Final Thoughts on the Cooler Master Hyper 212 3DHP Black ARGB CPU Cooler
The Cooler Master Hyper 212 and its many iterations over the years have been pretty iconic and quite popular. The main reason for that has been its good performance relative to size and the price. And with the new Hyper 212 3DHP Black ARGB they accomplish both of those things as well.
Since we have the 3D heatpipe technology which makes the cooler more efficient, Cooler Master only needed two heatpipes opposed to four which we saw on previous Hyper 212 models. With less heatpipes needed the actual size of the cooler ends up being quite small. So this cooler is not going to take up a lot of space in your system and it will not block your memory modules.
On top of that, installation could not be easier. This cooler shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes to get installed and you won’t even need to remove your motherboard from your case.
When it comes to performance this is going to be a solid cooler. Impressively at idle this was the best performing cooler that we’ve tested in our new test group which is made up of much larger coolers. Now as we continued to put a higher load on the cooler it did not perform as good as the others, but the heavy load test did not fail and we did not see any thermal throttling. The fan is not loud by any means either.
The best part is going to be the price, right now you can pick this cooler up at our favorite online retailer for $29.99, which makes it one of the most affordable air coolers out there. Overall ThinkComputers gives the Cooler Master Hyper 212 3DHP Black ARGB CPU Cooler a 9 out of 10 score and our Recommended Award!
Pros:
– Small and compact
– Easy installation
– Good overall performance, especially at load
– Quiet operation
Cons:
– Probably not the best cooler for high sustain loads
