14 DAY TRIAL // We've seen more than our fair share of cooling devices, it's not as though we could escape it after covering technology news for so many years, but that doesn't mean there aren't any surprises left.
Cooler Master has just provided such a surprise, in the form of the V8 GTS cooler, which, though the name doesn't suggest it, is one of the most advanced air coolers ever.
In fact, the newcomer's design is so out there that we wonder if there even exist cases capable of fitting it.
After all, it's not every day that a cooler shows that has three heatsinks for a single CPU, and two fans cooling them.
That's right, the Cooler Master V8 GTS has three fin arrays, held together and connected to the CPU through a whole bunch of direct-contact heatpipes (eight in total).
Between that and the size of the monster (about as wide as memory modules are long, and we're not kidding), there are few, if any, CPUs it cannot cool.
Case in point, the top TDP (thermal design power) that Cooler Master's V8 GTS can cope with is 250W, which even most high-tier Intel CPUs don't reach.
The Horizontal Vapor Chamber (HVC) Technology is implemented as well, the one usually employed on graphics cards.
To make it work on CPUs, Cooler master had to call on “highly advanced metal heat spreaders that draw heat away from a single or multiple heat sources.”
“The Vapor Chamber aspect is the hollow interior of the HVC structure that is filled with coolant that cycles between evaporation and precipitation to circulate within the container,” the company explains in its announcement.
Cooler Master V8 GTS will start selling next month (August 2013) in the US and Canada. Sadly, the price is unknown, but it will surely be as massive as this beast's physical frame.