Here's a quote from myself about how the Hyper 212 performed on a 4.4GHz run, and achieving 65☌.Ĩ600K 5GHz 1.3V run with my Arctic Freezer 33 eSports One - 68☌ max But that's not impressive, let me talk about why. I've used this cooler and taken it through a lot of overclock runs on Cinebench, I was thoroughly surprised when I found it only ever reached 70☌ on a 5GHz overclock on my 8600K.
Once you manage to install it with great difficulty, next comes the cooler's actual performance, yet another reason as to why nobody should ever consider the Hyper 212 as a CPU cooler. The mounting's difficulty is so immense that because of this alone, I advise against the Hyper 212, even if you can secure one of these for £25. I myself actually spent 45 minutes to install the whole tower cooler in my first build and even had to Discord videocall a friend to help me out. This problematic mounting method alone points a red flag towards particularly novice and first-time builders. attempt to try and work out how on Earth to get the X-bracket aligned with both the heatsink's base and the mounting screws from the backplate Install backplate onto back of motherboardĤ. With the Hyper 212, things are particularly different.Ģ. I am telling you all right now, new builder or not, to not buy the Hyper 212, and here's why.įirst things first, before you're able to use the cooler, you have to install it. Hi, I'm seoz, and I've had first-hand experience with this cooler, and it's disgusting how underpowered this cooler is for the £25 I paid for it.