- Jul 19, 2015
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I recently bought a Hyper TX3 Evo for my i5-2500K. I accidentally attached the mounting mechanism in the wrong screw holes and might have bent the push pins a bit while trying to force it in to the socket. I eventually realized what my mistake was and reattached the mounting mechanism properly for LGA1155. It went in fine although I had to push quite a bit to get the pins to lock.
Since then, I've had the same performance, and good temperatures (35-40 idle to 60-70 full load), I live in quite a hot country where the ambient temperature is around 30 degrees so I'm guessing the cooler is working just as intended.
But I heard a kind of motor noise when the heatsink fan is spinning really fast, and when I put my hand on the heatsink I could feel it vibrating. It's not much, it's just slightly more than the vibrations you can feel from a spinning hard drive.
The heatsink is attached well enough that it doesn't move at all when I try to wiggle it around, and I can pick up my entire motherboard by the heatsink.
So is this normal? Is it bad? And can it possibly damage my CPU? I thought about reseating it but I'm scared about potentially damaging the push pins which I already might have damaged and had to struggle to get in.
I'd really appreciate you guys' thoughts on the whole thing. Thanks in advance!
Since then, I've had the same performance, and good temperatures (35-40 idle to 60-70 full load), I live in quite a hot country where the ambient temperature is around 30 degrees so I'm guessing the cooler is working just as intended.
But I heard a kind of motor noise when the heatsink fan is spinning really fast, and when I put my hand on the heatsink I could feel it vibrating. It's not much, it's just slightly more than the vibrations you can feel from a spinning hard drive.
The heatsink is attached well enough that it doesn't move at all when I try to wiggle it around, and I can pick up my entire motherboard by the heatsink.
So is this normal? Is it bad? And can it possibly damage my CPU? I thought about reseating it but I'm scared about potentially damaging the push pins which I already might have damaged and had to struggle to get in.
I'd really appreciate you guys' thoughts on the whole thing. Thanks in advance!
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