Customers express satisfaction with the Hyper 212 120mm CPU Cooling Fan's cooling capabilities, quiet operation, ease of use, overall performance, and reasonable price. The cooler is also compatible with many different chipsets. However, some customers have noted difficulties with the installation process, the cooler's size, and the clarity of the instructions.
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Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
cooler master
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Worked great!! I needed some extra cooling and this fan was perfect
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Cooling, Noise level, Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It's Worth it
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Excellent quality and silent like a ninja. Keeping all my temps where they need to be for my Intel i7 9700k. works like a charm
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Noise level
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Whisper Quiet - when settings are correct
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
So quiet, especially when set to quiet in BIOS. I built this into a new PC build, there was a hum from the box, thought it was this cooler.
Boy was I wrong, my PSU had a max mode... I changed it to Eco mode, and am now a far happier man.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Ease of use, Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Purchase
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Works like a charm, easy to install, and noticed a significant decrease of heat coming from my computer.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Cooling, Noise level
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good
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This cooler is silent and keeps my CPU 15-20 degrees cooler while gaming over my old stock cooler.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Cooling, Noise level
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This fan looks great in my PC rig and super quiet!
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I put this Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition in my PC rig, the black color looks very clean in my setup (as opposed to simple unpainted silver cooling fins). I attached this CPU cooling fan assembly to a MSI Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi on top of an Intel i7-10700 CPU. The fan is very quiet and the black color of the entire unit does not distract from the RGB colors operating within the the PC case. So far, the CPU cooler appears to be doing the job. If needed, I could attach fan to other side of the cooling fins as well, hardware to hold the second fan is included. I appreciated that in the bag of screws was a small tube of thermal paste, I was glad that I did not have to buy that separately. Overall quality feels very good.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Cooling, Ease of use, Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good quality at a good price.
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
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Nice quality and easy to install. Comes with thermal paste with good instructions. Was a replacement for a water cooler i got on a pre-built. Does a good job cooling.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Cooling
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Awesome Aircooling
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Posted . Owned for 5 months when reviewed.
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Go to for the standard of aftermarket cooling. Excellent product that gets the job done everytime with any chip.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Air Cooling for Ryzen 3900X
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Stay a while and listen....
So in early 2018 I bought a CyperPowerPC system from BestBuy.com picked up at my local Best Buy brick and mortar store for my son. That system was equipped with a Ryzen 5 1400. Fast Forward to 2021 and except for the case, motherboard and internal cabling, I have pretty much replaced every other component in this thing. Not that anything failed, just upgrades for better performance.
So in mid 2019, I swapped out the original Ryzen 5 1400 CPU for a Ryzen 5 2600. The first gen Ryzen 1000 CPU's did not ship with a stock cooler from AMD so my assumption is that the Cooler Master branded cooler in this system used by CyberPowerPC was the equivalent of what is the Wraith Spire that is included in the Ryzen 2000 and Ryzen 3000 series mid tier CPU's. Matter of fact, I upgraded from the Ryzen 5 1400 to the Ryzen 5 2600 and re used the included Cooler Master cooler. I even bought a tube of premium Thermaltake heat sink compound from the same brick and mortal Best Buy I picked up this machine from. Since Ryzen 5 2600 and Ryzen 5 1400 are both TDP 65W CPU's I figured the same cooling solution should work and it did.
Now again here in 2021, I upgraded my PC from a Ryzen 9 3900X to a Ryzen 9 5950X and I figured I would once again pass a CPU down to my son in the aforementioned PC. So the 3900X is a 105W TDP and I knew the existing Cooler Master cooler would not work. So after some research, it looks like the Hyper 212 BE is rated for 150W TDP CPU's.
So I replaced the Ryzen 5 2600 with the Ryzen 3900X in his PC. I then used the Hyper 212 BE as the new cooler.
So my son's CyberPowerPC from Best Buy had a rebranded Cooler Master Masterbox 5 and the motherboard they used was a MSI Bazooka B350M micro ATX board. Yep, let's put a 3900X on an entry level B350 board.
So assembling the Hyper 212 BE was not bad. The biggest gripe I had was getting the plastic clips they include for their new backplate to go onto their backplate. I watched several videos of how to assemble the Hyper 212 BE on Youtube so I felt good going into this upgrade. The packed in instructions are good and well marked from a documentation perspective but the commentary and videos on Youtube made me feel more confident.
Nevertheless, I struggled to get their clips onto their backplate.
Also, the clips that hold the included 120mm fan onto the tower heatsink are a bit touchy. This unit comes with the fan already mounted to the tower but you have to remove it to get clearance to attach the appropriate brackets for your CPU socket to the cooler and also have adequate leverage to get a screw driver to come straight down onto the scrws that secure the cooler tower to the backplate.
