Thermalright has TY-145 & TY-147 (5 & 7 are fan blade design) with black housing and white fan.
The cooler mounts up fine if you know what you are doing. Sorry to sound harsh but it's the truth.
The misalignment of the mounting bracket is because you put the backing plate on with just the 2 front mount plate and without the crossbar. I installed all mounting pieces first without tightening the screws. Then tightened the crossbar screws and backed them off 1/4 turn. Then tighten the four backing plate screws. Now remove the crossbar and putit on the cooler. After doing the above you will not have any problems mounting the cooler
And you are the only one I've seen complaining about the finish on the corners.
Why don't you just return the cooler and get something else? But you would probably just complain about on it too.
Firstly i installed it exactly as per the instructions that were included, this youtube video which is on the Phanteks site contradicts their own instructions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtcLZ8oYKGc
The Phanteks instructions
Step 7: Fixed SolidSku mounting plate on PH-TC14PE
"Please put mounting plate onto cooler's alum base cover and use mounting plate screw to fix the mounting plate.
"Caution:" Tighten the mounting plate screw until it stops.
Steps 8, 9 and 10 are about attaching the fans.
Step: 11 Place the heastsink on top of the CPU and secure the mounting plate.
Please take off the protection cover at the bottom side of the heatsink first!
Then put the heatsink on top of the CPU and screw it to the screw threads of the mounting plate.
Caution: Do not use force to overturn the screw, please stop when the screw is at a natural stop.
Right, nowhere does the included instructions say what you said above.
The mounting plate should just drop straight onto the screw threads as per the instructions included, it doesn't as plenty of other people have found as i googled it when having probs with the mounting plate and came across other people having the same issues.
If you want to try and be a sm@rt @ss then at least get your facts correct before trying to be one, its as though you won't have a bad word said about Phanteks because of the great customer service you keep telling us about.
I fitted it as per their own included instructions, its strange like i said that none of their instructions include what you are saying and also a youtube video on how to install this cooler says you will have problems if you do it as per the instructions.