Heatskin mounting issues

Frozennova · 19 Apr 2010 at 15:26

Attempting to fit a Coolermaster Hyper 212 plus and no matter how tight everything is or amount of paste used it cannot hold the temps, even in the bios on stock clocks ( Athlon II x2 240) its idling at 67 degrees.

Is this due to me removing the tops of the heatpipes to make it fit, and if it is what are my options.

The heatpipes are hot at the bottom but the top of the heatsink is cold to touch

matkeys · 19 Apr 2010 at 16:05

what was the cpu like before? what paste you using

Frozennova · 19 Apr 2010 at 16:23

Problem discovered and cannot be solved.

Once I looked up on how heatpipes work it was clear why cutting the tops off to make it fit are a bad idea.

Let this be a lesson to you all

matkeys · 19 Apr 2010 at 16:40

ah yes that would be that they have a vacum in side right?

well there cheap coolers any way arnt they?

matkeys · 19 Apr 2010 at 16:43

no i see its a liquid to vaoupour transfer in side the pipe

Frozennova · 19 Apr 2010 at 16:45

Yea it uses phase change, theyre £20 so no cheap cheap.