Cooler Master V10 CPU Cooler Review

Installation

V10 comes with three sets of holding clips: one for AMD CPUs, one for Intel socket LGA775 CPUs and a third one for socket LGA1366 processors. All of them have a piece that is screwed to the cooler and a metal structure that stays under the motherboard.

Figure 11: Socket LGA775 holder.

This system is good because the cooler stays very firm in place and it does not bend the mot
herboard, but the problem is that you must remove the motheboard from the chassis in order to install the cooler, unless your case has a window on the motherboard tray that allows you to access the motherboard back side.

Figure 12: Holder under the motherboard.

In Figure 13, you can see V10 installed on our motherboard. It’s really a huge cooler. Our greatest fear, however, did not come true: we thought our memory modules would not fit under the cooler, because they have very tall heatsinks, but they fit perfectly.

Figure 13: Installed.

Installing the motherboard back into the case, however, was a very hard task. As the cooler covers almost half the motherboard, fastening the screws under it is complicated. Connecting power cables was difficult too.

Figure 14: Installed in our case.

In Figure 15, you can see how V10 looks when working. Its fans glow with red LEDs.

Figure 15: LEDs glowing.