![]() ![]() We see this a lot with companies trying to offer heatpipe based solution, great cooling designs - but then they often have the most weird mounting solutions that not always will work to their benefit. Two more holes and screws an extra 5 cents in production would have bypassed that issue and likely would offer better mounting with more pressure on the CPU block as well. I could wiggle the cooler on the CPU cooling base with just two fingers rocking back and forth. Last but not least, the metal bracket that needs to be mounted to the CPU block is secured with just two screws, and that in my opinion is a design flaw as when there is pressure on one side, the other one gets lifted. No biggy really, but it could have been so much better. ![]() In our case we had to disassemble the two fans and the top LED RGB unit to reach the nuts and secure the cooler. Secondly, you'll have a hard time mounting the four thumbscrews on the riser nuts as they sit under the fans. ![]() That also means you'd need to miss out on one rank of your DIMMs as there is not enough clearance for it. If you have a motherboard with plastic shielding like the Sabertooth we used today does (and this IS exactly the reason why we use it) you could only mount it in the position as shown today. That mounting system however is not to my liking. There are a couple of problems though, the cooler design is lovely period. The cooling design certainly has that harbored in it. However I believe that with the right mounting system this cooler could easily shaved of a few more degrees C. Quite honestly I was hoping to see a little more perf out of the ATC700, it's not a bad cooler though. ![]()
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