Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus/EVO Club - Page 397

He said 212EVO, so it's xTraFlo 120, and not the Blade Master

Still it should be good for 4GHz

I got a question for you guys: I have 6 fans in my case (not including my 212+ fan), but after installing my 212+ heat sink, I noticed my pc got significantly louder. I then took my side panel off while my computer was running and placed my finger on the center of the 212+ fan to slow it down a bit and it got MUCH quieter. Does the 212+ fan run at full speed 24/7? I thought the 212+ was suppose to be quite, according to many reviews.

Also, for reference, I own a coolermaster storm scout with all stock fans runnings. I've also added 3 extra low-speed yate loon fans (2 in the 5.25 drive bays and on the left side of the hdd cage).

Do you have it plugged into the PWM fan header on your motherboard?? If so, do you have the motherboard set to control the fan speeds automatically??

yeah, it's connected to my motherboard's PWM fan header. And I have no idea if my motherboard is controlling its fan speed nor do I even know how to do that. lol

The settings are in the BIOS.

Yeah it shouldn't be loud at all, I can't even hear any of the fans in my computer unless I put my head right next to it.

I knocked my 1600 RPM Scythe thin case fan down to 75% voltage and that seems to have done the trick for noise.

Quoting myself, just to show how much improvement you can get with Blade Masters on 212EVO. Regardless of what I was told earlier lol, I mounted push-pull on my 212. Figured I can always buy a better, more faster fan for my back panel if necessary. But having 2, identical & stock Blade Masters on my 212 somehow seemed natural, a perfectly logical thing to do, so there you have it
Improvement? Let's just say that my TOP temperature, on "maximum" Intel Burn test doesn't exceed 65C, and even that is the peak temperature, it's spiking between 61 and 65, even drops to 58 sometimes. And I'm talking about the hottest core, not about the coldest one!
As for the regular, every-day use, my temp dropped by 10C

There was also one other reason why I decided to use push-pull over the standard configuration... I've noticed that EVO coolers have a nasty habit of blowing a lot of excess air between the heatsink & the actual fan. Probably because those plastic fan clips are thick, and make a wider gap between those 2. On the other hand, original 212+ and TX3 had those metal clips, which snapped into the heatsink and pulled the fan close together, as tight as it can get. So, by having push pull, I wanted to assure that there's a continuous airflow through the radiator.

So, what's the conclusion of all this? If you have the original Hyper212+, great! it really is the greatest cooler of that type, affordable & easy to use. If you have the EVO version, make sure to get yourself a new fan, Blade Master 120! Seriously, it'll be totally worth the effort, at least in my opinion. Even if you're one of those guys who worry over the noise level, don't! Because they really don't generate that much noise, my system is pretty silent at 1930RPM (according to BIOS), and both fans are set to max. (I had a LOT more noise with Hyper TX3, push-pull)

Plz feel free to ask if you have any questions & enjoy these pics