Installed my OCZ Vendetta 2

[MarcVenice]

Ordered some as5 to go along with the OCZ Vendetta 2. Followed the AS5 instructions, took of the heatsink, and the thermal grease was spread out very well. I used some 96% rubbing alcohol btw, I walked through half the town, when I ended up buying it to the store nearest to me...

Anyways, installation was pretty smooth overal, but one of the pushpins was BENT, maybe I did that, maybe not, but I couldn't really bend it back. I had to install the other 3 pushpins, then wriggle in the last pushpin with a steady hand and some luck, even scratched my mobo whilst doing that hehe. Installed the fan was worse, I was lucky to have a topfan on my p182, so I could look down on it, but otherwise I do suggest installing the HSF outside of the case...

Idle = 33/34c, and load is 47c. That's with a e7300 @ 3.0ghz. Will be pushing it harder tonight.

 

[cubeless]

i had a vendetta that had a bent pin out of the box... i think it's ocz's packaging kind of sux... my v2 on a 4500 that needs a good volt push to get to 3ghz runs about the same temps... the v2 is a pretty good piece...

 

[TidusZ]

Pushpins can never be okay. The fact that one of yours was bent before you even touched it is evidence. If you ever need to reinstall it theres a good chance you'll have two bent and then maybe three, and you wont be able to jimmy it in anymore no matter how much time and effort you spend, and then you'll have to spend $$ on a bolt-through kit and wait on the shipping. Push pins are terrible, evil, ill-conceived, and deserve absolutely no praise whatsoever. Push pins make problems, bolt through solves them.

 

[geokilla]

I used the pushpins on mine and my temps don't go above 55C during OCCT load in the summer. You may want to switch to the retention brackets, but for me, push pins are doing fine right now.

 

[cubeless]

...and they beat the crap out of having to pull the damn mobo out to install... u haven't had any retention problems, even on ones i've reused a couple times... just be a little careful when u pull them out and don't be a gorilla when u put them in......

 

[scruffypup]

Originally posted by: TidusZ
Pushpins can never be okay. The fact that one of yours was bent before you even touched it is evidence. If you ever need to reinstall it theres a good chance you'll have two bent and then maybe three, and you wont be able to jimmy it in anymore no matter how much time and effort you spend, and then you'll have to spend $$ on a bolt-through kit and wait on the shipping. Push pins are terrible, evil, ill-conceived, and deserve absolutely no praise whatsoever. Push pins make problems, bolt through solves them.

Wow, what a biased opinion that has no relevant facts to support it. I have used and reused push pins as many have,... sure retention brackets give you piece of mind if you have doubt or cannot take the time to deal with pushpins properly, but they wouldn't be out there if they were "never okay"

 

[daw123]

I personally don't like push-pin either. I'm sure with the amount of effort and expense manufacturer's put into HSF development, they could come up with a better, cost effective solution to push pins.

That's just my personal opinion.

Plus I couldn't get all four push pins to lock into the MB on my TT BigTyp (see-saw effect happened). I had no choice but to buy a bolt through kit. I least I can re-use the kit for my new CPU water block

 

[Zepper]

"give you piece of mind"... :roll: scruffy "Well, I'll give you a piece of my mind you whippersnapper.": Mr. Grundy.

.bh.

 

[MarcVenice]

Well, if you look at this website: http://www.guru3d.com/article/...ooler-roundup-review/5 you can see the white part of the pushpin, right? Thats the piece that goes through the holes in the mobo, but 1 of it's 'claws' was bent out, so it could no longer go through the whole. Not sure if it was me or OCZ ...

The retention rubbers that come with the HS, to attach the fan, do make it quiet, but they are also a PAIN to get in, and you will surely bend some of the heatsinks aluminium fins together, trying to get them in. Must say I had better experiences with my previous arctic freezer 64 pro.

Right now I'm up to 3.6ghz and 58c or so under load. I had it at 3.8ghz, but needed quite a bit more vcore and temps would go into the 64c range. Not sure if I'm comfortable leaving it there. It's purely vcore though, because as soon as I lower the vcore it will become orthos unstable.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

If you bought a retail CPU just take the pushpins off of the retail heatsink if you break ones on your real heatsink.

 

[gmofftarki]

I also have an OCZ V2 that has been causing some issues but the motherboard died on me, so it's a moot point for now:

Even if it's possible to INSTALL the heatsink inside the case (but difficult) have you found any good way to uninstall it inside the case? Two of the thumbscrews are directly in line with where the NB heatsink would be on any decent motherboard, making it near impossible to uninstall without removing the motherboard and everything attached to it first?

Just curious if anyone else had the same issue, because it annoyed the heck out of me:

Case: Antec 900
Motherboard (at the time): MSI P7N SLI Platinum, being replaced with ASUS P5Q since I hate MSI and should have learned from past experience.

 

[scruffypup]

Originally posted by: Zepper
"give you piece of mind"... :roll: scruffy "Well, I'll give you a piece of my mind you whippersnapper.": Mr. Grundy.

.bh.

LOL

Ok Zep, good point, I was obviously missing a "piece" of my mind that day,.... once you have young pups like I have,... you tend to lose a "piece" of your mind, or at least misplace a "piece" now and then,.... as well as lose some "peace" now and then!!!

 

[Spicedaddy]

push pins work fine for me, what sucks is having to install/uninstall the fan while the heatsink is in the case (to access 2 of the push pins)

 

[Cookie Monster]

Is the thermalright 775 bolt-thru kit compatible with the vendetta 2?

 

[zerocool84]

I didn't like the pushpins on my Freezer7 and bought the bolt through kit. I'm glad to have piece of mind with the screws in the event that my case might get knocked over by one of my animals while my comp is on. I reused the plastic coolermaster base that came with my stockish coolermaster HSF as I didn't want to use the metal one that came with the kit.

 

[ClockHound]

Push pins are great. For an Intel cost accountant's system. Not for mine.

Just built a new system with the Xigmatek bolt thru kit holding the Vendetta securely, simply and quickly. Oh, and one of the OCZ pushpins was bent out of the box. I don't care. They're cat toys now. Not great cat toys, but best use for them I've found.

 

[MarcVenice]

Meh, pushpins were fine for me because I didn't have the remove the whole motherboard etc to get it on. Maybe next time when I change my PSU I might just order a bolt-thru kit with it though.

 

[Gillbot]

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/lgbowiscsp.html



IMHO, Pushpins are NEVER ok.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Gillbot
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/lgbowiscsp.html



IMHO, Pushpins are NEVER ok.

Indeed. They are the DEVIL!

 

[MarcVenice]

It's not like bolt thru kits are perfect. Some people have to use a washermod, and still get different temps in 2 out of 4 cores...

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
It's not like bolt thru kits are perfect. Some people have to use a washermod, and still get different temps in 2 out of 4 cores...

I can vary temps as much as 2-3C per mount if I'm not careful with the TIM application.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
It's not like bolt thru kits are perfect. Some people have to use a washermod, and still get different temps in 2 out of 4 cores...

That's not a fault of bolting through per se, but a fault of a popular cooler x-bracket not exerting sufficient and/or even pressure in the dead center. Springs ensure the pressure is even amongst the four corners.

 

[MarcVenice]

Like I said, I used springbolts, still no luck. Nothing is perfect, right

 

[gmofftarki]

Got my OCZ V2 installed and the whole system set up. I love it, keeps temperatures well within the range of "safe (per Intel)" even with a long run on IntelBurnTest (though it did get higher than I was 100% comfortable with, everyone goes slightly past their safe-zone, I think).