Cooler Master Hyper 622 Halo Black CPU Cooler Review

A Closer Look

First impressions are good, and this is undoubtedly a good-looking product. PC gamers, for the most part, are quite heavily sold on aesthetics not just performance, so I can appreciate that Cooler Master has some very nice-looking new fans on here. They’re the new redesigned Halo² Fans, which feature a dual loop LED design and black braided cables.

The cooler features a dual tower design, offset in one direction so that it doesn’t conflict with major motherboard components and RAM, so you can simply orientate it to avoid larger hardware. There’s a good fin stack on each tower too, giving it plenty of surface area.

The backs of towers have a stepped look, which helps churn up the air and even slow it down a little, helping further draw more heat away from the cooler, but of course, the twin fans will soon get that air moving again. There are six heat pipes too, which run in a U-shape through the CPU block but fan out to fill each tower.

Rather than just the tips of the heat pipes, the tops of each tower are treated to a lovely aluminium top cover, which looks super clean and tidy.

Overall, this looks to be a very robust cooler. So let’s get the Intel brackets screwed on and get this thing benchmarked!