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Battle of the Titans: Super Coolers from Scythe, Thermaltake and Zalman Face to Face (page 10)

Category: Coolers

by Doors4ever

[ 10/21/2005 | 11:44 AM ]

The hardest step in installation of the Shogun on LGA775 is assembling the fastening frame.

It looks easy on the picture, but I’ll tell you how it is in reality. You put the mainboard on its edge and hold it in this position with your elbows, for example. Then you press the first bracket on the face side of the PCB, trying not to lose the spacers from under it. With your other hand you press the back-plate to the reverse side of the PCB. And then you use your third hand to turn in the screws. Then, this operation is repeated for the second bracket. I don’t know even now how I managed to cope with the procedure.

The rest of the installation is much easier. You insert steel bars with folded ends into the openings in the brackets. The bars have screw holes in their center. The screws are tightened and press the cooler down to the CPU.

The result is shown on the snapshot.

I want to note that the fan must be hitched to the heatsink only after the heatsink is seated on the CPU. You can download instructions for installing the cooler on all CPU sockets here (5.1MB, PDF file).