Installation
As you can see in the pictures above, the installation of the backplate and heatsink are a breeze. Thanks Cooler Master for the effortless design. Now as far as where you plan on putting the cooler in your rig can vary in difficulty. Just keep in mind the bottle neck for most cases are going to be the length of the hoses.
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.
Now we get to the good stuff the results. I apologize for my cooling catalogue being rather slim, but as more coolers come in we will continue to grow this list. As you can see in the graph below we have the Idle temps for the Masterliquid ML240P Mirage. This chip hovers at a cool 25 degrees Celsius. Almost ambient temps!
Alright LOAD temps! The ones that really matter. The Masterliquid ML240P Mirage faired pretty well coming in at 44.75 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 Pro 240!
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 ML240P Mirage. As you can see in the graph above the fans at full speed hit 34 dBs. Just to note, the actually hearable noise from the fans are not distracting at all.
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Now lets move on to the Conclusion and Verdict!
