDs rejoice users who wants blue to be part of their color scheme or people with an RGB LED motherboard like this one despair the rest of you who don't want blue because as far as I can tell there's no way to turn the damn thing off I don't mind LEDs I don't even mind static color LEDs as long as I can disable them so anyway if you couldn't already tell I have gone through the installation process of putting the master liquid pro 240 in the system which wasn't too bad at all there's no great improvements here on aftermarket CPU cooler installation but no steps backwards either and I ran some simple tests to gauge performance to provide comparison I also tested a first gen corsair h 110 either to provide a tougher challenge to the master liquid pro 2 40 since the h 110 has a large 280 millimeter radiator or because it was already installed in this system and it was just super convenient take your pick and I the case after the proper burnin I checked temps at idle after 15 minutes of no activity and under load after 15 minutes of activity running Ida 60 for system stability tests I'm using in 5820k and I tested it at stock speeds as well as overclocked to 4.4 gigahertz I found that after adjusting for ambient temperature these two all-in-ones were just about neck-and-neck with the H 110 running half agree to a degree cooler than the master liquid pro 240 this might not seem like stellar performance for the master liquid pro 240 but keep in mind that it's significantly smaller at 240 millimeters versus 280 so I'm actually pretty impressed that it kept up as for noise I will share some footage of the cooler running at idle and now running at full load while overclocked so please take these two recording demonstrations with a grain of salt as I'm just using the camera's mic positioned about ten inches from the cooler with a side panel off so it's not the most scientific but you also get bonus points if you can hear Hiro snoring in the background just like there was actually perfect timing so now it's conclusion time for pros with the master liquid pro 2 40 you get solid build quality quiet if not an audible noise generation and equivalent performance to a last gen 280 millimeter cooler which I actually think is pretty good you also get a five-year warranty from cooler master which is quite nice as for cons I was mostly let down by the master series labeling and the expectations I had because of it if this was my master liquid cooler it would go all out and have a copper radiator instead of aluminum maybe some RGB lighting in the pump for at least some means of turning it off which who knows could be added in the future since I did actually spot some extra connectors on the pump connection points and maybe some more premium feeling tubing or potential expandability with industry standard fittings like we saw with the iceberg from Coolermaster a couple years back ultimately I think this is a good cooler and I was happy with the noise and performance and at $120 its competitive with a lot of the mid range large all-in-one coolers on the market I could see a better and more feature-rich version of the master look with pro 240 though I just don't know what they call it maybe they add an X on the end that usually works that is all for this review though guys if you enjoyed this video I strongly encourage you to hit the like button wherever it happens to be down there depending on where you're watching if you want to help me support my channel even more by helping me you can also use my Amazon link which is also down there in the video's description click it before you shop for stuff that helps me a lot or feel free to visit my store at 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