Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo - High temps

Trojan Horse

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Hi,

The Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo was a really annoying installation for me.. It was especially hard not finding any AMD instals on it, just damned intel installs.

Anyways I have some questions about this:

Some how I have managed to get the mother boarded stand off (the fat one connecting to the back of the motherboard) stuck to the universal retention clip.. it wont come off; at all.

Now secondly the more important problem is that I have had to leave out screwing a corner of the retention clip in.. because it wont fit, I've tried moving the screw up to down but I would have to put so much pressure on it, it would likely break the mobo. It looks OK as it is though, it is solid and secure , but will it cause problems?

Now I have the Cooler master fan on the left hand side of the massive cooler, (I snapped the fans side retainer clip by accident, and used the second one provided) and it faces my exhaust fan.. directly.

I feel a lot of air blowing out the back, but when I put my hand in the middle of the case exhaust and the cooler master fan.. it seems really confusing :confused:

Now, my Phenom II X4 965 BE @ Stock clocks is at a vcore of 1.44.

Temps are around 44c min, 56-57 max.

The temps should not be happening, right? I guess they are really ****.. I haven't even ****ing overclocked.. -.-


I also have two Arctic f12s on the top of my fan, one on the side, and one of the back as well as one next to the PSU. I have around 5 case fans but I don't really know how to airflow it properly
 
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Where to start...

Voltage seems high for stock.

Doesn't matter if it's secure or not, if it's not installed properly or the pressure is uneven.

Thermal paste maybe not applied properly.

You have your CPU fan as exhaust instead of intake. you will loose a bit of efficiency.

Check the fan speed and fan profile.

Never use force. Do it once, but do it right!
 
Hi.

Thanks

I've overclocked CPU to 3.9 ghz and am running on 1.44v for stock.. should I down the volts or is that too dangerous? and if so should I go down in .01 (1.43) or is that too big of a leap?

I will most likely re-apply my MX-2, but does it matter if I touch my finger on the paste by accident? (I cant seem to ever apply paste and then attach the cooler without getting that crap on my hands)

How do I know which side is intake/exhaust? I cant put the fan on the right side of the cooler (because of RAM) but if it stays on left side is it still OK if I switch around the fan to intake (the top fans could exhaust air?)

Hmm.. could I use the second pair of DIMM slots (B1 or something) as my primary RAM slots or is that really unefficient? If need be I can always purchase low profile 8GB vengeance for A1, and use B1 for the other pair?



I really cant seem to ****ing install the CPU cooler. Please can you give me a really indepth AMD tutorial? Most of the Intel crap doesnt apply with my system unfortunately :(

Thanks for helping me, I know there is a lot of stuff that are wrong but I hope to fix it.


P.S I waited for like 2-4 days and now my temps have seemed to lowered dramatically.

When I have my fans all on 100% (gaming, I cant hear them with my big ol' headset) my temps with a CPU @3.9GHZ MIN: 34C MAX: 55c

are those temps good? or should I still re-apply the thermal paste and re-apply the cooler itself?
 
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MX-2 doesn't have a curing time, the coolermaster coolers are quite awkward to install. I know because I have a 612S. I have never had thermal paste on my fingers doing it though. Just put a small rice sized blob of thermal paste and let the cooler spread it out with the pressure. No reason for your hands to come in contact with the cpu or heatsink base during install?

Youtube?

Look's easier than the 612S, with 612S you have to have the motherboard upside down lol.

Just follow that video. :) Less is more with thermal paste imo.
 
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Trojan Horse said:
When I have my fans all on 100% (gaming, I cant hear them with my big ol' headset) my temps with a CPU @3.9GHZ MIN: 34C MAX: 55c

are those temps good? or should I still re-apply the thermal paste and re-apply the cooler itself?
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These seems expected temperatures for an almost 4GHz clock. The real test is prime 95 blend, but you should not really go above 60C on prime.

Those temps look decent enough. Although I'm not a AMD specialist.

For the 212+, the installation should be the same for the 212 evo.



then, 15:30


If you installed it along those lines, then there isn't much you can do to improve. Since it's direct contact heatpipe, and the pipes are very close together, I'd put a thin layer on the CPU cover, spreading technique, finger wrapped in a plastic bag like in the second video.

If the base was very flat and clean, a blob in the middle, and let the pressure do the spreading. But the 212 Evo doesn't have a clean contact surface.
 
Thanks guys!

I will re-do everything just to be on the safe side.. the cooler is a little ***** and refuses to stay proper.

I'm going to do the "let the cooler squash the thermal ****" method, as I've found it to b e most effective and pretty darn easy.

Thanks guys! I'll update you in later on with the finished result ;)

BTW; is it OK if I have the thermal paste on the CPU or the cooler? IK it wont make much difference.. I just dont want to make any mistakes. :)
 
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Always on the CPU, get it dead center. The die on my cpu is vertical, so I like to put a tiny vertical grain of rice.
 
Thanks.

I just re-installed.. and it was a heck of a lot easier! Not because of the video .. but because once I re-read the instructions calmly.. It told me to simultaneously screw the retention clip on diagnolly.

At the time I was like wtf??? but then I realised once you screw a bit down, the other opposite raises which was why I had to put in a lot of pressure. So I screwed a little bit on both sides then secured it later.

I couldn't find any youtube vids that explained that, or even talked about the force required... a guy with decent knowledge should do it.. and not just a quickie 2 min ******. :)

Thanks and please close the thread.

P.S - would love if people can tell me how to notice which way a fan blows (I have all of mine set to exhaust but I feel cool air coming in through the front, despite when I put my behind all of my fans I feel warm air coming)
 
Most fans have a pair of arrows molded on the side on them , one shows air flow direction and the other is rotation.
 
Thanks stulid.

No mine doesn't have that.

I'm guessing when I put some tissue in front of it, I will be able to tell? :P

My fans don't really suck in properly, only when the tissue is like 0.6cm away from the fan does it catch the fan. I guess they are crappy exhaust fans. Is that normal, or which can I pick up some nice exhaust fans?
 
Just a quick extra,i have the 212+ with my 955,put my ram on the outside 2 slots as they didnt fit in the two closest the socket,works perfect,also fitted a fan either side of the heatsink,and blows out the top,i think this is the only way am3 socket will go.
 
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