Contact Frames

[SpellowHouse]

I fitted three of these yesterday. Mostly because it was fun and I just wanted to see how easy it was or wasn't.
An interesting thing about it was that in all three motherboards that I fitted them to, all the screws on the original CPU frame had come loose. Not some, but all twelve of them.
Interesting because of course it will affect the distribution of pressure on the CPU. Whether that is a good thing is up for debate but it does make you wonder whether some systems most of the pressure is coming from the cooler rather than the frame. Food for thought!

 

[SpellowHouse]

LGA 1700.
Its odd that all the screws were loose.

 

[SpellowHouse]

Strange. Must be my house. Maybe I should move to one in a less earthquake prone area.

 

[SpellowHouse]

The good thing about it on Intel is how gosh darn tidy it looks compared to the standard ILM (right until it's covered by your cpu cooler and you never see it again).

That's true. They are nice.
What I don't really understand about them is the torque settings on the screws are low, both on the contact frames and the original, yet the force the standard clamp closes with seems way OTT.

 

[SpellowHouse]

Was it the same model of motherboard or were they from different brands?

They are all Asus.