Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo Review
airman - December 5, 2011» Discuss this article (13)
Testing and Setup:
Testing of this heatsink will involve applying a load simulated by Prime95, using small FFTs in stock and overclocked scenarios, where both idle and load temperatures will be recorded. Load temperatures will be the maximum value displayed in RealTemp after running eight threads in Prime95 for one hour, and idle temperatures will be the minimum recorded value by RealTemp with no computer usage during a period of one hour. The temperature values for each of the four cores will be averaged and displayed in the graphs below. The ambient temperature is held at a constant 23 °C throughout testing of the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo as well as the comparison units. All the data shown in the graphs below is in degrees Celsius. The included thermal paste from Cooler Master will be used during testing and thermal pastes on other heatsinks from their respective manufacturers will be used. The fans on each cooler will be run at full speed for these tests.
Testing Setup:
- Processor: Intel Core i7 920 - Stock and @ 3.44ghz, 1.27v
- Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
- Motherboard: MSI X58 Platinum SLI
- Memory: Mushkin Blackline PC3 16000 9-9-9-24 1600MHz
- Video Card: XFX HD6970 2GB
- Power Supply: Mushkin 1000 watt Joule Modular power supply
- Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 1TB SATA
- Optical Drive: Lite-On DVD-RW
- OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
- Case: Corsair Graphite Series 600T
Comparison Heatsinks:
- Stock Intel heatsink
- Cooler Master Hyper 612 PWM
- NZXT Havik 140
- Corsair H60
- Noctua NH-D14
- Noctua NH-U12P SE
What we see here is a completely expected trend, as far as the Hyper 212 Evo's individual results go. Being a direct contact heatpipe cooler, I expected low idle temperatures in both the stock and overclocked scenarios. For the load temperatures, I expected the opposite due to the lesser weight/overall size of the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo compared to the other coolers. Regardless, this cooler put up some great results!

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