Mounting the backplate to the motherboard was not a problem and also attaching the tower to the backplate and screwing it down tightly was a decent experience. Unlike the stock AMD clip method that just sucks and I think requires too much pressure to mount a cooler, Once I applied my thermal compound and lined up the tower onto the backplate and started the criss cross pattern to screw this down, once it was all tightened up, it swas solid secure and mounted well.
Firing up the system post upgrade, everything works well. Temps are higher than I would like but they are within stock. Again, i am running a 3900X up from a 2600 on a B350 micro ATX board.
I did disable PBO in the bios and I do not have any overlclocks applied. Temps according to the MSI Command Center bounce between high 30's to mid 50s C while idling. If I use something like CPU-Z to stress the CPU, I do see that it can get up around 83C under a full 24 thread load.
My son basically plays games so a full stress test does not represent a realistic work load so take this with a grain of salt. Also, I am not a professional. The fact the PC still runs after its 3rd CPU is amazing.
My son probably sits on his PC too much as it is but he has not complained about anything. To him, the PC still pretty much feels like it did when it was on the 1400 CPU. Which is a good thing.
Time will tell if this will fry his VRMs. Looks like there are 4 of them on ths particular board. I did see videos on Youtube of folks trying 3900X in B350 boards as a proof of concept. I think Hot Hardware said that if you shut off PBO and don't overclock, that things do get warm but stay within spec. Of course they were using the included Wraith Prism that come withthe 3900X however, I do not have one of those as my machine came with an AIO closed loop 120mm cooler so that is why I grabbed the Hyper 212 BE.
Maybe the Prism would be better since it is a downward cooler. Again time will tell.
Anyway, this thing is really nice looking when mounted in his PC case. Sorry to not include a picture.
I would recommend this unit. Overall, it seems good quality. Hopefully, I did not do my son a dis service and bite off more than his motherboard can handle.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Cooling
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Heatsink
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Installing was very easy just follow instructions. Be warned however, if you have a MATX case or even an ATX that is not very wide, this may not fit. The first PC I was going to install on was too narrow and I ended up with an AIO liquid cooler. A little while later I was able to install on another PC I built for a "budget build" in a prior used NZXT 510. It did fit nicely in here without contact. I cannot in good nature blame Cooler Master it was something I should have checked myself first. On the build it does work fantastic and easily cools the 10th Gen Intel 5 CPU it is mounted to.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Noise level, Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good air cooler 10/10
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
It works well! It is a lot quieter then the old stock cooler
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Cooling
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great cooler and easy install!
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Took about 30min from power down to power up, so not too complicated. Comes with all the brackets and hardware to fit practically any board and CPU. Included thermal paste, which was nice. I installed this on my Ryzen 5 3600 which had been running at 170° idle and 201°+ under benchmark loads. With this new cooler, I'm seeing 135° idle and 171° under benchmark loads. So a dramatic improvement. Is louder than the stock AMD Stealth cooler, but that goes with the territory for it's cooling capacity. I'm now comfortably able to overclock to my heart's desire. :)
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Exactly what i wanted
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great budget cpu cooler, works exactly as intended.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Cooling, Noise level
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Must buy
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Why need an aio when you have this. This does a great job cooling and is very quiet
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Electronics
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Works great!! Came in to get a new CPU cooling fan. They showed me what i needed and took care of me
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Cooling
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Solid budget fan
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Solid cheap budget cpu cooler keeps my 7500f under temps
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Noise level
Cons mentioned:
Installation
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Quiet with great performance and value
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I have an i7 6700 and already had good airflow in my Fractal Meshify C case (cooler fits easily in this case), but I had a gift card so I thought I'd giver this thing a shot. It's much quieter, especially when the PC turns on, no obnoxious fan spin up noise. The fan clips are a little annoying to use and the instructions leave a little bit to be desired, but overall it's a great value. As of my review, the YouTube channel "Gear Seekers" has both AMD and Intel installation videos.
Temps from Intel's tuning utility during CPU stress test/gaming:
Stock Intel Cooler: 36C min, 73C max, 63C average under load
Hyper 212 Black: 27C min, 51C max, 43C average under load
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Cooling, Ease of use
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Gets the job done
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Isnt anything fancy, but it gets the job done. Not hard at all to install, nice good cooler
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
great cpu cooler for the price
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
my cousin needed a new cooler fast so i went to BestBuy and bought him this one. I really like this cooler its the second one i bought i have one for my pc and it works great.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Cooling, Noise level
Cons mentioned:
Size
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent CPU Cooler
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Works as expected. Keeps a 96 watt CPU cool at 4.8 GHz. Installation was easy. It is too tall for smaller towers. Very quiet and well balanced.