A departure from previous Cooler Master CPU air cooling lines, the TPC 812XS is the first heatsink to feature dual vapour chambers in addition to six heatpipes and a copper base.
Vertical Vapor Chambers feature less than half the air resistance by reducing airflow vortexes and noise generated by air streaming through a heatsink. At the same time vertical vapor chambers exhibit 3 times the fin contact area, enabling faster and more efficient transfer of heat from the vapor chambers to the fins, and overall more efficient use of the available fin surface area.
As a result, Vertical Vapor Chambers allow Cooler Master to develop cooling solutions with greatly reduced noise footprints or increased cooling performance in excess of 200W at the same or lower noise level as without vertical vapor chambers.
As a result, Vertical Vapor Chambers allow Cooler Master to develop cooling solutions with greatly reduced noise footprints or increased cooling performance in excess of 200W at the same or lower noise level as without vertical vapor chambers.
Included in the TPC 812XS package is one 120mm PWM fan rated from 500 to 1600 RPM, attached to the heatsink using a similar fan bracket to that of the Hyper 212 EVO. The fins appear to be shaped in such a way that a second bracket may be installed on the opposite side to allow push-pull fan configurations, further improving systems the cooling potential.
The cooler will be compatible with a full range of both AMD and Intel CPU sockets - including LGA2011, 1155, FM1 and AM3 - ensuring that it can be used for all upcoming Intel and AMD CPUs in the pipeline this year.
Those with side panel windows will be pleased to see that the the nickel plating on the heatpipes of these samples is especially good.
As tower coolers go the TPC812 is fairly tall, measuring 138 x 93 x 163mm and hence slightly taller and wider than the Hyper 212 EVO but not quite as large as the 612S. We're looking forward to seeing how the new VVC technology performs and whether this innovation is taken up by other manufacturers as heatpipes were early in the previous decade.
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