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This air cooler is built to be able to keep your PC icy fresh, regardless of the strain and stress it's put under.
"Hello everyone and welcome to another Gamereactor Quick Look.
Just because those are the types of products that a lot of partners tend to send us, we tend to focus a lot on AIOs when you want to cool your CPU inside your gaming computer, for a variety of reasons."
"But, we should really not neglect that a lot of consumers out there tend to not want to bother with AIOs.
For one, they are more advanced to mount, a lot of people might find it to be trivial, but I don't think a lot of entryway customers see it that way necessarily.
They put, let's say they have demands on the type of spacing that is available inside your rig."
"So, there is a good case to be made for a simple CPU fan cooler such as this, but this is not simple.
This is Cooler Master's V4 Alpha 3D HP in black.
And the one thing that I will say right out the bat is that it is more pretty than I thought it would be.
Obviously, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, even with pretty hardcore consumer tech like this, but it's such a simple and I think elegant piece of design, where particularly these two metal pieces here really blend together well with the matte black plastics of it all."
"Obviously, it's not all plastic as we'll get into, but the point is that I think it is a sleek looking piece of hardware.
Now, the reason it is called the 3D HP is because it uses Cooler Master's, inside here you won't be able to tell, but it is in the middle, it's Cooler Master's proprietary 3D vapor chamber, that is why it's called 3D HP.
It is a 3D vapor chamber technology which merges a copper base with heat pipes into a single continuous vacuum loop for hyper-efficient thermal dissipation."
"Now, whether or not that is true is, well, with these types of things, the proof really is in the pudding.
So, we will have to test this properly in order to tell you whether this works.
But, vapor chambers in this particular regard, particularly given this amount of space, should really have really efficient cooling, particularly very efficient cooling compared to the noise levels that you're expected to get."
"Now, there are four high-performance composite copper heat pipes here, which is seemingly integrated into the 3D vapor chamber base, and you get these dual, there's one on each side, of PMW 120mm black fans, which is configured in what is called a pull-push or push-pull configuration for optimized static pressure and airflow."
"The fan speed is said to be around between 600 and 2000 RPM, and what that noise is expected to be is around 28 decibels.
Now, is that a lot? That is very hard to tell you, but it sounds, compared to my knowledge on general noise levels and knowing and being able to attribute them to a decibel rating, that sounds really low.
But, obviously, one of the things that we're going to have to notice is basically the pitch of the noise rather than the volume of the noise."
"Now, as I said, it is very stealthy aesthetics with an all-black coating across this aluminum fin stack with heat pipes, top cover, and hardware.
It looks great, I think.
There is a lot of socket compatibility right here, so Intel's, it's LGA851, 1790, 1200, and 115X, I believe.
There's also socket compatibility for AMD's AM5 and AM4."
"So, does it work well? That is really hard to tell you in a Game Ractor Quick Look.
But what we will do is that we will look at it closely, and we'll be able to tell you very soon.
For now, it seems like Cooler Master has made a really good one-size-fits-all CPU cooler that utilizes this really clever vapor chamber tech, and I can't wait to see it in action. See you."
