Review: Cooler Master Hyper 412S Tower Cooler
Published by Marc Büchel on 08.12.11Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| With the Hyper 412S, Cooler Master has a CPU cooler in its portfolio that offers some potential for improvement. For the performance you get the price should for example be lower. Furhtermore we didn't like the mounting kit. It is tedious and the pressure with which it puts the cooler onto the CPU is too low. A higher pressure might even increase cooling capacity because of better heat exchange. But fortunately there are also things we liked about this cooler. For example there is a fan that offers PWM functionality and the cooler can also be equipped with two fans. | - PWM fan - Pull and Push capable | - Performance - Price - Mounting-Kit |
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| Installation | + | - | |
| The installation process could really be easier then it actually is. Generally the installation is more complicated than it needs to be. Just one example at this point: the screws have a special profile which should keep them in place. But in reality the screws still have space to rotate and you anyway need to fix the screws with nuts from the backside of the board. So there is no need for this kind of profile. Furhtermore there is the retaining bracket which could be of a stiffer material. This material it is made of at the moment is quite flexible and therefore the springs need to be quite soft and the pressure with which the cooler is being pushed onto the CPU is lower than it could be. | - Compatible with Intel and AMD sockets | -
Manufacturing Quality - Ergonomics |
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| Performance | + | - | |
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If you drive your Cooler Master fan at twelve volts it's well audible. We recommend to make use of PWM feature or the adaptor which is in the box. As we drove the fans at seven Volts, with 700 - 900 rotations per minute it was almost noiseless but there also was a decrease in cooling capacity. If you should make use of the adaptor there wont be much headroom left for overclocking. Nevertheless cooling capacity isn't too bad with a low rpm fan. |
- Noiseless at 7v - Silent Adaptor | - Performance | |
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In Switzerland the Cooler Master Hyper 412S comes at a price of CHF 49.90.- (est. EUR 41.60). In Germany you can get this cooler at about 35 Euro. For 50 Swiss Francs you can also get a Gelid GX-7 which offers better cooling and an easier to handle mounting kit. For only two Swiss Francs more there are other even better alternatives. If you could live with this coolers mounting kit and you really want a Cooler Master product, then your good to go for the Hyper 412S. |
- Desktop-PC - Gamer |
- Overclocker |
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