The Hyper 212+ is a must-have heatsink for your CPU if you do not wish to pay for pricy water cooling.
-Price
Only $30, when most high-end heatsinks are priced at $50+ on NewEgg. If you want your CPU to run cooler for a cheap price, the Hyper 212+ is perfect.
-Instructions
The manual has two to three pictures each step, along with the most minimal of a sentence that describes what the pictures want you to do. You're better off watching the youtube video that Cooler Master uploaded.
-Installation
Once again, I strongly advise just throwing out the given instructions and view the video that Cooler Master has uploaded to youtube. Installing was a bit tricky at first, one of the nuts refused to go the entire length of the screw, needed pliers to force it the rest of the way. After attaching the backplate, the rest of the process went very smooth.
-Performance
I installed this heatsink to a week-old i5 750 CPU. Temps were running 45C idle with stock heatsink. After applying the Hyper 212+, the i5 dropped to 28C idle. I have yet to encounter temperatures above 35C on heavy load. Overclocking the i5 to 3.6GHz, the temps rise to 37C idle, which is simply amazing. I previously tried to O/C with the i5's stock heatsink, and the temp skyrocketed to 65C after booting Windows.
-Additional Info
Comes with a 120mm fan attached onto the heatsink. The metal clips make it very easy to remove the fan for heatsink installation. Has an extra two metal clips in case you would like to add an additional fan on the opposite side for more airflow. In terms of noise, my case fans are louder than the packaged 120mm fan. The PC is positioned about 10 feet away from my bed, and I have no trouble sleeping because of noise.
The 212+ also came with its own thermal paste, a great little addition for those not wanting to spend $10 for a couple uses.
The only negative standpoint I would have with this heatsink is the size. Luckily, my case has a sidepanel window which bows out, allotting JUST enough clearance for the Hyper 212+ to fit. Make sure you measure the inside of your case before purchasing!
Other than water cooling, I have yet to purchase a heatsink that decreases the temperature by such a drastic amount. It is a great product for a cheap price, and I will be purchasing this heatsink for every new rig I build. Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 120mm Sleeve CPU Cooler, RR-B10-212P-G1
I stumbled upon this item on accident. I was originally looking at the OCZ Vendetta II but decided to pick this up instead because it was $7 cheaper, excellent online reviews, and future-proof ability. Installation was a hastle because once more I had to remove motherboard from the CoolerMaster 690, but I enjoy the peace of mind with a well mounted hefty heatsink vs the push pins used by other heatsinks of the same proportions.
I have yet to take advantege of using dual 120mm fans, the factory fan seems to be suffice to keep my 3.75Ghz 1.36vcore e5200 consistant at 52C 24hrs on prime95. I cannot distinguish between the noise of this and the three other stock fans in my case except for my XFX9800GT's factory fan. I will recommend this to any enthusiast and even lable the product a "must have". I am looking forward to mounting this on a future planned socket 1366 or 1156. Have a good day.
Installed the Hyper 212+ on a Gigabyte P55-UD4p with Shin-Etsu thermal paste and an i5 750. With the stock fan, voltage was increased to 1.375 and the blclk was raised to 190, yielding 3.8Ghz per core. The 212+ maintains 61 C at full load under these settings. This is an excellent value heatsink that is capable of keeping a high end chip cool under overclocking conditions. The Hyper 212+ also made the top 10 heatsinks at [...].
Kudos to Coolermaster for having this cooler available at the i5 launch. Amazon "free shipping" was painfully slow though. Bad Amazon.
I bought the Hyper 212 Plus to replace the stock heatsink and fan of the Phenom II 720 BE and I couldn't be happier with the performance. My system is overclocked to 3.4 Ghz and with the stock HSF it was idling at a little over 40 C and at load reaching up to 74 C. With the Hyper 212 Plus I am now idling at 30 C and only 50 C at maximum load. The fan is reasonably quiet even when pushed to the limit.
Installation was very easy, even though it does require the removal of the motherboard. Unlike a lot of people, I found the instructions reasonably easy to understand. It makes me wonder how much effort some people put into trying to figure things out themselves before running to the internet complaining how the product or instructions are poorly designed. I am by no means a system building expert, in fact this is my first build aided only by internet forums and reviews on sites such as Amazon.
This HSF is rather large so it's a good idea to make sure it will fit your system before you buy. Generally speaking, if you have a 120 mm exhaust fan in the back of your case the Hyper 212 should fit fine. (It was incredibly close fit in my Cooler Master RC 310 case, the copper pipes are about 2 mm away from touching the side panel)
I am simply amazed by the performance of this HSF. Sure, there are better looking coolers out there, but you'll be hard-pressed to find one with a better bang-for-your-buck ratio than the Hyper 212 Plus.
This is a great CPU cooler for the price. I can push my i5-750 to 4 GHz while keeping temperatures around 60C. I've chosen to throttle it back to 3.6 GHz for 24/7 usage so I can run at a more modest 1.3V and keep the fan at 80% where it's nearly inaudible. The sites that test lots of CPU coolers have shown this to have good cooling and noise performance.
My Gigabyte motherboard doesn't offer much control over the fan speed so I'm using the free SpeedFan program to control the speed for different temperature levels. At idle the processor is 38C and the fan is set to a silent 70%. At full load the processor is 53C and the fan is barely audible at 80%. I like my computer to be quiet.
The mounting bracket is a bit fussy but I had it mounted in 10 minutes or so. It has a backplate which is a good thing because it allows a tighter clamp and puts less stress on the motherboard. I'm cheap and I used the thermal paste that came with it.'
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