Cooler Master Hyper 212+

INTRODUCTION

When it comes to cooling our CPU's down, we all want a cooler that not only performs well, that cooler also has to be priced competitively. There are a ton of CPU coolers out there to choose from. While the good ones come in at a hefty price tag of 60 USD or more, the average person may not be able to fork out that much on a CPU cooler. Well there are other alternatives at a much lower price point. The downside with these types of coolers however is that they usually can't cut it for cooling an overclocked processor.

Cooler Master has a CPU cooler that sits in between these two types of CPU coolers. The question is, does it have what it takes to help keep cool even the most demanding CPU out on the market, or does it just fall short of a stock upgrade?

Lets look at the Cooler Master Hyper 212+ CPU cooler, this CPU cooler has been reworked to fit a more variety of CPU types from AMD's 754/939 to their latest AM3 socket CPU's as well as Intel's 775 socket CPU's to their latest 1366 CPU socket. This CPU cooler is also one of the first CPU coolers to fully support Intel's newest CPU socket, the 1156 Core i5.

Lets stroll on into the "Dragons Lair", and give this little CPU cooler a good work out.