Coolermaster Hyper 212 - Thoughts

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Hi all

will be upgrading my freezer 7 pro soon and have been looking at the above cooler and runnning a twin fan setup, found it sub £20 delivered which is rather tempting!

Any people had experiences with the unit and is it going to be a good step up from the freezer?

thanks

Ben
 
Cheap and cheerful. Not the greatest step up tbh as the freezer is pretty capable for it's size, but if you're not looking for a massive improvement in temps then why not :)?

(Equally, if you're not going to get a massive temperature improvement then why bother but my glass is always BUY BUY BUY).
 
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yeah cooling power is an important factor, i just saw it did pretty well in some reviews beating a fenrir!

http://www.guru3d.com/article/cooler-master-hyper-212-plus-review/7
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Looks pretty good.

I seem to remember reading a review which said that its temps weren't amazing at load when overclocked but on par with most mid price coolers. If you want a really noticeable cooling improvement I'd consider getting a megahalem or going for something more extreme but based on those benchies (and that price!) it looks well worth the money.

EDIT: oops didn't see it was a 212+ in the review :). Still, hard to beat it for price : performance.
 
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I actually phoned ocuk this morning asking about these. Seems they won't have any stock for at least a week :(, although as you say you can find them slightly cheaper else where once you add in 1st class post (which oc give me free) is ~£19 without oc service if it goes wrong in future. Oh and most of the other places with it listed are also waiting on stock, so it must be a supply issue. Best I could find won't get here to Friday :(

Still, for the money it's the best you'll get. Pretty much replacing the freezer 7 as the go to budget cooler and it's the only cheap one the mounts front to back on am3. Plus you can always shove an akasa viper on to improve temps/noise :p
 
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i was going to the do the same in the morning lol.....

I am not worried about a wait as new motherboard needs to arrive yet, I actually found it for £14.99 delivered! but as you say....despatched in 4-5 days :(
 
I put one on a 955BE, temps are fine with a modest 3.8GHz overclock. I used it as its one of the (very) few sub £20 coolers that you can use east/west as well as north/south on AM3.
 
Well it showed up yesterday, literally 20 min after I'd finished switching mobos, memtest was still running *swore*.

Anyway, the mx-4 has had time to squeeze into the grooves, mounting was easy even if the instructions we pictures that might as well have been potage-stamps :rolleyes: but it was just a cast of tightening opposing screws until they hit washers once the backplate was on (you'll need a long handled philips - chubby won't fit). The bad part was I received a rev.1 meaning it came with wire to attach the fan - tricky to mount - while the rev.2 ones come with plastic clips. The fan itself has rubber pads in the airflow direction, with specs similar to the viper: 600-2000 rpm, 21.2-76.8 CFM and a quoted 13-32db. Basically it spins faster than a viper and shifts less air while being as loud however the viper is a deep whirring while the coolermaster has a higher pitch* which cuts through other noises including m16s in bc2. Although this is subjective, I envisage this becoming an issue once summer hits I see myself buying a secondary viper to replace it. It is however, utterly silent below 1500rpm (where the whine appears) makinig it a decent case fan.

Still, the fan left on pwm stops giving out speed reading around 500/450rpm, which is what it drops to when idling at 30 which is impressing once you realise the bios won't drop the pwn intake fan (akasa viper) below 1050rpm (1150 once the room temp is ~ 20/21c). I've had prime running for the past 30min with the core sitting at 49c, fan at 1400 and it isn't audible over the (silent) case fans. It hits 1650 rpm with linpack and ~51c. With pwm off there's little difference, 1 degree at best in both idle and load temps suggesting the the cooler is the limitation so the extra noise isn't worth it imo.

Makes the freezer 7 look like an amateurs attempts at a cooler compared to this. Best £18 I've spent :D

*might just be a bad fan
 
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