Cooler Master unveils astronomically-sized Cosmos II chassis

Cooler Master has unveiled the latest iteration of its venerable Cosmos series, marking the first true successor to 2007's Cosmos 1000 chassis. The Cosmos II literally brings the series to new heights, measuring approximately five inches taller than its predecessor at 27.7in (H) x 26.1in (D) x 13.5in (W).
Despite being mostly made out of aluminum and plastic instead of steel like its progenitor, the Cosmos II weighs nearly seven pounds more at a commanding 48.5lbs. In fact, it's so big, Cooler Master has placed it in a new "Ultra Tower" form factor, whereas previous versions were deemed "Full Tower."
Although its size might discourage some of you, most hardware enthusiasts seem thrilled at the prospect of owning a Cosmos II. After all, you know what they say about big cases, right? You can fit lots of stuff inside. The new chassis can accommodate up to 13 3.5-inch drives and 10+1 expansion cards.
Feature-wise, you can expect nothing short of excellence based on reviews we've seen, including one written by TechSpot community member Red1776. Externally, you'll find two bars above and below the chassis. The top ones are for easier transportation while the bottom set improves airflow under the case.
The front panel has two sliding covers. One conceals an attractive array of buttons for power, reset, fan speeds and LEDs. The other cover glides down the front façade to reveal three 5.25-inch bays and two 3.5-inch dock-X hot-swappable SATA hard drive bays. Both HDD slots are secured by tubular locks.
Front connectivity includes four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, as well as an eSATA port and audio jacks. As usual, Cooler Master has made liberal use of mesh all around the enclosure, including the side panels, which are more like doors. They swing open on a hinge but are easily removable if desired.
Inside, you'll find a smorgasbord of chambers, bays and grommets. The bottom has a dual-120mm fan bracket in front of a tool-free cage with room for six 2.5 or 3.5-inch devices. This sits beside a bottom-mounted power supply bracket that supports extra-long units and has noise-dampening padding.
The remaining five hard drives can be seated in a sideways-mounted cage placed behind the front panel, below the hot-swappable bays. This can be removed if you need additional space for super long expansion cards (up to a whopping 15.15 inches) or if you simply want to improve the intake airflow.
The primary chamber supports virtually all motherboard sizes, including E-ATX and XL-ATX, while there's enough clearance for the beefiest of CPU heatsinks (up to 7.48 inches tall). As noted, there's plenty of room for PCI-E cards with 10 horizontal openings and one vertical slot for connectivity expansion.
The Cosmos II supports more fan combinations than we can coherently list, but just know that the case is no slouch when it comes to cooling -- be that air or liquid. You'll find tubing holes in various places around the chassis and there is native support for triple radiators in the top-most compartment.
The air-cooling configuration seems extremely efficient. According to Red1776's performance tests, Cooler Master's latest enclosure offers superior cooling to the company's HAF 932, keeping the processor, graphics, hard drive and chipset temperatures lower by between two and six degrees Celsius.
The Cosmos II is expected to crash through shelves this month with a price of roughly $350. Although that's about $150-$200 more than you'll pay for the HAF 932, HAF X or CM Storm Trooper, the price seems well justified. We'll find out for sure when we get our hands on a review unit in the near future.
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Review: Cooler Master Hyper 612S

Overview

Like a child stuffed full of fizzy drink and sweets by a malevolent anti-Jamie Oliver, Cooler Master is going hyper, at least with its latest Hyper 612S CPU air coolers.

As far as air coolers go, the Hyper 612S certainly ticks all of our must-have boxes, with six 6mm heatpipes running through a solid copper base and up the chunky 140mm tall aluminium-fanned heatsink array.

Cooler Master could be trying to cover its own back by describing the Hyper 612S as a silent cooling solution, but then why not?

It ships with a 1,300rpm 120mm fan that produces a mere 22dBA, but a supplied fan limiter reduces the revs to just 900rpm and a near-silent 16.1dBA.

For those seeking more cooling performance, the Hyper 612S does ship with a second fan bracket, so it can be used in a dual-fan push-pull configuration too, helping Cooler Master potentially cover all bases with a reasonably-priced CPU air cooler.

Benchmarks

To give the Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU cooler a run for its money, we fully installed it onto an overclocked Intel Core 2 E7200 processor.

We took an ambient air temperature reading, an unloaded temperature reading and another when the CPU had been running with a full load for a number of minutes.

Verdict

The Cooler Master Hyper 612S takes the tried, tested and safe – if seemingly massively wasteful – route of supplying different types of fixing arms for each type of possible installation. These are screwed to the copper CPU cooling base and the whole unit is bolted into place via four nuts and a supplied backplate.

The upside for this is that it does offer foolproof installation. The downside is that because it's bolted into place underneath the motherboard, removing the cooler is an issue.

Despite its larger size, it's good see that Cooler Master has carefully followed ATX specifications, and we didn't have any trouble installing the Hyper 612S into our case.

Having said that, with our motherboard it would be impossible to install a second 120mm fan with the supplied bracket, but that's not to say it'd be the case with every configuration.

Cooler Master is targeting this at the silent end of the market, hence throwing in the fan limiter. Frankly, even without this it's a quiet unit, with it being easily drowned out by other components.

Cooler Master also plays on an optimised fin design that's supposed to enhance cooling at low fan speeds.

Always sceptical, we were surprised to see little cooling variation between the full-speed and low-speed modes, proving that there must be some meaning in Cooler Master's madness. The main difference noted is that we couldn't maintain a stable overclock at 3.31GHz in the 900rpm mode, but it did make it halfway through our testing.

Up and running, the Cooler Master Hyper 612S provides a reasonable 11c improvement over the stock air cooler. That sort of performance matches the Xigmatek Gaia SD1283 but is still beaten by the Prolimatech Armageddon.

We liked

There's a lot to enjoy with the Cooler Master Hyper 612S. It's a big cooler that, rather than going down the out-and-out performance route, pulls off onto the silent performance byroads of the CPU air cooling world and succeeds by doing so.

It doesn't provide the best cooling deltas we've seen, but then if that's what you want you're looking at the wrong cooler.

We disliked

Once this bad boy is installed, it's installed. You'll need to remove the motherboard to get it out, and that's always a pain.

The price is also a quandary as there are plenty of cheaper, smaller and nearly as efficient CPU coolers on the market that you could drop in as its replacement.

Final verdict

If you want an efficient CPU air cooler that's ear-friendly then Cooler Master should be removing money from your bank account for the Hyper 612S as you read this.

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Review: Cooler Master Silencio 550

As its name suggests, Cooler Master's Silencio 550 is all about minimising noise.
The inner panel walls are foam padded. The front panel gets some sound-proofing treatment too. And the dust filter for the two 120mm front fans mutes internal whirring further still.
As a concession towards the 'near silent operation' promised, these two front fans are the only ones in the case. PSU, CPU and GPU fans in any system will augment that headcount, but the omission of any top case fans is notable.
Building a system inside the Silencio 550 is easy enough. It's not the biggest case, measuring 210 x 415 x 505mm, but there's plenty of room for large graphics cards and motherboards.
The removable storage bay's handy, and the side mounts for hard drives are a nice alternative to the flimsy cages found in most cases.
We like its understated visual design too. The big problem is that it's hard to feed cables through to the backplate, with just two small holes cut into the chassis. When this domino's knocked over, fixing the rear panel back on becomes a problem too. There is a revision on its way that's meant to fix this issue though.
It's not as quiet as we were expecting either, and temps suffer as a result of minimal internal fans. Cooler Master's own CM 690 offers much better cooling and isn't much louder.
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