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#733 - Cooler Master Hyper TX HSF |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Sunday, 24 September 2006 |
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A Closer Look:
Looking at the Cooler Master Hyper TX cooler, you can see that it follows the new trend of aluminum fins hovering above a copper base, connected by heatpipes. Some things that you may see different than others out there, is that the fan looks like it is squeezing every bit of surface area possible while maintaining a 90mm mount. Another item for observation is the plastic shroud covering the heat sink. It has a very unique shape, reminding me of a sun visor. You will also notice that the standard lever style retention arm is pre installed.
   
Taking a look at the bottom of the cooler, you can see that the Hyper TX has an all copper base with a grey thermal interface all ready applied for you. One note is that with most coolers that have a pre applied thermal interface, they usually ship them with some kind of plastic cover that can be discarded during installation. This is not the case here, so be careful to not get it on your clothing as I did! On top of the copper base, you can see that there is an aluminum block, mounted with screws from the bottom. This block secures the three copper heatpipes to the base as well as servers as a guide for the retention arm.
 
With the plastic shroud and fan taken off of the cooler, you can see forty one (yes I counted twice) aluminum fins attached to the three copper heatpipes. From the pictures you can see a few bent fins around the corners. The cooler came from the factory this way and I am sure that it is not the case on all the coolers. The fins have a smooth and shinny surface to them. Looking from the top, you can see that they have a slight bowtie shape to them.
  
Since the plastic shroud is off, let’s take a look. You can see the sun visor like hood on the back of the shroud. This only goes up about 45% of the shroud. This allows some air to pass over and out towards an exhaust fan and the rest of the air flow to point towards the motherboard components. On our test system, the hood hovered directly above the power MOSFETs and is a great design! With the fan taken off, you can see the rubber pins used to hold the fan in place. This is a very nice way to eliminate a large portion of fan vibration. Note that if you take the fan off of these pins… you will have to be quite creative to get the fan back on. I ended up using string to pull them through the fans mounting holes!
   
Taking a look at the included fan, you can see that it has a number of great features. The first thing that sticks out is the bloated design. Cooler Master has extended the fan blades to the max provided surface area. This is how they claim their “100mm fan air flow”. The fan has nine pretty and shinny fan blades. Looking to the side walls, you can see that there are four air vents. These allow the skewed fan blades to draw a bit more air.
  
From the side shot of the fan, you can see that Cooler Master has also included a small dome to the top of the fan hub. This allows air from the center of the air flow to easily move to the sides where the fan blades are. This helps reduce noise from the fan. The second picture shows us that Cooler Master fan is model #A9025-18RB-4BP-F1.
 
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