Cooler Master Hyper 612 Version 2 CPU Cooler Review

Overclocking with the Hyper 612 V2

Many of the previous tests we chose not to overclock beyond the turbo frequency in order to show you what your average user would see, but we did find the limits of this particular processor without going too extreme on the voltage and will start to include those results. The Intel Core i7-4770K will be overclocked to a 4.3GHz turbo boost at 1.270 volts, which is over the stock 1.193v. To push this particular Intel Core i7-4770K stably to 4.4GHz required well over 1.4 volts, which the performance gains of a 100MHz increase was not worth the risk from that huge bump in voltage. Also understand that every processor reacts differently to voltage adjustments, so some may run slightly cooler or hotter at this same overclock frequency.

I did not start overclocking the Intel Core i7-4770K processor until after my Cooler Master Glacer 240L review, so not all coolers were tested under the increased stress of an overclock.

Again, ambient temperature at the time of testing is 74 degrees Fahrenheit. To record temperatures, we used Core Temp, logged the temperatures for 15 minutes or while each program was active, and averaged all 4 cores.

Now you might be asking where the Prime95 test is. I have opted to keep those results out as my CPU was approaching an average of 90*C in just a few moments of testing. This was not worth risking failure of my CPU to obtain a synthetic benchmark’s results. x264 will be a much better and realistic example of taxing a CPU heavily.

X264

3D Mark 2013

Metro Last Light

Sleeping Dogs

Overall Results: The Hyper 612 V2 definitely showed you that it was an air cooler, not being able to keep up with the liquid coolers anywhere near as well. Prime95 was thrown out of the testing this time around due to extreme temperatures achieved after just seconds. Fortunately due to the less demand on the CPU, it does fair decently on the gaming benchmarks in that you could possibly justify overclocking for gaming.