Tuniq tower concerns

Spike560

Spike560

Spike560

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Hi all,

I've been looking around at this product and I have a couple of questions:


1. This thing looks huge and heavy! Will it break my motherboard in two if I have the case upright?

2. How difficult is this to fit? Will I have to take out the old motherboard in order to fit this?


Thanks!
 
Not sure if it ships with any, but most heatsinks come with some either pre-applied or a tube of it. Although I normally use my own such as Arctic Silver or MX-1 stuff.
 
Tuniq Tower comes with tube of MX-1.
It's heavy and pain to fit ( thought i'm gonna break the mobo in half ).

On the other hand it cools very very well and is dead silent :).
You get nice fan controller with it as well.

And I would get a tube of MX-2.
 
Hi Spike,

I've just bought and fitted a tower and its quite simply brilliant. It IS huge but looks very cool when fitted and the temp drops are massive. I've gone from using a Akasa AK-975CU which even at stock speeds on my q6600 was up at 60c under full load to 3.2ghz with the temps never going higher than 55c. You can barely hear it as well which is a massive bonus. Can't recommend it highly enough.
 
The Tuniq isn't heavy at all imho. You might want to double check the dimensions, just to make sure it'll go in the case. ;)

You'll have to take the mobo out to fit the back plate; if possible, fit the whole thing outside the case. It is possible to fit the tower in the case (once the backplate is in place), but it's a real dog! Just depens how much room you have to play with.
 
It's a horror to fit, made worse on boards with lots of silly copperwork round the CPU socket. AND, be careful with your CPU power line and any stuff from the backplate that needs to be plugged in near it........in a tight case, you'll be taking the board out AGAIN if you don't think that through.

Worth it?
Cools like crazy, so yes.
 
thegoonden said:
It's a horror to fit, made worse on boards with lots of silly copperwork round the CPU socket. AND, be careful with your CPU power line and any stuff from the backplate that needs to be plugged in near it........in a tight case, you'll be taking the board out AGAIN if you don't think that through.

Worth it?
Cools like crazy, so yes.
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Hehe! The fist time i fit mine i forgot to plug in the 8-pin power.. Had to take the lot out again lol!
 
Same here with the 8pin! Although no way i was taking the motherboard out for it, as my case was small anyway and therefore awkward as hell.
Fortunately i have what people call piano fingers..so after a tense half hour of positioning it in place using my index and middle finger to hold it, i pushed it in very furtively with a screw driver.. almost slipped once onto the motherboard... and had a beer to cool my nerves before finishing the rest of the build :P
 
qwerttty said:
so after a tense half hour of positioning it in place using my index and middle finger to hold it, i pushed it in very furtively with a screw driver.. almost slipped once onto the motherboard... and had a beer to cool my nerves before finishing the rest of the build :P
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Had to quote that - excellent description :D We've all been there!!
 
IICR the TT comes with tuniq TX-2 which is a very good cooler. and for me the beest is OCZ freeze. beats my MX-2 and ASV by 10 and 8 respectively (thoguh it was chiller on the mx2 day) and with the mx-2 i was at stock on my E2140, with the ocz freeze i was on 1.4V at 3GHz.
 
Thanks for the replies guys!

So it arrived on Friday so today is the day I attempt to install...


Any tips on how to get a decent application of the thermal paste onto the CPU? I've heard the thinner the better?


Thanks
 
which thermal paste have you used? There are instructions on the arctic cooling website for the AS5, use that methodoligy when applying the TT paste if its a grease.
 
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