Performance
Test setup and Testing Methodology
The system used for testing is listed in the table below. Ambient temperatures were kept at 24 degrees Celsius +/- 1 degree. The thermal paste used was Noctua’s NT-H2 (for testing consistency). The cool and quite mode was disabled to prevent the CPU idling at lower voltages to attain accurate temperatures at idle. The fan speed was set to Full. The idle temperatures were recorded after 10 minutes of idle and max temperatures were recorded after a 5 minute torture test using Adia 64 System Stability Test and recording the Cores values.
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8600K @ 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) |
| Cooling | Cooler Master Masterliquid ML240L V2 RGB |
| Motherboard | Asus ROG Maximus X Hero Z370 |
| Ram | Zadak Spark RGB DDR4-4133 32GB Kit |
| HDD | Samsung 960 EVO 250GB PCIE M.2 SSD |
| PSU | Antec Signature Series 1000W |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Now we get to the good stuff the results. As you can see in the graph below we have the Idle temps for the Masterliquid ML240L V2 RGB. This chip hovers at a cool 26.5 degrees Celsius. Almost ambient temps!
Alright LOAD temps! The ones that really matter. The Masterliquid ML240L V2 RGB faired pretty well coming in at 44.25 degrees Celsius. Only time will tell where this cooler will rank in future tests but I am pretty confidant it will compete with the best of them as the cooler manages to out do the Coolermaster MasterLiquid ML240P Mirage!
Noise can be a important factor for some. If we have a open case design and the fans might be exposed, we don not want record setting noise coming from our cooler. This not the case with the Masterliquid ML240L V2 RGB. As you can see in the graph above the fans at full speed hit 37 dBs. Just to note, the actually hearable noise from the fans are not distracting at all.
Now lets move on to the Conclusion and Verdict!
