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Published: Jun 30, 2009 Author: Ville Ilonen Editor: Amber Lupala Provider: Coolermaster Share this article:

Closer look & testing

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The fan is attached to the cooler by using metal bands and the method is similar to the one used for a long time in Noctuas coolers. It's easy to use and it is completely screwless.

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Cooler itself is made from 42 aluminium plates attached to 3 heatpipes. This should give enough cooling power to cool down every cpu available in the market currently. The surface of the product looks smooth, tho you can feel the processing with your fingernails.

Testing:

Test setup:
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500
2x2GB DDR800
MSI P43 motherboard
Seagate 500Gb Hard disk
Ati Radeon 3870 512Mb
Nexus Clodius case

Following temperatures are measured inside the case with MSI P43 motherboards internal temperature meter. Idle temperatures are taken in bios after 20min idle time and stress results are taken after 30mins of superpi. In stock speed mode the CPU was at vcore of 1.352V and in overclocked mode at 3GHz the vcore was 1.480V.

We can see that the Hyper TX3 performs quite well but Noctua cooler outperforms it with quite a bit of a margin. However considering the size of the Hyper TX3 versus Noctua, the result does not suprise me. Also to keep in mind in competition against the Intel stock cooler is, that Hyper TX3 is more silent than the stock one.

Conclusion:

Priced around 27€, the hyper tx3 provides nice performance with decent sound levels. While not being the silentest cooler available, it is definately more silent than the Intel stock cooler and has half the price of Noctuas. Temperature levels with our test setup are also better than with Intel stock cooler. I could recommend Hyper TX3 for everyone who is buying a new cooler in sub 30€ pricerange.

Pros:
+ Great value
+ Nice performance
+ Silent
+ Option for another fan

Cons:
- No manual fan control