Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition CPU Air Cooler, SF120R RGB Fan, 4 CD 2.0 Heatpipes, Anodized Gun-Metal Black, Brushed Nickel Fins, RGB Lighting

I've built several computers, and swapped parts in and out of each of them, so I consider myself fairly competent at working with these sorts of things. But this was an exercise in frustration getting it installed. The instructions have no text, and rely on very vague pictures to show you what to do. This made figuring out exactly which part to use somewhat annoying, but not overly difficult.The biggest difficulties I had where both while attempting to actually mount the cooler. First, the AMD mounting brackets you attach to the cooler itself gave no indication to which position for the screws is for AM3 and which is for AM4. I had to take the cooler back up to figure it out, which was annoying as I'd already put the thermal paste on. Even then, it was another inordinately long time of fighting with it, only getting 3/4 screws to go in tightly before I ended up taking it up yet again. That was when I realized I had one of the brackets on backwards, because there's no real indication of which way they're supposed to go. I was honestly surprised it even went on wrong, as on the other side the holes only lined up if it went the right way.Once that was sorted out, though, it did go on smoothly. The quality of the build is excellent, and it works great, it's really just a matter of having horrible instructions for installation.Final result, though, was a massive drop in temps over the stock cooler I was using, and an even bigger drop in noise. The stock cooler was using a 40mm fan, which sounded like a jet engine when it had to do anything. From an aesthetics standpoint, it works really well with my new P350X case, and the included RGB controller is very welcome. Overall, I'm supremely happy with the look, sound, and performance of this unit! The directions just need to be slightly more idiot-proof, or they should at least provide an installation video for reference.

Running this on a MSI Bazooka mobo with an AMD 2400g. Was overclocking the APU (RAM, GPU, etc.) and getting very high temps at 70c+! Case has good airflow and room is also cool. Was using the stock Wraith cooler, a typical aluminum cooler with downward blowing fan. This cooler sits at 20c idle and never goes above 50c under load.On the Bazooka (micro atx) the RAM is not obstructed and fits nicely into the Thermaltake Core V21. The included RGB fan also works seamlessly with MSI's Mystic Light.Installation was fairly easy for the AMD4 platform, except that the mobo had to be removed (but hey, if you like computer building it's no problem!). Also, there is some mild lego-snap-and-plug required for the back mounting plate. There is NO text in the manual, just vague pictures. But really there is only one way the pieces fit together, so no biggie.Also comes with thermal paste, so bottom line this is a complete cooling package with great performance and reasonable price.

So prior to this purchase I bought a msi mag 240mm(garbage). Troubleshot this AIO for 2 months before finally rma'ing it at the time of posting this. Playing games was 80+, prime95 tests/cinebench 80-90c and specifically destiny two sometimes I'd see 93c, apex 75-85c. I installed the 212 black argb last night. The temps are absolutely amazing. Once I played for about an hour to get an accurate reading I didn't even hit 70c most of the time i was under 60c even at 100% cpu loadwith this thing on my 5600x at stock with a -25 curve. Bang for buck this product is amazing especially when it is on sale, it is a huge value and works amazing for a 65w chip. Only thing that sucked was the mount on the back of the motherboard. I had to take 8 or 9 screw out of my motherboard to get enough clearance for the bottom left screw on the backplate. It wasn't hard just an extra step. The fan is not addressable rgb(which I am just going to replace it). I just used the little switch it comes with for the time being. If you add another fan for a push/pull I'd imagine temps would drop a little lower even. If you're like me and research until your crazy on pc parts. Just buy this thing. Just make sure you're not on a like 12900k it won't cool super high wattage cpus but for mids like the 5600x. Absolutely amazing.1 weird thing I want to add just in case anyone else has this issue. First boot up even with the stock fan plugged into the cpu fan pwm. I got "cpu fan error!" The workaround for this is just to turn off the monitor on the cpu fan in bios. Super weird, I didn't care much since I am replacing that fan anyways, but just so you know! Even if you disable the monitoring of the fan, works fine

This is being used to cool an AMD Ryzen 5600X and attached to an Asus TUF Gaming Pro X570 motherboard.I bought this for a new build because I wanted something with RGB and would give a little more performance room than the stock cooler. Those was my first build and I did have some issues getting it installed. The instructions were helpful, online videos even moreso, but probably a combination of nerves and not having done it before, possibly too much thermal paste, meant it was a little hard to screw in. Switching out the mounting hardware on the motherboard was easy, the actual mounting of the cooler was not. At least for me it wasn't.As far as performance goes, I've been very happy with it. I'm using Asus AI Suite 3 to control my fans and have it set for generally low RPMs unless higher is needed. It's very, very quiet most of the time and my idle temperature is typically around 35C-38C. When gaming or doing other things, I've not seen it go over 62C and usually it's in the 40C-55C range. So as far as cooling power is concerned it's more than I need but nice to be able to keep temperatures on the lower end. The only complaint I have, and it's minor, is that due to the fan blades being clear, it looks different and stands out from all the other fans in my case. It's definitely more noticable on summer colors like yellow and green, but not so noticable on others, like red. It's not terrible, but sometimes it does bug me.