Installation Tips

There is a special backplate that you need to use to install the cooler onto any of the supported platforms, so you will have to remove the system board from the case for any installation. However, before we move on to the mainboard we need to fasten the proper retentions to the cooler base:

LGA 775

Socket 754/939/940

Socket AM2

The great retention design and symmetrical retention holes in the cooler base are indisputable advantages of Ultra Chill-TEC compared with Titan Amanda TEC. There were absolutely no problems with the proper contact between the cooler base and the CPU heatspreader. Moreover, you can install the retention clips for K8 processors facing any direction that would be best for ensuring more efficient airflow from the cooler fan:

Once the retentions have been fastened and the backplate has been installed as instructed using soft padding and plastic plate, all you have to do is set the cooler onto the backplate rods and then tighten the spring screws. The cooler is pressed very firmly against the CPU, but thanks to the backplate the mainboard will not bend under the cooler weight.

And at last you fit the control unit into the free 5-inch bay of your system case and connect all the cables to it. The last thing you do is connect the fan rotation speed monitoring cable to the mainboard.

The assembled system with the Ultra Chill-TEC cooler installed looks as follows:

We you can see, since the cooler fan and heatsink are sitting pretty high up, Ultra Chill-TEC will not obstruct any of the electronic components on the mainboard in the area around the processor. Even if your system is using Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-9136C5D with tall heat-spreaders, you won’t need to mode the modules into the farther slots: Ultra Chill-TEC will not be in the way at all.

The fan highlighting is quite impressive, the modding fans will love it:

However, the fan is quite noisy even at minimal rotation speed. And at the maximum speed the noise is simply unbearable. So, the beautiful blue fan highlighting will not make up for this inconvenience.