Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus Heatpipe HDT CPU Cooling Heatsink Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,153 words · ~5 min read
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so today I'm going to be having a look at The Cooler Master hyper 212 plus this
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is a very popular uh value heat sync
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because it provides nearly the performance of much more expensive heat
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sinks it has a wide range of compatibility including core i7 Core i5
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core I3 and am3 so it fits on basically anything and it also features some
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traditionally more expensive high-end features like heat pipe direct touch as
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well as a 120 mm fan and in add addition
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to that it also works with a dual fan and push pull so you can you can really
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load this thing up like you can't really do with a lot of lower end heat sinks in
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this sort of a price range so it didn't look like there was a seal on here but
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it turns out that there is and I'm going to have to get like a key or something
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to break the seal you know I really should have a knife on hand ahead of
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time for doing these but ah you know what I'm just going to peel the sticker
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off that would work better yes there we go
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that worked out really well for me okay so let's see what we're going to find
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inside of the Box first we will find a plastic clamshell style of packaging
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okay and then let's see what we got in here in terms of accessories so there we
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go all right so first thing we find a
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multi back plate so this back plate is compatible with am3 as well as lga8 775
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1156 and 1366 it has all the necessary
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holes and and you can see from the way that they lift it up that is how they
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get compatibility with both Intel and AMD because with Intel this will sit
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flush with the back or it'll have to lift up over the 1366 back plate but
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with AMD it actually has a significantly larger back plate that it has to oh no
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wait no I guess with AMD they're not even oh this is kind of okay now I'm a
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little bit confused I'm not going to pretend to know how this mounts because
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it looks like there's like some kind of a sticker backing on the back here okay
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forget it all right moving forward we
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have more accessories including an instruction manual which is tucked into
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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
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figure out exactly how that backplate works so wow this is like huge okay
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first of all there's your warranty information slip okay so that's going to
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tell you all about the warranty in a bunch of different languages wow that's
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a lot of different languages it's like nine on each side even has Serbian and
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Turkish awesome I love it you can tell a company is is properly International
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when you know I mean here same thing here's our instruction guide wow that is
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like everything check this
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out and then all along the other side
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all these different languages okay so the English one says how do we do this
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oh I was right the first time it looks like for LGA 1156
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the back plate actually um lifts up off the back okay whereas for
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AMD we're actually using the back plate
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looking thing on yeah we flip it around the other
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way okay I get it so for AMD you put it on this way for Intel you put it on this
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way yes there we go we figured it out
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awesome okay so inside here we're going to find all of the other mounting
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hardware that we need including the hold down for the front so you can I mean
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this is very obvious you can see this is for AMD that's for Intel and then these can
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be moved back and forth I'm not sure if they slide or if you have to actually
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take them out I can't tell but these will actually move in and out depending
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Which Intel you are using 775 1156 or
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1366 very ingenious hold down this uh
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looks like some kind of fan Mount yep
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all right and then in here we'll find yeah the rest of to the hardware I'm not
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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
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as well as some Cooler Master thermal paste nice of them to include that for
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you all right okay so let's have a look
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at the heat pipe cooler itself so the fan is pre-attached oh yeah I get it
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okay so these additional Clips here are they they even include the clips for you
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so you can put these on either side and then you can attach your second fan
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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
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mentioned before this is a heat pipe direct touch cooler so that means the
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heat pipes are all flattened along the bottom so they actually do make direct
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contact with your CPU I wouldn't be doing this right if I didn't do the obligatory shininess shot so you can see
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that they are quite shiny and the surface does appear to be quite flat but
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really eyeballing it is not very useful um it comes down to Performance data and
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the hyper is a very good performer for the money so oh yeah we I should mention
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this there are four heat pipes and they do go up both sides of the cool cooler
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okay and you can see that they come out the top here it's 120 mm big and the fan
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is actually kind of unique looking this is this is a fan blade shape that I
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haven't really seen before you see how it's kind of like a wavy shape rather
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than a more straight swept blade so that's kind of nice too I've heard that
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this cooler is actually quite silent but I don't actually have somewhere to hook
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it up right now I think that pretty much concludes everything I wanted to
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demonstrate about the hyper 212 plus so thank you for checking out my unboxing
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and first look and I'm just going to sort of give you some more angles here
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to check it out there's your Cooler Master logo on the top thank you for
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checking out my unboxing