i suddenly miss push pins...
it just got fatter
at least its cooler now
upskirt view...
Overall-8/10
Assembly-6/10
Not that i buy this product hoping that it would be a breeze to install,but getting this 600gram beauty installed is harder than expected. Small pictorial diagram and limited english wouldnt make things more pleasant. Get it in and you probably would have to give up your side intake fan like me, unless you have a super spacious full atx casing.But as expected, the design have high pressure for optimal temperature transfer and giving 4 fan brackets for push-pull fan configuration is very sweet of them.
Value-9/10
At 59SGD, for a 3 heatpipe direct contact interface and 120mm fan, is almost a steal.
Performance-9/10
xx = idle/load(30mins linpack) All value in Celsius
2.66ghz -1.2v
stock = 41/76
212+ = 34/58
3.15ghz -1.2v
stock = 46/87
212+ = 37/67
3.6ghz -1.3v
stock = 50/fail
212+ = 41/78
4ghz -1.4v
stock = 59/fail
212+ = 42/94
Hyper 212+ sweetspot is pretty much around 3.6ghz at 1.3v.Moving on to 3.8ghz brings it to 85C, while at 4ghz its pulling down its white panties and wavering around in surrender.For those concern with noise,coolermaster default fan have anti vibration pads but is still very noisy above 1400rpm, grab a low noise 12cm fan like me if you are building a silent system. But as with all tower designs, the power regulator would become hotter due to lack of air flow in those areas.With reports of some P55 boards having their power regulators burn or melted, lets take a look at the temp from my temperature diode reading from the heatsink.
xx = stock/212+ All value in celsius and read during load condition similar as above
2.66ghz = 43/49
3.15ghz = 45/51
3.6ghz = 50/54
4ghz = 56/61
As mentioned, this is read from the heatsink itself, the actual temperature of the chip could be 20C above the taken data.Although 81C is within specification, but long term use is not reccommended.Interesting to note is that stock intel cooler designed to provide airflow to surrounding components have its advantages quickly negated at higher cpu speed due to extremely hot air exhaust from its puny little heatfins. Although Asus and gigabyte boards doesnt seems to be affected with blowing power phrases, but with other consideration like cpu temp and voltage offsets required to stabalise the chip, i deem 4ghz lynnfield incapable of running 24/7 on air cooling.
Coolermaster hyper 212+ is one of the best price/performance ratio tower heatsink available in the market with LGA1156 support.Compared to its more expensive competitors,it defended remarkably with less than 8C delta from those monstrously huge and obviously expensive solutions.If you are searching for a lynnfield aftermarket cooler,which you most probably will, this is highly reccommended.For those who wants push pins for easier installation, you may consider coolermaster TX3.
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