I7 2600k Hydro H60 Loose Rear Plate

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Just a heads up if you own or buy one of these the washers supplied are not big enough to fill the space between the rear plate and the board so the rear plate has give which obviously means your cooler wobbles like jelly, yay!.

I just finished building my new pc obviously picked Corsair as thought would be the most well made... There is plastic spacers on the back but they are not big enough so the rear plate is not flush with the board. I purchased a couple of steel washers and put on top of each of the current plastic ones to fill the gap.

Went from 70c load thinking wtf is going on to 51c full load so was worth the head ache just cant believe it what a shoddy job.

Anyone else had any bother ?

 

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Hard to explain but from the back..

Back plate
Threaded screw holes with nut on the end
Then a black plastic washer
Motherboard

From the front you got..

4 Black double threaded screws that screw into the threaded holes that you push through from the back
The heat sync
4 thumb screws

I think my board must be slightly thinner then the norm as in theory once you've done the back bit and tightened the four screw heads that the heat sync sits on the four screws that stick up should be solid no give at all.

The four screws wiggle because the threads you push through go further in than they are supposed to so instead of being flush at the front of the board they stick out which means the back plate can move backwards.

Anyway I'm not taking it to bits again ..... Hope it helps someone.

My board btw Asus P8Z68-V.

 

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Hi,
Just an update soz guys been a while my pc solid as a rock btw .

You would need to own a h60 to try but basically before you mount the cooler you screw in from the front those four sorta black screw pole things that the heat sync sits on...

So you put backplate on with the black washers then the next step you screw in from the front those black long screws that the heat sync sits on...

The black mount screws it sits on that stick up with me you could actually move them up and down. Then when you put the cooler on top since they can move so can the back plate and the heat sync hence my problem.

I'd love someone to confirm this as I feel like I'm going nuts but mine was not right. My idle was about 50 and load would climb to 77 and would take forever to cool because of the poor contact then I added my own washers to make the ones that come with it slightly thicker, bravo idle around 29 load rarely goes over 54.

I wish I'd of took pics but to be honest it was a last attempt before I rma'd it and it worked so screw taking it to bits again for you guys . Might of been just mine but the problem was definitely the plastic washers but it could be just asus went a bit cheap and made that mental plate it rests on slightly thinner than other boards.

p.s. Yeah that's how I fitted mine in the top pic and your right it don't mention it in the guide you get with it if you don't fit it that way them screws you see push on the back plate bending it slightly... cheers corsair