Lets start with the looks, nothing special, but then neither are any coolers of this style. But have Coolermaster cut corners somewhere to bring it to market at this price point? In essence, is it 'cheap' or is it inexpensive and good value? £23.98 is not a lot of money for a cooler of this type. So what do we make of the Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO? Well I think the first thing to bear in mind here is the price. Regretfully although at idle the cooler was able to stay at a reasonable delta T of 22 degrees, after only 5 minutes of Prime load testing the indicated temperatures exceeded the 90 degrees limit above which a cooler is considered to fail the test. The second test follows all steps from above but with a 200x21 1.35v for 4.2GHz overclock, the extra voltage in this test allows us to see if the heat-sink can cope when extreme loads and overclocks are applied. Testing in an Igloo or the Sahara would give vastly different maximum temperatures, yet the Delta could be the same. Delta is the temperature difference above ambient which is a truer reflection of the heat-sink performance rather than mere maximum figures. An average of all cores is taken, then the ambient temperature is removed from this figure and this gives us the delta temperature. We allow the system to idle for 10 minutes and then run Prime95 'maximum heat maximum stress' setting for a further 30 minutes.Īfter 30 minutes we note the temperatures of all cores and the ambient temperature of the room.

To provide continuity the test set up is as alwaysįor the first test we set our i7-950 overclocked to 200x20 1.25v for a clock speed of 4.0GHz.

Cooler master hyper 212 evo review 2017