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Review: Coolermaster KHC-V81-U1 Hyper-6

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 12 July 2004, 00:00

Tags: Cooler Master

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Introduction

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The processor cooling market has never been bigger. Hundreds upon hundreds of coolers for all processor types at all performance levels, all of them as quiet or as loud as your ears can handle. You get stock coolers from the CPU manufacturers that do their job with little fuss or flair, you get coolers with acres of copper base and a myriad of helicoid aluminium pins. Then you get coolers like Cooler Master's Hyper-6.

An extension of their well researched heatpipe technology, the Hyper-6 is a 1 kilogram copper behemoth that seeks to cool your processor to hitherto unknown levels from an air-cooler, while simultaneously looking good and being quiet.

Before we test that premise and check out what it looks like, a little on how the heatpipes in the Hyper-6 work. A cute image on the Cooler Master website works best.

Heatpipe

Heat is transferred from the CPU to the heatplate and on to the heatpipe. Liquid inside the heatpipe constantly expands and contracts, carrying the heat to an exit site. The moved heat is then disipated from the exit site by whatever means.

In the Hyper-6 that means a large copper base, six heatpipes and a large array of copper fins, cooled by an 80mm fan. It's massive, time for a closer look.