Hyper 212 EVO Question

[silasjdemone]

So my old cpu cooler broke and i need a new fan, i know the hyper 212 is good but, ive never had a fan that mounts on its side and not just straight up/down. how good are they? and can you mount it straight down so the air goes away from cpu, or only on its side?

[themctipers]

Good i guess, you can't because on the top there is a physical barrier. The sides have fins, and the top is just one small metal sheet. 

[minibois]

The way that cooler (and many other 'tower coolers') work is they some gasses flowing through the heatpipes, which takes much of the heat away from the CPU (the flat part of the cooler) and the fan on the tower tries to blow away all the heat that is than in the gasses in the 'top' of the cooler (if we see the baseplate as bottom). This in turn is usually a lot better than just a heatsink with a fan on top of it, since the surface area the fan can affect is much higher.

 

As for tower coolers, the Hyper 212 is a decent option. Of course it doesn't rival the option from Be Quiet and Noctua that are double the price, bu that would be a fair comparison either way.

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

6 minutes ago, silasjdemone said:

So my old cpu cooler broke and i need a new fan, i know the hyper 212 is good but, ive never had a fan that mounts on its side and not just straight up/down. how good are they? and can you mount it straight down so the air goes away from cpu, or only on its side?

Basically if you mount it correctly, it should aim the air directly to the rear exhaust. I haven't looked at the 212 EVO in detail (although I do have one in storage), but I would assume it only mounts one way. 

[LogicalDrm]

212 Evo standard as what comes to tower coolers. Heatpipes take heat from CPU to fins which fan then cools. So it isn't at any point blowing air towards CPU or GPU. You can mount it either to blow towards rear or towards to. Orient it to blow towards your exhaust fans.