Scary mobo bend with Intel C2D HSF?

fish99

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Anyone else get a scary looking bend on their mobo after fitting the intel C2D HSF? The system does work fine btw.

Gonna replace with a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 eventually.
 
Yeah, I figured as much, but it's more bend then I've seen in a board before. It's more of a kink than a bend. I didn't look if the bend/kink was there before installing the HSF though.

Gonna get rid of the intel HSF a.s.a.p.
 
I never liked the way intel stock cooler and AC7 fitted on, i always had to apply so much pressure to the pins just to get it through the board and clipped in, and most of the time for me it would go into 'clipped mode' if you get what i mean, before even going through the hole. Applying so much pressure worried me because it made my board bend so much!
 
Got my new P35 mobo yesterday and built the machine up last night. fitted the freezer pro 7 with ease and minimum bend. I did find the intel HSF and real pain to fit originally.
 
Actually, I've just fitted the Freezer 7 Pro and it was a doddle, very little pressure required to get the plastic bits through the hole in the board at all. However there was ten minutes before that of failing to get them through due to having the plastic things rotated the wrong way. I'm sure the diagram that comes with the F7Pro is wrong :rolleyes:

Managed to fit it without removing the board from the case too.

Dunno if temps are necessarily much better since I didn't check them out before with the intel HSF. Getting about 46-47 degrees under 100% load with the fan on 50%, and about 30 degrees idle. It's achieved the main thing though, it's definitely quieter. Just need some quality case fans and my PC will be nearly silent.

Btw the F7Pro doesn't fit the IP35-E at all well and I had to break some plastic bits off the fan. Basically the passive chipset cooler occupies the same space as the F7Pro fan bracket.
 
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Back to the original topic, I couldn't actually see since I fitted the F7Pro with the board still in the PC, but I'm presuming the board bend is mostly gone since the F7Pro went on with so little pressure needed. Basically if you have to use any significant force with the F7Pro then stop, cause you're putting it in wrong.
 
BUFF said:
the flex is actually by design ...
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Not arguing with you in any way, but why would the flex be "designed"? surely it is simpler to add a support to the back of the board so it stays stiff when you install the frankly "*rappily designed" heat sink fixing than to ensure than the mutli layer pcb all flexes at the same rate all over?

I have to say that coming back to intel after being amd for years I was horrified when I fitted my first C2D heatsink. My last experience with a scythe ninja rev b was flipping scary too :o

turbotoes
 
Id really love to know what intel were thinking when they came up with that laughable design, whats wrong with having something similar to the am2 or 939 retention socket? Obviously theyre probably patented but something along those lines would have been nice.
 
not sure exactly why they dont make it so instead of the stupid push pins they dont just have it use screws or something instead, (screws with springs to apply the pressure would be the best) much easier and also screws dont wear out as quickly., i guess the person who designed the heatsink didnt realise how difficult the push pins are.
 
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