Its no wonder why it has made it into so many builds. Cooler Master has lead the market with this 120mm tower cooler that is always priced like a smaller 92mm cooler. When I’m going a build that is more down to earth, 9 times out of 10 I end up recommending the Hyper 212, and its been that way for years. Which I suspect a lot of you have heard of the Hyper 212. But I couldn’t end things up without checking out Cooler Masters's most recent introduction, the Hyper 212 Evo v2. I think they figured it out but didn't bother to tell anyone else about it.With a few different all in one coolers tested recently, I have been on a bit of a cooling kick. While googling this I noticed a different kind of clamp that uses the plastic stock heatsink retention clips. But don't tell us your shitty adapters will work when they don't.

I mean if I had to buy a new one just for AM4, I probably would have. Problem solved because I am a ghetto rigger. Maybe 1 layer would have been enough, but I like it tight. I did use some old motherboard standoff o-rings on the screw-nuts so not to scrape the board up.īingo, this did the trick.

Then I screwed the thing in as hard as I could. I cut out two layers of that with an exacto, and cut a hole where the backplate had one (under board ventilation?). Mine was pink, but who cares, it's going on the bottom. But I have plenty of the thin foam sheets they ship under the motherboards in the box. This could have been accomplished with some plastic washers, can't use metal on the back of the motherboard. So what I did was close the gap on the backplate under the motherboard. I remount it again thinking I maybe missed something, nope. Not now, wiggle room plenty and I can push it forward and it breaks contact with the cpu. Hell I have used the heatsink as a HANDLE to remove and carry motherboards, that shit is so locked down. there should be zero on a locked down Hyper 212 install. I tightened that shit as far as I could and I was not pleased. A huge amount of play in the lock nuts that screw into the stock backplate. So the new scissor bracket uses the stock AM4 backplate. I noticed the hole pattern in the Hyper 212 backplate won't fit the Asrock AM4 board, not even close. better part of a year goes by but now I'm ready for it. I did and they sent me a new scissor X bracket and some misc parts.

Cooler Master offered a free AM4 adapter, just pay (I think it was $5?) shipping. Best bang for the buck cooler you can get. I've had Hyper 212's in my last 4-5 systems. Sorry to necro a thread, but I just went through this today and what a PITA.

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