Pros:
- Supreme Cooling Capacity
- Excellent noise normalized performance
- Low noise levels
Cons:
- None!
About Cooler Master
Cooler Master is well known amongst PC enthusiasts for their cooling products. The Hyper 212 Evo is amongst the most well known budget air coolers to ever be released, and the company’s giant HAF cases are popular amongst those who prefer lots of space and airflow.
Today we’ll be looking at Cooler Master’s latest air cooler, the Hyper 622 Halo White. It features a twin tower heatsink and is paired with Cooler Master’s newest HALO series fans. Does the Hyper 622 Halo deliver the sort of cooling performance to earn my recommendation? Read on to find out!
Foreword
Over the past few months I have explored the impact of different levels of cooling with AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X CPU. When I tested EKWB’s AIO Elite 280, it surprised me by able to keeping the CPU under TJmax in intensive workloads – I had been under the impression that it was “impossible” to keep Ryzen 7000 CPUs under TJMax in intense workloads. On the opposite end, I tested BeQuiet’s Pure Rock LP SFF cooler – which was only able to cool 66W.
Introducing Cooler Master’s Hyper 622 Halo, a dual tower air cooler
Packaging and included contents
The Hyper 622 Halo arrives in a medium sized box. The inner packaging is quite unique, sporting a custom plastic body protecting the cooler which unfolds to unveil the product, with the accessories in plastic bags at the top.
Included with the package are
- Dual Tower Radiator
- 2x 120mm fans
- Mounting for modern Intel & AMD platforms
- PWM Fan Splitter
- ARGB splitter
- Tube of Cryofuse Thermal Paste
- Manual
AM4 & AM5 Cooler Installation
The installation of Cooler Master’s Hyper 622 Halo is extremely simple for AM4 & AM5 motherboards. To begin, you’ll need to remove the default retention socket and attach standoffs.
Afterwards, attach the mounting bars to the standoffs and secure them with the included screws.
After applying the thermal paste, remove the middle fan. Then place the heatsink on top of the mounting bars and secure them with a screwdriver.
Finally, re-attach the middle fan and connect the PWM & ARGB connections to your motherboard or fan hub.
Features of Cooler Master’s Hyper 622 Halo
Dual Tower Heatsink with recessed edges for maximum RAM compatibility
Cooler Master’s Hyper 622 Halo features a dual tower finstack for maximum cooling performance. The bottom portion of the finstack on Cooler Master’s Hyper 622 Halo is recessed in order to maintain maximum compatibility with RAM DIMMs.
Nickel Plated Copper base with 6x 6mm heatpipes
2x 120mm HALO fans
Cooler Master advertises the following with these fans:
- Silent Cooling Technology
- The new HALO series fans incorporate a mixture of noise reduction technology and sound absorbing material for a silent cooling solution.
- Hybrid Fan Blade Design
- Air Balance Fan Blade Combined with Wave Shape Blades, Inspired by Jet Engine and Helicopter Blade Gives Your System Static Air Pressure Without Compromising Airflow
- Dual Loop Addressable Gen 2 RGB Lighting
- Individually controlled Addressable Gen 2 RGB LED’s with dual loop design to ensure the most vibrant display of color.
Full tube of Cryofuse Thermal Paste
Most cooling manufacturers include the bare minimum amount of thermal paste, some only come with pre-applied thermal paste only good for a single installation. Cooler Master, however, includes a medium size tube of it’s premium CryoFuse thermal paste!
Test Platform Configuration
- At the default power limits
- With a 95W PPT enforced
- With a 75W PPT enforced.
Noise Normalized Results
Performance only scales by a limited amount with improved cooling capacity with Ryzen 7000. This also means that there is less of a benefit to running fans at higher performance levels. As such, it can be useful to see how coolers compared when noise normalized for quiet operation.
In this noise normalized scenario for silent performance, Cooler Master’s performance here is excellent! The Hyper 622 Halo provides the best performance of any air cooler I’ve tested thus far in this scenario, making it ideal for those who prefer quiet, silent cooling.
Default Power Limits
Cooler Master’s Hyper 622 Halo again delivers with chart topping performance in this scenario, providing the best results of any air cooler we’ve tested thus far. If that wasn’t impressive enough, the Hyper 622 Halo achieved this level of performance with a noise level of only 42.7 dBA.
This is an impressively quiet result, most coolers I’ve tested run louder in this scenario.
95W PPT
The results above show that most air coolers will perform similarly, but there will be a 6C+ delta between low end and higher end air coolers. Just like our two previous testing scenarios, the Hyper 622 delivers the best performance of any air cooler I’ve tested in this scenario. It achieves this impressive performance with only a minor amount of noise generated. At 39.6 dBA, this is our third quietest result.
75W PPT
Conclusion
I don’t say this lightly – this is the best air cooler I’ve ever tested with Ryzen 7700X, and might just be the best air cooler I’ve ever tested period. I’m giving Cooler Master the Gold Award for it’s strong cooling performance while maintaining whisper quiet noise levels! For more information about the Hyper 622 Halo, please visit the product page on Cooler Master’s website.