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

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Without the fan it would have been five stars.

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 geiger counter, all because the crappy fan is badly mounted. I didn't know this was a problem with the 212 Evo until I bought it and googled my problem, but it's very common on every forum I've seen. It's not worth removing the cooler, fixing it, waiting for a new one, etc., so I'll buy a twin pack of Corsair SP120's instead and should have better numbers after that. I will update the following numbers when I buy it. Average temperature after 15 minutes of inactivity, my CPU and GPU are overloaded:_______Standard AMD____212 Evo with CM____212 Evo fan with 2 SP120sRoom_____23.4*C_________23.4*C______23. 4*CCPU______51.0*C_________34.0*C______33.0*CGPU______34.0*C_________30.0*C______30.0*CS So while my new SP120 had little effect on standby (only 1*C lower), the awful noise of the Cooler Master fan is gone, and I bet that under full or gaming loads, these two fans will blow the original Cooler Master fan out of the water in terms of performance. I now have 7 Corsair SP and AF fans (some 140mm, some 120mm) and they all work flawlessly, both in terms of cooling my case and being silent. Hope this review helped!

Pros
  • Pleasant to use
Cons
  • old