14 DAY TRIAL // It's been six months since Cooler Master first introduced the Hyper 103 cooler for central processing units, but only now is the product finally going up for sale. At least the price is low.
Said price is of $30, which can mean anything from €21.80 to €30 in Europe, depending on whether or not exchange rates affect Cooler Master's pricing scheme any.
Given how things normally turn out, €30 is more likely. Still, one can hope, especially with other hardware so overpriced right now (memory and, especially, AMD Radeon R9 graphics cards).
Anyway, the Hyper 103 cooler is called a compact tower because it only measures 108 mm x 89.5 mm x 138.5 mm, or 4.25 x 3.52 x 5.45 inches.
That's including the 92 mm PWM-controlled fan, which has a rotary speed of 600 to 2,200 RPM (rotations per minute).
Which is to say, depending on how much the CPU is pushed, the heat will rise and, in turn, the speed of the fan will increase.
On that note, the heat from the CPU is pulled out via three direct-contact 8 mm heatpipes. Normally there would be a copper base, or a nickel-plated one or whatever, but direct-contact heatpipes work better every time.
And this is supposed to be a compact cooler, which means that it was better to do away with the extra space that the base plate would need, reduced though it would be.
All in all, the newcomer should be able to cope with decent TDPs (thermal design power levels), thanks to the top airflow of 43.1 CFM.
Finally, the Cooler Master Hyper 103 tower-type CPU cooler weighs 508 grams / 1.11 pounds and makes 17 to 30 dBA of noise. Both Intel LGA 115x CPU and AMD FM2 / AM3+ CPUs/APUs (central and accelerated processing units) are supported.
