

So let’s fast forward to 2021 for a new Hyper 212 EVO review with new heatsink comparisons, temperature and noise testing, benchmarks and some installation instructions you absolutely need to know about. I reviewed the original Hyper 212 EVO back in September of 2011 and determined it was one of the better editions of the Hyper 212 to date.


As the name suggests this is a second generation cooler based on the EVO design revision. Scores are scaling perfectly with clock speed. In this review we will be looking at the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO V2. And maybe that’s why the A500 that we saw from Corsair, which was such a failure, ended up doing relatively good at those lower heat loads. Prime95 + small FFTs peak in the upper 80s. It is supposed to help transmit heat faster at lower heat loads, which is super important for the mid- to lower-end CPU’s this cooler is going to be installed on. The Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO might be the best CPU cooler from the last 10 years and its certainly the most popular. LinX causes cores to go in the low 90s, but throttling is far less aggressive compared to the 212 EVO.
