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Two Solutions from SilverStone: Tundra TD01 Liquid-Cooling System vs. Nitrogon NT06-Lite CPU Air-Cooler (page 8)

Category: Coolers

by Sergey Lepilov

[ 03/05/2008 | 02:47 PM ]

Installation Tips

By the way, you can see the LGA775 retention brackets already screwed on to the cooler base on the photo above. If you need to install the cooler onto an AMD K8 mainboard, you need to attach different retention plates also included with the cooler accessories.

To install the cooler on the mainboard PCB, you need to insert the spindled through the mainboard retention holes and the backplate and fasten them with threaded bushes and ring-pads:

The first revision of a well-known Thermaltake Big Typhoon cooler has very similar installation procedure. It is not the most convenient way to install a cooler and takes quite a bit of time.

If the Crazy Cool system has been removed from Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 mainboard, nothing will prevent you from putting the cooler backplate in place:

Once the spindles are in, set the cooler with the attached retention plates on top of them, press it against the processor heat-spreader and tighten up. In our case the cooler could only be installed facing one of the two ways: with heatpipes facing the bottom or the left-hand side of the system, like on the photo below:

We couldn’t place it with heatpipes facing upwards, because of the not very convenient socket positioning on the Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 mainboard: it was too close to the PCB edge. So, when we tried installing the cooler with its heatpipes facing up, it would hit against the power supply unit and wouldn’t let us set the mainboard into the right place. We couldn’t also have the cooler installed with heatpipes to the right, because of the tall memory module heatsinks. Of course, we are talking about one particular case in a specific system, but I assume you may also encounter similar problems when trying to install SilverStone Nitrogon NT06-Lite, so keep our experience in mind.

If you are not going to have this cooler running in passive mode, then the next thing to do is to install a fan on top of it:

The last thing I would like to add here is the recommended retail price for SilverStone Nitrogon NT06-Lite, which is set at $42 (without the fan).