Will the Corsair H50 fit in my lga 1150 socket?

NeoKorean

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I need help here. I bought a brand new h50, and a gigabyte motherboard the D3HP, which is a 1150 socket. Problem I have now is that i foudn out later that the H50 only supports 775, 1156, and 1366 sockets. Newegg said otherwise though. It said it also supported 1150 socket. I got the parts and I've ran into a problem, none of the screws on my mounting bracket aligns with the holes on the motherboard, when i mount the back plate bracket. I heard the 1156 socket was the same as the 1150 so i tried putting the screws into that hole of the bracket, but it still didn't align.

Plz help
 

dennphill

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Doesn't fit. I just bought from NewEgg last week (and was assembling today, until this!) an ASUS Z97M-PLUS motherboard (LGA 1150) with a (very good priced!) i5-4440 (and stoopid me, naturally not overclocking and I should have been content with the stock Intel cooler), I purchased also a Corsair H50 Hydro (because of a $20 rebate) to all go inside a new build with a Corsair Carbide Air 240. Anyway, the back-plate that came with the H50 just does not fit the 4 pre-drilled cooler mounting holes in the motherboard (they are in a 75mm square). The back-plate has three options to mount the screw nuts in holes at the 4 corners, but you cannot get to a 75mm spacing. I just put in a ticket to Corsair support - let's see how they handle this - thinking that perhaps they have a different back-plate that fits the 1150 better. (If they don't, my "reverse-Lithuanian engineering" fix will probably be to just clip the thin dies of the back-plate and just mount the sides - you can get a 75mm spacing on each side of the fat part of the back-plate - it's just the thin parts need to be overly stretched or shrunk to get it square. Less elegant, but it'll ptobably work fine, and you'll never see it on the rear of the MB.) Hope that helps, notlouis. More if/when I hear from Corsair Support.
 

normalgene

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Hey dennphill, I'm actually running into the same problem with my ASUS Z87 when I try to install the H50. Did Corsair Support ever get back to you about a different backplate to use? I just submitted a similiar ticket.