Cooler Master Hyper 622 Halo Dual Tower Cooler Review

When choosing a cooler for your custom PC build there are two things to keep in mind.  Physical size of the cooler AND thermal capacity.  Something that we will simply have to deal with is that modern CPUs will almost always “throttle” under aircooling which makes it doubly important to ensure that your chassis is well vented and that your cooler is properly sized to your CPU.

In this review we looked at the Cooler Master Hyper 622 Halo Black.  This is a dual tower cooler using 120mm Halo2 ARGB cooling fans.  Using dual cooling towers backed by dual fans helps to increase cooling efficiency by moving more air across more surface area.  Having the fan in the middle will increase the localized ambient temperature but, overall is still quite efficient.  You will find two large cut-outs in the radiator tower for memory clearance, provided that your motherboard is following a traditional layout.  Our EVGA Z790 Dark features a rotated CPU layout that places the memory modules at the top of the board and completely bypassing the memory cut-outs.

Of course, You can rotate the cooler to exhaust “upwards” in this situation and then completely block visual access to the excellent Cooler Master Halo2 ARGB cooling fans.

For more information on the Halo2 ARGB fans be sure to check out our review or consult the product page on the Cooler Master website.

During our testing it was determined that this cooler had a capacity to handle around 180w of processor power.  This value was determined in two stages.  The first was monitoring the Normal and AVX stages of Prime95 and recording the final boost frequencies.  After that a quick calculation determined the final load value.  This is different from our normal Celsius Per Watt metric that would factor in Ambient temperature, CPU voltage and Load temperature.  Unfortunately, that type of testing is unsuited for modern Intel processors.

Despite this the cooler does preform extremely well and the new Halo2 fans seem to be well suited to this type of cooler, if not slightly underpowered.  I would have liked to see a more powerful fan used on the Hyper 622 as that would easily enable more cooling performance at the expense of some excess noise.  As the product was testing the Hyper 622 was extremely quiet at idle and ramped up to match the RTX 4070 in noise output under load.

Overall, I found the Hyper 622 to be an extremely nice cooler with plenty of thermal capacity. The edge decorations found on the new Halo2 fans along with the beauty panels attached to the top of the cooler help to give the Hyper 622 a refined look while still retaining the overall look and feel of a classic air cooler. 

As mentioned, the ideal processor choice is one with a TDP below 180w.  This would exclude any K edition processors and really anything with more than 6-8 cores.  Of course, there is nothing stopping you from running a more power processor, just expect the system to thermally throttle under most gaming loads causing you to lose performance.

Dual Tower Design
Excellent Paring with Halo2 ARGB Fans
Beauty Panels
Supports Tall Memory Modules

Fans could be more powerful
Limited usage on EVGA Dark motherboard
Not intended for high powered CPUs