Cooler Master Hyper 622 Halo Dual Tower Cooler Review

The Cooler Master Hyper 622 Halo is designed for Intel Socket LGA1700 / 1200 / 1156 / 1155 / 1150 and all modern AMD processors including AM5 and AM4. Here is an overview of the system and testing methodology

EVGA Z790 Dark Kingpin – Z790 Chipset
Intel Core i9 13900k (3.0Ghz) Twenty Four Core 8+16 48KB L2 Cache 12+12 x 2MB L3 Cache 36MB 

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Cooler Master Hyper 622 Halo Black

When testing heatsinks I have always looked at them from a real world perspective such that the reader (you) could easily replicate my results given similar testing parameters.  Then to push things a little future I would not only disclose load temperatures but also look at a Celsius Per Watt metric that factored in the ambient temperature.  This testing method worked extremely well until Intel introduced “boost” to their processors.

Intel Boost will ramp up the core speed until one of two things happens. 

• The CPU reaches the configured maximum speed, basically if we have a 5Ghz processor it will ramp the load frequency until we reach 5Ghz.
• The CPU reaches tMax, or the thermal maximum configured for the processor. This temperature varies and for Raptor Lake processors this is 100c.

Once a processor starts to throttle then the multiplier is progressively reduced until the CPU temperature is below tMax.  This formula works for overclocking as well.  Basically, we can set the CPU to target 6Ghz and provided we have enough voltage and enough cooling then the CPU should run that frequency.

Temperature: 100c
Ambient Temperature: 25c
Maximum Frequency: 5.3Ghz
Estimated TDP of this cooler: 180w

Calculating the TDP wattage of a CPU cooler only takes a little bit of math.  However, with the complexity of the Intel Turbo system does mess with the starting point of the calculations.  According to Intel the processor documentation the TDP for the Core i9 13900k is 125w.  This is due to the higher clockspeed of the K edition CPUs..

What I found is that, while I cannot test this cooler using my normal methods, I did find that this cooler should allow full frequency response processors with a “Maximum TDP” of 180w or less.  Using CPUs hotter than this will cause the CPU to throttle, fan speeds to increase, and performance to decrease.