CABLE CALAMITY

AS YOU CAN SEE, things are tight with this cooler. In hindsight, it’s not too bad knowing you can rotate the display, but even so, placing the tubing to the right of the block, close to the memory, and the cables to the upperside of the motherboard would lead to problems with routing as there’s so little cable management space here.

Securing the block is a straightforward process. Out of the box, it should come with some thermal paste preapplied to the bottom. If it doesn’t, squeeze a small dollop into the middle of the CPU. Then, making sure you have the correct bracket attached to the CPU block, position the block over the stand-offs, and then secure from each corner using the included thumb-screws. Do this a bit at a time, at each corner, by hand, before finally tightening off with a screwdriver (just make sure it’s not electric).