Recent content by imported_Sounder

Oops, I take it back. The H bracket also has to be fastened securley to the heat sink. :frown:

Ya know, all Tt would have to do is make those long brass "stand off" nuts the right height so that you could screw the H bracket right down onto them, while maintaining the right amount of pressure on the CPU die. That would take the torque off the CPU. IMHO this would have iced the cake...

Using the Big Typhoon, my P4 640 3.2GHz EMT64 runs at 38 deg. C under full load (42 deg. C when OC'd by 10%). Not bad! :D But the mounting system could have been improved. It should have been designed to let the mobo take all the torque, while still providing proper contact pressure on...

I was wondering about this too. Then I remembered my first P4 Socket 478 install, with the stock Intel heatsink and fan, and how the motherboard would bend as the arms on their "thermal solution" were cammed over. I looked it up on the Intel website and they actually spec'ed how much the...

OK, I just received a Thermaltake Big Typhoon. Can anyone tell me if my observations are worth worrying about? The H bracket does not mount rigidly to the top of the heat sink. The center bar of the H just sits in a "slot" on top of the heat sink. This means that the torque supplied by the...