Just finished my first PC build ever.. 10 houra...

ThatAsianGuy

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Where to begin, It took me (brace yourselves) 2 hours to install the zalman CNPS10x cooler.

Then I TRIED to do cable management but ended up in a disaster half my fingers have cuts.

I took the heatsink off atleast 5 times to reseat the damn thing.

The Coolermaster HAF x case is massive but couldent manage to get the bloody thing to shut nicely, i ended up putting the thumb screws in while holding the side panel.

Anyways does this sound right to you guys, the temp on my 3570k is around 35 degrees at idle, and when i did prime95 for only 5 minutes it went to 45 degrees. Is stress testing the PC a must because i am really tired and want to go sleep and when i wake up i want to play some BF3 :)
 
How did it take 2 hours to install a heatsink?

Screw the bracket in, put a little blob of TIM on the CPU, screw the cooler on.
 
Knowing how much fun it was to install my Zalman CNPS9900MAX cooler it doesnt surprise me that it took you so long to install yours. Thankfully I didnt have to reseat mine, the only problem I had was sticking the manual to the double sided sticky foam that goes on the mounting plate :o

temp wise that sounds pretty normal. I'm not sure what the maximum temps of ivybridge processors are but usually during a stress test the temperature will rise very quickly to start, but the increase will slow down as it nears its limit (~75C?)

Raikiri said:
How did it take 2 hours to install a heatsink?

Screw the bracket in, put a little blob of TIM on the CPU, screw the cooler on.
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On a Zalman this is harder than you'd think because you need to use some specially made tool that can screw in an alan key type screw while the alan key itself is at a silly angle. 2 hours to reseat it 5 times sounds about right for a first go considering its mounting mechanism is made of lots of fiddly parts all needing that retarded alan key
 
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Yeah temps look fine. And 2 hours to install a cooler? Bloody hell!

Stress testing is not really needed at stock clocks, it's only when you overclock you need to test it to see if it is stable at 100% load.
 
Reaper 392 said:
On a Zalman this is harder than you'd think because you need to use some specially made tool that can screw in an alan key type screw while the alan key itself is at a silly angle. 2 hours to reseat it 5 times sounds about right for a first go considering its mounting mechanism is made of lots of fiddly parts all needing that retarded alan key
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The newer ones don't, they use basically the same mounting system as my Thermalright which takes 2 minutes.

from CNPS10x review said:
Installation of the CNPS10X Quiet onto an AMD system was very easy and can be done without the removal of the motherboard.
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