- Mar 4, 2015
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Hey guys, I recently put together my first build and have been loving it. I'm playing games at high settings which is awesome, and having an SSD is AMAZING.
Everything works fine but i've been getting temperatures that were a bit high with the stock cooler so i decided i would attempt to fix that buy buying the hyper 212 evo and some arctic silver 5 thermal compound. Now i'm not overclocking. I'm running an i5-4460 but i believe i messed up while installing the stock cooler by
placing it on the cpu and attempting to push the pins in only to realize that i hadn't primed them. I then pulled the heatsink off the cpu messing up my thermal paste spread and didn't clean off and reapply new thermal paste after. My temps aren't dangerous yet, but they're around 61-65 C while playing demanding games at 1080p and i want to be sure to take care of the cpu i bought.
The problem i've run into is that my h97 pro 4 asrock motherboard is more rectangular than square(http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H97%20Pro4/), causing the opening in my case that allows access to the back of the mobo for heatsink backplate installation, to nearly block 2 of the holes where the risers for the evo in the front part of the case will stick through to have washers attatched.
I've included this high resolution/extremely detailed representation of the way it looks because i don't own a decent camera and my phone is very bad.
http://puu.sh/gmW49/601218dc57.png
Now, i haven't actually attempted to install the cooler yet because my thermal paste doesn't arrive until tomorrow, but by gauging it with my eyes and lining up the washers with location they will be placed, it looks as if they will touch or rest against the back of my case when installed.
The washers im talking about can be seen at 1:00 into this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1aIm-yABc
I'm not sure if this could cause any sort of electrical problem so i turn to you fine guys and gals to see if anyone knows if it will or not.
The problem isn't that i cant screw the washers on without taking the mobo out of the case. It's that if i do in fact do so and remount the motherboard, there's a very real chance that the 2 right screws will be touching the case once installed.
If the washer touching the case is dangerous to my components, my alternative is to just use the new thermal paste with the stock cooler and hope for better temps which isn't a bad alternative, but i would like to have this Aftermarket cooler installed if possible.
TL;DR: Motherboard is shaped weird so Evo washers may touch back of case.
I hope i was clear enough in this, i'll edit this post if i wasn't.
Thanks you for your time
-Crayon
Everything works fine but i've been getting temperatures that were a bit high with the stock cooler so i decided i would attempt to fix that buy buying the hyper 212 evo and some arctic silver 5 thermal compound. Now i'm not overclocking. I'm running an i5-4460 but i believe i messed up while installing the stock cooler by
placing it on the cpu and attempting to push the pins in only to realize that i hadn't primed them. I then pulled the heatsink off the cpu messing up my thermal paste spread and didn't clean off and reapply new thermal paste after. My temps aren't dangerous yet, but they're around 61-65 C while playing demanding games at 1080p and i want to be sure to take care of the cpu i bought.
The problem i've run into is that my h97 pro 4 asrock motherboard is more rectangular than square(http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H97%20Pro4/), causing the opening in my case that allows access to the back of the mobo for heatsink backplate installation, to nearly block 2 of the holes where the risers for the evo in the front part of the case will stick through to have washers attatched.
I've included this high resolution/extremely detailed representation of the way it looks because i don't own a decent camera and my phone is very bad.
http://puu.sh/gmW49/601218dc57.png
Now, i haven't actually attempted to install the cooler yet because my thermal paste doesn't arrive until tomorrow, but by gauging it with my eyes and lining up the washers with location they will be placed, it looks as if they will touch or rest against the back of my case when installed.
The washers im talking about can be seen at 1:00 into this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1aIm-yABc
I'm not sure if this could cause any sort of electrical problem so i turn to you fine guys and gals to see if anyone knows if it will or not.
The problem isn't that i cant screw the washers on without taking the mobo out of the case. It's that if i do in fact do so and remount the motherboard, there's a very real chance that the 2 right screws will be touching the case once installed.
If the washer touching the case is dangerous to my components, my alternative is to just use the new thermal paste with the stock cooler and hope for better temps which isn't a bad alternative, but i would like to have this Aftermarket cooler installed if possible.
TL;DR: Motherboard is shaped weird so Evo washers may touch back of case.
I hope i was clear enough in this, i'll edit this post if i wasn't.
Thanks you for your time
-Crayon
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