Last advice, discharge your static current, or this could damage your mobo, processor or another component. Well, the 1st step before install your new cooler is buy one that fit on your case, so, make you sure that the cooler that you want fit perfectly on your case or you could have many problems when you try to close your case.ī.Ěnother advice, make you sure that the cooler support your socket, some coolers only support i7 or AM3 for example, you don't want spend your money in a cooler that don't support your socket processor.Ĭ.Ělso, make you sure that your RAM size isn't very high or this could be a problem when your socket is very near to your RAM slots.ĭ. Hi people, this is my 1st guide, so, don't be so hard.Ī. I tried with the springs on the long bolts above the bracket but then the bolt are a lot too short and the seems no way to apply enough tension on the springs to screw them to the short bolt thingies on the CPUcsocket.How to install your new cooler? A little Guide

I have tried to mount the heat sink with the springs fitted below the brackets and between the long bolts and the short ones, but it will not tighten down sufficiently, even fully screwed in the heat sink is loose. There are four short bolt thingies that screw to the CPU socket frame, four longer bolts that screw into the short bolt thingies, four tensioning springs and 4 circlips that don't seem to fit the bolts, The outermost holes on the brackets allign with the LGA 2011 socket mounting holes Also my heat sink is a slightly different shape at the bottom and you couldn't fit one of these X shaped brackets if it came with one Mine brackets do have the three different positioned holes that I can see on the X shaped one on the videos They all have this X shaped mounting bracket, and mine has like 2 U shaped brackets that screw to the heat sink. You would think that fitting a CPU cooler was easy enough, but having looked at a 2 or 3 installation videos, my Hyper 212 EV0 doesn't look quite like the ones in the videos. The stupid thing is I can't figure out how to fit it. I have a used Cooler Master 212 Evo CPU cooler from a seller on ebay who said it only has mounting hardware for LGA 2011 - which is fine because that is what my motherboard is. I'm building a gaming PC completely out of second hand parts, trying to get the best performance I can for a low price.

Cooler master hyper 212 installation