Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler (RR-212E-20PK-R1)

Introduction:

This is a very cool cooling for Cooler Master. They have managed to price is extremely well, while maintaining great cooling performance. It has been able to keep my 3570K at 4.2ghz at 50C while folding.

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Review:

This cooler is pretty straight forward. It has 4 copper heatpipes, that directly touch the CPU, this aids greatly in moving heat from the processor to the heatsink fins. The fins are placed fairly close together, but are still far apart enough to allow lots of airflow, and to keep it nice and cool.

Mounting the cooler was very easy with about 4 steps. The instructions have lots of pictures to explain how to mount it. It took me around three minutes in total to screw everything together and mount the cooler. It comes with some fairly decent thermal paste, but if you want the best cooling performance you may be better off looking for an aftermarket solution.

The cooler is fairly big, so it might not fit in some of those cheapo cases out there, but should fit in most performance mini towers, mid towers and full towers. I found on my P8Z77 that with both fans installed, it doesn't cover the ram slots at all, allowing very tall ram to be installed.

Now, I replaced the single fan with two fans off my V6GT, because the one that came with it was very slow (under 500RPM) for some reason. So I am using it in push/pull. It keeps my 3570K under 65C at 4.4ghz while folding, and under 90C running Intel Burn test.

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Conclusion:

Overall I am very impressed with this cooler. It offers excellent cooling performance at an insane price. Good job from Cooler Master!

This was my first aftermarket heatsink on my primary rig. I've owned this little monsta for about 6 months now and I loved it, even though its no longer installed in my main rig. Paired with my i5-3570K it did a good job at keeping temps at bay at 4.0Ghz and above. Now retired from my Intel rig, it now resides on my AMD HTPC, replacing its smaller CM TX3 cousin and still does a good job at preventing housefires.

Installation was a breeze for both 1155 sockets and AM3, the manual was very straight forward from the images that I didn't even had to read it. Comes with a sturdy backplate and spring loaded mounting bracket with extra plastic fan clips for a optional second fan installation. The kit also comes with its own thermal paste that seems to be on par with some good TIM such as MX-2 on temperature ratings. maintenance is hassle free as its easy to take fans off for dusting or remove the entire heatsink for deep cleaning with water, etc.

If someone is looking for a good cooler with little money to burn, This heatsink would be the first I'd recommend.
Just make sure your case can fit it as It can be a tad too tall for some Micro-ATX cases to fit in since its about 160mm tall.