Xtreme Gear HP-1216B Five Heatpipe Copper CPU Cooler Review

[Apoptosis]

Xtreme Gear HP-1216B Five Heatpipe Copper CPU Cooler Reviw

CyberPower has a sister company called XtremeGear and for nearly a year now they have been starting to get into some of the component business – keyboard, mouse, and coolers. Today we look at the Xtreme Cooler HP-1216 that offers comparable performance to some of the other big name coolers on the market. It has 5 direct touch heatpipes and the ability to do a push and pull fan set up, so it might be able to keep up against other brands!

Cyberpower is known for their custom built PC’s, but now their sister company Xtreme Gear is selling components as well as complete custom systems. Today we are taking a look at Xtreme Gear’s HP-1216B CPU cooler. It’s a 5 pipe Heatpipe Direct Touch cooler that will mount up to all of the Intel LGA sockets and the AMD 754/939/940 and the newer AM2 and AM3. The HP-1216B also sports a blue LED 120mm fan to give it a little flare and it can be yours for $29.

Article Title: Xtreme Gear HP-1216B Five Heatpipe Copper CPU Cooler Review
Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1285/1/
Pricing At Time of Print: $29.99

[jnanster]

Great review for a nice cooler at a great price.

[Major_A]

Curious here, what program are you using to put a load on the CPU? The reason I ask is I ran across LinX and ran it on my computer and have never seen the temps so high. With my little overclocked Core2Quad on a Swiftech H20-220 it was approaching 90 degrees Celsius. It also makes for a CPU intensive benchmark, see the attachment. This is all FYI, check it out if you want to see how high the temps will go.

LinX Stock Run

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EDIT
Any news on this American Technologies lawsuit against heatpipe heatsinks being sold?
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/04/ ... pu_coolers

[bubba]

I use Prime95 blended for 30 minutes, it stresses the CPU pretty good. Its how I have tested all the coolers in the chart.

Never tried LinX, seen it, never run it.

[Major_A]

That's what I figured you used. I think LinX stresses the CPU more than OCCT if that means anything to you.

[kenc51]

That's what I figured you used. I think LinX stresses the CPU more than OCCT if that means anything to you.

It does, it used either 32 or 64 bit "Linpack" binaries from Intel. (bunch of code in fortran used for math simulations)
I've never seen anything approach the temps it gives.

[spitter]

Some overclockers say, an hour of linx or occt linpack is worth about 48hours of prime95, stability wise.

[iseeman]

At 3.8ghz this cpu cooler was @ 81 degree and swift apogee was at 57

[bubba]

At 3.8ghz this cpu cooler was @ 81 degree and swift apogee was at 57

Yup, just shows how good water cooling is compared to air on high overclocks.