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Corsair H60 installation question

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WiL11o6

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I noticed that when I mount the cooler onto the CPU, the thumb screws included, are indeed thumb screws, so I cannot use a screw driver to tighten more than what I can tighten with my fingers. The manual, and online pictures show that the thumb screws included has a slot for a flat head screw driver, whereas mine do not. I find it difficult to tighten evenly to the motherboard as I can't fit my fingers in the slot to tighten further. So I think that might hurt cooling temps if I can't tighten with equal pressure on 4 corners.

2nd, do I leave the plastic in between the motherboard and mounting bracket?
 
Mine came with the slotted thumbscrews, and one of the brackets was poorly threaded. I tightened it down as much as I felt safe doing before I mounted the hs on the proc, then adjusted the other down as tight as I could without scaring myself too badly. My hosting site is dead atm, or I would post pics.

I'm not sure what you mean by leave the plastic in between. A difference between an intel and an amd processor mount I think?

Corsairs forums have videos of the install process.

http://www.corsair.com/blog/mounting-the-hydro-series-h60-cpu-cooler-to-your-intel-motherboard
 
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The back X mounting plate has a piece of 1mm thick plastic in front of it so when I mount it behind the motherboard, the piece of plastic is against the motherboard.

And yes, my thumbscrews are not slotted...is that a manufacturing defect?
 
WiL11o6 said:
The back X mounting plate has a piece of 1mm thick plastic in front of it so when I mount it behind the motherboard, the piece of plastic is against the motherboard.

And yes, my thumbscrews are not slotted...is that a manufacturing defect?
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I would guess it's more of a we got a shipment of these in, dump em in the hopper kind of thing.

On the plastic piece, sure looks like it.



The back plate has a plastic covering for insulation, and 4 adjustable threaded nuts. Adjust these 4 threaded nuts to fit the hole pattern of the motherboard used. Apply the back plate to the back of the motherboard as shown with insulated side against the back of the motherboard and with the extruded portion of the nut through the holes in the motherboard.
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One more thing. I was removing the h60 from the CPU today to clean the thermal paste off since I am getting a new motherboard, and I noticed that there is a line, almost scratch like underneath the cooler on the copper. First I thought its okay because that's what the thermal paste is for, to fill the gaps between cooler and CPU, but I also don't think there should be a line there. Is this normal?
 
Quick question about the H60. I just am trying to verify I installed it properly. I'm seeing idle temps of 35* C on my brand new (not overclocked) i5 2500k. I'm seeing this is a little on the high side compared to others who are getting around the same idle temp OC'ed...but...my apartment's AC never really works all that well either, so the ambient temp is also a little high. I'm thinking I'm OK but I just wanted to ask and make sure.
 
Don't worry about idle temps - too many outside factors can affect it (idle CPU usage, ambient temps, etc).
 
Yeah, I think you're right. The cooler is definitely on right...I added a second fan for a push/pull configuration, and the ASUS ez-mode software OC'ed my system to 4.3 GHz, with load temps (Prime95) holding steady at about 52* C. Tomorrow I'll start working my way higher to see what it can really do.
 
4.3 load temps in the 50s with an intel proc.... yeah it's definitely doing it's job.
 
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