💨 Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler: Efficient Cooling for AMD Ryzen/Intel LG1151 Processors Review

I've been a supporter and member of the PC development community from the start and have seen quite a few CPU coolers over the years. Anything with enough thermal mass distribution in front of a big enough fan will cool your processor down to reasonable temperatures, that's not an issue here. The problem isn't the ability to perform its function, but the complete lack of engineering that went into this design, especially the design of the installation, which can leave you in a worse position…

I was very excited when I found a fan to fit my brother's computer motherboard, but I didn't even have time to install it. I'm sure the fan would have been great but during its installation the screw heads loosened like wet bread and came loose when installing the fan onto the motherboard, I thought it might be a defective screw that I could work around but then the second one did it! Now I can't even reinstall the old fan because I now have broken screws stuck in my motherboard even after…

This thing is huge, a little harder to install than the stock fan, but the benefits are even greater. Pros: - The temperature of the processor has become 25 degrees below average. The system is also ridiculously cold due to airflow (see next plus). - Airflow is much easier to design with a vertical fan that blows from front to back - An optional second 120mm fan can be installed with the included bracket - Inexpensive. - Universal, can be used for many chipsets, so if you ever do a new build…

Once the gasket is in place, installing this cooler is much, much, much easier and doesn't feel like the painful experience described below. This is because the distance the hex bolt has to travel is much less. Cooler Master can make this process even easier by changing the pattern to mark the screw and actual gasket with a hole in the bottom. See attached drawings "E and D", the left without black filling in the hole, the right drawing with filling in the hole. Cooler Master: Please make this…

The cooler itself works perfectly. After testing room temperature, GPU temp, and CPU temp for my stock AMD cooler (FX series), my CPU was 17°C cooler and my GPU was 4°C cooler. I mounted mine vertically (hot air outlet on top of case). But my problem is the fan. You can see from the picture the fan is cheap and the Cooler Master would get a five star rating and would be a better product if it wasn't included at all. My problem is that it actually rumbles, or rather, my turret sounds like a…

I'll start with what I didn't like. instructions sucks. They tell you to apply thermal paste to your processor before installing the bracket behind the motherboard. Due to the vague illustrations, it wasn't clear to me when leafing through the instructions that you need a bracket behind the mainboard. Simply put, I had to apply thermal paste to it twice as it is impossible to remove the motherboard from the case, attach the mounting bracket, and put the motherboard back in without smearing the…