Acoustics
Noise is generally the bain of most consumers lives and in the hope of finding the quietest operation, we feel it’s necessary to show you the audio level of components. We use the same components throughout this test and use a sound level meter to record the audio level of the system. Once we have the level recorded at idle, we simulate a load using software and measure the level again.
To measure the acoustics, we placed our sound level meter 2cm away from the unit as anything further away had trouble picking up any noise from the cooler. The rest of our system was silent and the ambient sound in the room was around 30dBA. At 52.8dBA on idle, it may seem high to some, but is actually quite a low amount of noise and on idle is barely audiable. On load, you can hear a distinct difference but it’s not something you would mind so much when gaming of playing a movie, which is when you are likely to hike things up in the fan speed department anyway.
Not a fan of these large coolers, much prefair the low profile coolers such as the Vortex Plus, I have a Scythe low cooler at the moment, pretty quite, so if I was changing it then the Vortex woud suit. And that is a good price from Scan.
The v8 has always been considered overpriced lately, but price drops lately may actually make it decent value.
Damn, that is one nice looking engine…I mean cooler. Nice pics. Like to list of Pros versus Cons.
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It looks like a transformer in disguise. 🙂
The V8 has been here for years… This review wants to tell everyone that it's still one of the greatest coolers out there.