Cooler Master Hyper 103 CPU Cooler Review
Peter Donnell / 11 years ago
A Closer Look
The front of the cooler features a 92mm blue LED equipped fan with a 4-pin PWM connection. The fan can be swapped out or easily removed from the cooler thanks to its push-click mounts on the left and right sides.
The tower is quite small but packs plenty of fins into a small space and a triple heat pipe design.
The style of the fins looks presentable enough and it has a good quality finish to the top that would suit most system builds.
The heat pipes are flattened with a solid pre-installed mounting block over the top of them. They’ve not very shiny, quite dull actually and the edges between the pipes and the block have tiny gaps. Nothing major, but it could gunk up with excess thermalpaste over time.
With the fan removed you can see the custom shape of the cooler allows a small space between the back of the fan on the fins, this should allow air to move more freely and not wash back into the fan blades.
The fan feels of a decent quality and is held into the mount by four standard fan screws. There are four small rubber pads on the back to stop it scratching against the coolers tower, but this should also help reduce any unwanted vibration.
