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Just a note, for anyone coming across this thread in Google:
The Zalman CNPS5x 92mm tower heatsink, is INCOMPATIBLE (Edit: Scratch that, I got it to WORK) with the ASRock B150 K4/Hyper ATX mobo.
The mounting ring for 115x sockets, has protrusions on the side (like an AMD socket retainer), that the heatsink clips onto.
Well, on two sides, the mobo has a row of chokes, extending out from under the VRM heatsinks, and sticking up high enough, that you CANNOT get the clips for the heatsink down under the protrusions, to snug them in. It just doesn't work.
So, a stock heatsink works, with pins. I haven't tried a Hyper 212-family cooler yet.
Edit: Well, mounting it at a 90deg angle DOES NOT WORK. But I noticed, that the mounting ring, has a few off-axis protrusions. I didn't realized at first what they were for, I thought they were a three-prong AMD mount, somehow. But... you CAN use those, to mount the cooler off-axis, which is what I had to do.
I DID get it to work with the B150 K4/Hyper, and temps with my i5-6400 @ 4.51Ghz (167.0 BCLK, 1.410V vcore) are hitting 84C under OCCT:CPU 64-bit load.
That's a lot better than with the stock copper-cored heatsink, which would hit 95C within 2 minutes, and shut off the test. So far, it has gone 13 minutes, and no errors or thermal trip point (95C).
I think, now, with this heatsink, I can keep 4.51Ghz as my 24/7 OC. Hope that the 1.410V vcore isn't going to fry anything, long-term.
Edit: OCCT errored out, error on core #2, after 23 minutes or so. So, I guess my OC was erroring out before due to temps, so I didn't get to test it for a longer period.
I had a choice, boost vcore a tad (to 1.420V), or lower the BCLK, so I lowered the BCLK by one, to 166.0 BCLK. It means that I won't hit my magical 4.5Ghz, but oh well. Stability is key!
Edit: Hard freeze! (But HDD light continued to blink? I tried to load GPU-Z, and UI froze.) Anyways, now trying 165.0 BCLK and 1.400V vcore, 1.300 vDIMM.
The Zalman CNPS5x 92mm tower heatsink, is INCOMPATIBLE (Edit: Scratch that, I got it to WORK) with the ASRock B150 K4/Hyper ATX mobo.
The mounting ring for 115x sockets, has protrusions on the side (like an AMD socket retainer), that the heatsink clips onto.
Well, on two sides, the mobo has a row of chokes, extending out from under the VRM heatsinks, and sticking up high enough, that you CANNOT get the clips for the heatsink down under the protrusions, to snug them in. It just doesn't work.
So, a stock heatsink works, with pins. I haven't tried a Hyper 212-family cooler yet.
Edit: Well, mounting it at a 90deg angle DOES NOT WORK. But I noticed, that the mounting ring, has a few off-axis protrusions. I didn't realized at first what they were for, I thought they were a three-prong AMD mount, somehow. But... you CAN use those, to mount the cooler off-axis, which is what I had to do.
I DID get it to work with the B150 K4/Hyper, and temps with my i5-6400 @ 4.51Ghz (167.0 BCLK, 1.410V vcore) are hitting 84C under OCCT:CPU 64-bit load.
That's a lot better than with the stock copper-cored heatsink, which would hit 95C within 2 minutes, and shut off the test. So far, it has gone 13 minutes, and no errors or thermal trip point (95C).
I think, now, with this heatsink, I can keep 4.51Ghz as my 24/7 OC. Hope that the 1.410V vcore isn't going to fry anything, long-term.
Edit: OCCT errored out, error on core #2, after 23 minutes or so. So, I guess my OC was erroring out before due to temps, so I didn't get to test it for a longer period.
I had a choice, boost vcore a tad (to 1.420V), or lower the BCLK, so I lowered the BCLK by one, to 166.0 BCLK. It means that I won't hit my magical 4.5Ghz, but oh well. Stability is key!
Edit: Hard freeze! (But HDD light continued to blink? I tried to load GPU-Z, and UI froze.) Anyways, now trying 165.0 BCLK and 1.400V vcore, 1.300 vDIMM.
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