 So today I'm going to be having a look at the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus. This is a very popular value heat sink because it provides nearly the performance of much more expensive heat sinks. It has a wide range of compatibility including Core i7, Core i5, Core i3, and AM3. So it fits on basically anything and it also features some traditionally more expensive high-end features like heat pipe direct touch as well as a 120mm fan. And in addition to that it also works with a dual fan and push-pull. So you can really load this thing up like you can't really do with a lot of lower end heat sinks in this sort of a price range. So it didn't look like there was a seal on here but it turns out that there is. And I'm going to have to get like a key or something to break the seal. You know I really should have a knife on hand ahead of time for doing these but you know what? I'm just going to peel the sticker off. That would work better. Yes! There we go. That worked out really well for me. Okay so let's see what we're going to find inside of the box. First we will find a plastic clamshell style of packaging. Okay and then let's see what we got in here in terms of accessories. So there we go. Alright so first thing we find a multi-backplate. So this backplate is compatible with AM3 as well as LG8 775, 1156 and 1366. It has all the necessary holes and you can see from the way that they lift it up that is how they get compatibility with both Intel and AMD because with Intel this will sit flush with the back or it will have to lift up over the 1366 backplate. But with AMD it actually has a significantly larger backplate that it has to... Oh no wait no I guess with AMD they're not even... Oh this is kind of... Okay now I'm a little bit confused. I'm not going to pretend to know how this mounts because it looks like there's some kind of a sticker backing on the back here. Okay forget it. Alright moving forward we have more accessories including an instruction manual which is tucked into the back of the little clamshell. So I'll go ahead and pull out the instruction manual first. Maybe on camera I can figure out exactly how that backplate works. Wow this is huge. Okay first of all there's your warranty information slip. Okay so that's going to tell you all about the warranty in a bunch of different languages. Wow that's a lot of different languages. It's like nine on each side. It even has Serbian and Turkish. Awesome I love it. You can tell a company is properly international when. You know I mean here same thing. Here's our instruction guide. Wow that is like everything. Check this out. Do do do do do do. And then all along the other side all these different languages. Okay so the English one says how do we do this? Oh I was right the first time. It looks like for LGA 1156 the backplate actually lifts up off the back. Okay whereas for AMD we're actually using the backplate looking thing on. Yeah we flip it around the other way. Okay I get it. So for AMD you put it on this way. For Intel you put it on this way. Yes there we go. We figured it out. Awesome. Okay so inside here we're going to find all of the other mounting hardware that we need. Including the hold down for the front. So you can I mean this is very obvious. You can see this is for AMD. That's for Intel. And then these can be moved back and forth. I'm not sure if they slide or if you have to actually take them out. I can't tell. But these will actually move in and out depending which Intel you are using. 775, 1156 or 1366. Very ingenious hold down. This looks like some kind of fan mount. Yep. Alright. And then in here we'll find yeah the rest of the hardware. I'm not going to go and pull out all these screws. I don't want to lose them. But that's all the other stuff you'll need. As well as some Cooler Master thermal paste. Nice of them to include that for you. Alright. Okay so let's have a look at the heat pipe cooler itself. So the fan is pre-attached. Oh yeah I get it. Okay. So these additional clips here are they even include the clips for you. So you can put these on either side. And then you can attach your second fan right out of the box. If you have another fan and you have four mounting screws for it. That's terrific. Okay so as I mentioned before. This is a heat pipe direct touch cooler. So that means the heat pipes are all flattened along the bottom. So they actually do make direct contact with your CPU. I wouldn't be doing this right if I didn't do the obligatory shininess shot. So you can see that they are quite shiny. And the surface does appear to be quite flat. But really eyeballing it is not very useful. It comes down to performance data. And the Hyper is a very good performer for the money. So oh yeah I should mention this. They have four heat pipes and they do go up both sides of the cooler. Okay and you can see that they come out the top here. It's 120 millimeters big and the fan is actually kind of unique looking. This is a fan blade shape that I haven't really seen before. You see how it's kind of like a wavy shape rather than a more straight swept blade. So that's kind of nice too. I've heard that this cooler is actually quite silent. But I don't actually have somewhere to hook it up right now. I think that pretty much concludes everything I wanted to demonstrate. About the Hyper 212 Plus. So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look. And I'm just going to sort of give you some more angles here to check it out. There's your Cooler Master logo on the top. Thank you for checking out my unboxing.