Coolermaster Hyper TXProvided by:
Coolermaster Coolermaster’s company name was not chosen by accident, they are the providers for many system cooling products, going from CPU heatsink, chipsets to VGA cooling (seen the latest NVIDIA whisper quiet 8800GTX reference cooler?). Today we have compact tower heatsink in for test, it comes with a 92mm fan and plug and play installation.
Platform compatibility: Intel Socket 775, AMD S939/AM2
Fan Support: 92mm (included 650 ~ 1800 RPM with PWM)
Dimensions: 90 x 44 x 136.5 mm
Weight (with fan): 425gr
Package contents are minimal as you don’t need much to get going with the Hyper TX. The design of the Hyper TX is a welcome change from the “huge” contraptions we tested earlier, a series of heat pipes are joined in a copper base and go up in U from, the aluminum fans are spread out evenly and cooled by a 92mm fan which is mounted using anti-vibration rubbers! The 92mm bracket also has custom design to allow more air to be pulled in from the surround area further improving the performance/noise ratio.
At the rear of the heatsink the plastic transparent shroud continues to form a “spoiler” like piece which helps guide air over the motherboard area directly below; on most motherboards this will be the PWM area, which will get some fresh air by this small, yet useful design decision.
The base comes pre-applied with quality thermal compound, there’s no extra thermal compound tube included, so you better get the installation right from the first try.
The base shows very small signs of machine lapping, it’s almost perfect, we’ve come quite a long way.
Installation
Plug and Play really works this time around, the Hyper TX uses the same push pins as the standard Intel Cooler, it can be orientated freely to fit the socket orientation; the whole process takes less than 30 seconds! The fan connector has 4-pin and makes good use of the PWM function if your motherboard supports it.
The small “spoiler” guides the air over the PWM area:
Ready for testing ->