Reviews for Cooler Master Hyper 6 AMD & Intel Silent CPU Cooling Solution

Hyper6

Strengths: Very Good cooling, even at lower fan speeds

Weakness: Very Heavy

This is one of the best coolers on the market. It can be run with one, two, or even no fans. With a fast (but noisy) fan, it performs at the top of the class. The only downside is the weight. After installing it, I wouldnt plan on moving the computer around. The cooler might snap off and break something. Great Heatsink!

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Huge, but outdated

Strengths: Achieves significant reductions in idle/load CPU heat for P4E CPUs; can be mounted on 428 (P4), 754 (AMD), and 939 (AMD) sockets.

Weakness: Very heavy - beyond spec for most motherboards in vertial orientation. Fan is not quiet. Fixed direction pushes hot air into power supply intake on most systems.

Summary:
This is a very large heatsink that performs much better than the retail heatsinks that come with current CPUs. It is an older model that works on sockets 428, 754 and 939. However, it is so large and heavy (solid copper construction - about a pound of it) that it comes with a bracket that should be mounted on the back of the motherboard opposite the HS. It also comes with its own retention bracket for the component side.

This is obviously overkill for most users; you'd only want to go through this much trouble if you are either overclocking or are running full loads constantly and worry about heat on the CPU. This heatsink will do about as good as you can with simple air cooling.

Major caveats:
1 - The advertised "silence" is not very achievable. The fan rattles and gets quite loud at higher speeds. Even though it is a standard 80mm fan it uses non-standard mounting screws.
2 - There are airflow issues. The heatsink can only be mounted in one position, depending on how your motherboard is designed. On most, the heatsink will push air up toward the power supply intake instead of toward the rear-exhaust. There is no solution to this issue. Also, because the heatsink is so large, it may get in the way of other components in your case - including other chipset heatsink/fans. It is tall enough to be right up against the inside panel of most cases. The "CPU" air intake cutout found on many cases cannot be used for heatsinks using this cross-blowing design.

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Cooler Master Hyper 6

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