V10 Coolermaster Installation

Gandeh · 13 Oct 2011 at 10:47

Has anyone installed one of these? Any tips going into it? I'm just about to start doing mine but couldnt find any guides online.

Gandeh · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:10

Just an update, I grated my finger on the air vents and it's bleeding quite bad.

Haha !

HeX · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:37

Sounds like you are doing it right, I'm pretty sure step 6 is something about a blood sacrifice

Gandeh · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:39

Hah, is that Hex of Order of the badgers?

Yeah it was trying to pull it out of the stupid poly wrap it was wedged in and my finger slipped right along the vents. Losing your thumb really makes tightening screws hard

HeX · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:41

I'm afraid I know not of this Order of the Badgers, however it sounds amazing!

Gandeh · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:44

Ah okay

Nah I play online with a Hex and Sharpe. Thought you were of that Hex fame.

If I don't make it through the next part of this build I want you to have my thumb.

JAGRocks09 · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:46

It's fairly easy to be honest, hardest bit is fitting the power cables around it.

if you need any guidance with any bit let me know, I have re fitted mine about 4 or 5 times now.

Gandeh · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:49

JAGRocks09 said:
It's fairly easy to be honest, hardest bit is fitting the power cables around it.

if you need any guidance with any bit let me know, I have re fitted mine about 4 or 5 times now.

Thanks JAG, in truth you are right. The fitting of it was fairly straight forward and the back plate was actually a lot easier than I was anticipating. I'm very thankful for my HAF X case, gives me plenty of room. And there is only two leads from the V10 so the cable management has been easy.

HeX · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:50

What CPU did you go with in the end then? 1090T/1100T?

Gandeh · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:58

HeX said:
What CPU did you go with in the end then? 1090T/1100T?

Shhhh numbers aren't important, I went for one of those two

JAGRocks09 · 13 Oct 2011 at 12:49

Gandeh said:
Thanks JAG, in truth you are right. The fitting of it was fairly straight forward and the back plate was actually a lot easier than I was anticipating. I'm very thankful for my HAF X case, gives me plenty of room. And there is only two leads from the V10 so the cable management has been easy.

Ah so you have a cpu mount hole then?

I'm thinking of cutting one in my case that would make everything a lot easier for me. that way you can plug things in beforehand then install it, whereas I had to install out of the case then plug everything in.

Gandeh · 13 Oct 2011 at 13:04

Yeah I have a nice hole in the back plate, almost not big enough but I just managed to tighten the screws. I don't get why they don't make that hole a proper size.

JAGRocks09 · 13 Oct 2011 at 13:17

Mine hopefully will be made to measure, just got to find something to line the edges with, to make it look smart, and find spare time to do it in.

Still even if it is tight still easier then none at all