| #733 - Cooler Master Hyper TX HSF |
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| Written by Zach Jeffers | |||||||||
| Saturday, 23 September 2006 | |||||||||
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Installation: Installing the Cooler Master Hyper TX was fairly straight forward. Place the cooler on the CPU attaching the lever-less side to the stock retention bracket on the motherboard. With the lever on the other side, swing the lever from the open position to the closed position. This will seem like too much pressure, but once you get it down, it will be right as rain. One note, during this maneuver, is that the lever arm rubs along the side of the plastic shroud. This was fine at first, but then I noticed that the copper base was not centered on the CPU! As a matter of fact, it is very difficult to get the Hyper TX to mount perfect the first time; especially if you have larger hands like I do. To fix this, you have to shimmy the cooler center on the CPU. This would be practical suicide for CPUs with their Integrated Heat Spreaders removed. I am sure that mounting the cooler centered would be possible, but you would have to have smaller and more agile hands to do it.    Once mounted, the cooler clears all components. With the expanded fan design that Cooler Master has implemented, I could see this helping bring cool air over memory modules as it brings the fins lower to the modules. As you can see in the second picture, the shroud covers much of the components located by the I/O shield, including the power MOSFETs.   Below are some pictures of the Hyper TX mounted on a mATX board. The Hyper TX cooler looks bigger than the recently reviewed Cooler Master Mars cooler, but it really is not. The Hyper TX is, however, taller than the Mars cooler and I was forced to remove the plastic air tube from the Ultra Aluminus side panel window.    |
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