so today I'm going to be having a look at The Cooler Master hyper 212 plus this
is a very popular uh value heat sync
because it provides nearly the performance of much more expensive heat
sinks it has a wide range of compatibility including core i7 Core i5
core I3 and am3 so it fits on basically anything and it also features some
traditionally more expensive high-end features like heat pipe direct touch as
well as a 120 mm fan and in add addition
to that it also works with a dual fan and push pull so you can you can really
load this thing up like you can't really do with a lot of lower end heat sinks in
this sort of a price range so it didn't look like there was a seal on here but
it turns out that there is and I'm going to have to get like a key or something
to break the seal you know I really should have a knife on hand ahead of
time for doing these but ah you know what I'm just going to peel the sticker
off that would work better yes there we go
that worked out really well for me okay so let's see what we're going to find
inside of the Box first we will find a plastic clamshell style of packaging
okay and then let's see what we got in here in terms of accessories so there we
go all right so first thing we find a
multi back plate so this back plate is compatible with am3 as well as lga8 775
1156 and 1366 it has all the necessary
holes and and you can see from the way that they lift it up that is how they
get compatibility with both Intel and AMD because with Intel this will sit
flush with the back or it'll have to lift up over the 1366 back plate but
with AMD it actually has a significantly larger back plate that it has to oh no
wait no I guess with AMD they're not even oh this is kind of okay now I'm a
little bit confused I'm not going to pretend to know how this mounts because
it looks like there's like some kind of a sticker backing on the back here okay
forget it all right moving forward we
have more accessories including an instruction manual which is tucked into
the back of the little fan shell so I'll go ahead and pull up the instruction manual first maybe maybe on camera I can
figure out exactly how that backplate works so wow this is like huge okay
first of all there's your warranty information slip okay so that's going to
tell you all about the warranty in a bunch of different languages wow that's
a lot of different languages it's like nine on each side even has Serbian and
Turkish awesome I love it you can tell a company is is properly International
when you know I mean here same thing here's our instruction guide wow that is
like everything check this
out and then all along the other side
all these different languages okay so the English one says how do we do this
oh I was right the first time it looks like for LGA 1156
the back plate actually um lifts up off the back okay whereas for
AMD we're actually using the back plate
looking thing on yeah we flip it around the other
way okay I get it so for AMD you put it on this way for Intel you put it on this
way yes there we go we figured it out
awesome okay so inside here we're going to find all of the other mounting
hardware that we need including the hold down for the front so you can I mean
this is very obvious you can see this is for AMD that's for Intel and then these can
be moved back and forth I'm not sure if they slide or if you have to actually
take them out I can't tell but these will actually move in and out depending
Which Intel you are using 775 1156 or
1366 very ingenious hold down this uh
looks like some kind of fan Mount yep
all right and then in here we'll find yeah the rest of to the hardware I'm not
going to go and pull out all these screws I don't want to lose them but that's all the other stuff you'll need
as well as some Cooler Master thermal paste nice of them to include that for
you all right okay so let's have a look
at the heat pipe cooler itself so the fan is pre-attached oh yeah I get it
okay so these additional Clips here are they they even include the clips for you
so you can put these on either side and then you can attach your second fan
right out of the box if you have another fan and you have four mounting screws for it that's terrific Okay so as I
mentioned before this is a heat pipe direct touch cooler so that means the
heat pipes are all flattened along the bottom so they actually do make direct
contact with your CPU I wouldn't be doing this right if I didn't do the obligatory shininess shot so you can see
that they are quite shiny and the surface does appear to be quite flat but
really eyeballing it is not very useful um it comes down to Performance data and
the hyper is a very good performer for the money so oh yeah we I should mention
this there are four heat pipes and they do go up both sides of the cool cooler
okay and you can see that they come out the top here it's 120 mm big and the fan
is actually kind of unique looking this is this is a fan blade shape that I
haven't really seen before you see how it's kind of like a wavy shape rather
than a more straight swept blade so that's kind of nice too I've heard that
this cooler is actually quite silent but I don't actually have somewhere to hook
it up right now I think that pretty much concludes everything I wanted to
demonstrate about the hyper 212 plus so thank you for checking out my unboxing
and first look and I'm just going to sort of give you some more angles here
to check it out there's your Cooler Master logo on the top thank you for
checking out my unboxing