Introduction

Recently, Evercool sent us their latest ultra low profile product, the HPL-815 Low Profile cooler. After taking the HPL-815 out of its box I felt like a giant. It is possible to hold the fan and heatsink in the palm of your hand while your fingers and thumb touch opposite sides of the contact area. Evercool claims this feisty cooler can tame the most brutal processors on the market. Today we will put the Evercool HPL-815 to the test.

Here is an overview of the impressively diminutive cooler’s specifications, provided by Evercool:

<INTEL SERIES>

For Intel LGA 1366
• Core™ i7 i7-920~i7-960

• Core™ i7 Extreme Edition i7-965~i7-980X
For Intel LGA 1156
• Core™ i7 i7-860~i7-870
• Core™ i5 i5-680~i5-750/i5-750S/i5-655K
• Core™ i3 i3-530~i3-550

For Intel LGA 775

• Core2 Duo up to~E8600
• Core2 Extreme up to~QX9770/X6800
• Core2 Quad up to~Q9650
• Pentium D up to~960
• Pentium Dual Core up to~E6500/E6500K
• Pentium Extreme up to~965

• Pentium 4 up to~672
• Pentium 4 Extreme up to~3.73G Hz
• Celeron up to~365/E3300

<AMD SERIES>

For AMD K8/AM2/AM2+/AM3
• AMD Phenom™ II X6 Black Edition 1090T

• AMD Phenom™ II X6 1055T
• AMD Phenom™ II X4 805~965/B93~B95/900e~905e
• AMD Phenom™ II X3 710~720/700e~705e/B73~B75
• AMD Phenom™ II X2 545~555/B53~B55
• AMD Athlon™ II X4 620~635/600e~605e
• AMD Athlon™ II X3 425~440/400e~405e

• AMD Athlon™ II X2 215~255/235e~240e/B22~B24/250u~260u
• AMD Phenom™ X4 9500~9950/9100e~9450e
• AMD Phenom™ X3 8450~8750/8250e~8450e
• AMD Athlon™ X2 up to 6400+/7850/BE-2400/5050e
• AMD Athlon™ 64 up to 4000+/LE-1640
• AMD Athlon™ 64 FX up to FX-62

• AMD Sempron™ up to 3800+/140/LE-1300
• Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ up to 1389/1224SE/1218HE

Overall
Dimension : 106 x 95 x 45 mm

Heat Sink Material
: 4 Heatpipes + Al Fin + H.D.T. Core

Bearing
Type : EL long life bearing

(Life Expectancy at 25°C 50000HR)

Rated Speed : 1000±25%~4000±10% RPM (PWM)

Noise Level
: 12~40 dBA

Rated Voltage : 12 V.DC

Weight : 320 g