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Thermalright's LGA775 Bolt-thru Kit Question

DarkRogue

DarkRogue

Golden Member
Hello,

I bought thermalright's LGA775 bolt-thru kit upon hearing advice that it would be vastly better than the stock mounting solution for my Scythe Ninja. I notice there's a piece of white -what appears to be wax paper- thing covering a square near the center of it. Am I supposed to remove this or leave it on when installing this? The instructions are not clear on that, but I believe there may be some adhesive under it.

What should I do about it?

Thanks in advance.
 
It is a single use adhesive. You remove it and stick the backplate to the back of your motherboard so it sticks there when you put the motherboard back into the case.
 
Oh, okay, thanks.

So that means it stays on forever, or can it easily be removed?
I don't plan on removing it anytime soon but I'm wondering if I will have to remove it for replacing heatsinks.
 
It can be removed but it can't be reused (the backplate can but not the adhesive

And some heatsinks use the same bolts so the backplate may not need to be removed.
 
That's a pretty clever mod, but I don't anticipate needing to change heatsinks anytime soon yet. I believe the Scythe Ninja will do well for me, but it was just a what-if.

I noticed his backplate has plastic things though, mine doesn't have that..
 
The plastic guarantees that the metallic part will never make a short on the motherboard just if there are any long leads. I thought all the bolt-through kits came with it!

Even if you think you will never need to remove the back plate, I still advise against sticking the backplate to the motherboard.
 
It looks like Thermalright decided to remove the plastic from the product.
I don't think you need to come up with a replacement plastic.
 
Okay, hopefully it won't short anything. I'll think about doing that cardboard mod though, but need to see how it affects the cabling of my P182. If nothing else I probably won't lose much sticking it on, I haven't really touched my Athlon XP 2600+ or the heatsink I put on after the first boot up 5 years ago. I don't believe I'll go nuts swapping CPU/heatsinks with this rig either.
 
Why don't you just leave it on, as is? You don't have to expose the adhesive, just leave the waxpaper thingy on it and use it that way. I've remounted mine like a half dozen times..
 
I have a Arctic freezer pro and plan to install the bolt thru kit on mine next week. Any tips on how to remove the push pins out of the cooler?
 
Originally posted by: emblem
I have a Arctic freezer pro and plan to install the bolt thru kit on mine next week. Any tips on how to remove the push pins out of the cooler?
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There used to be an article on how to but the link is dead. Anyone have a mirror link? I need the same thing so I can put mine on my AC F7 Pro.
 
Originally posted by: SteelSix
Why don't you just leave it on, as is? You don't have to expose the adhesive, just leave the waxpaper thingy on it and use it that way. I've remounted mine like a half dozen times..
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That's the ticket! :thumbsup:

You may need a friend to help install it, but it's the best solution.
 
I will probably do that, just it may be more annoying IF I decide to swap heatsinks, but again I don't think I'll be doing that so maybe it's fine for my purposes.
 
Originally posted by: emblem
I have a Arctic freezer pro and plan to install the bolt thru kit on mine next week. Any tips on how to remove the push pins out of the cooler?
Click to expand...

Does anyone happen to have that link he's talking about?
 
I just went through the huge hassle of removing those annoying pushpins to install the Ninja. Thermalright's pages are all out of whack because they seem to move them a lot, but the ol' internet archive machine worked wonders.

http://web.archive.org/web/200...n_lga775_uninstall.htm

Half the pics are missing but it's enough. I didn't really care about the push pins so of the pics I did see, just take a pair of screwdrivers to them and yank them off.

On an unrelated note, does anyone know how to tape or mount some foam inside the case so that it will actually STAY afixed for more than 20 seconds? I've got a small block of foam I want to use to cover the top vent but it keeps falling off..
 
Do you guys think installing this bolt thru will drastically improve my temps? As in at 2.5 overclock on a E2200 on stock volts settings I get a coretemp of 50C using coretemp .96
I got temps of 44C when I had everything at stock. I just really have high temps even after re-seating my arctic cooler multiple times.
 
idle. Load gets to 65C

Using coretemp .96.1 I get temps of 15C lower which match what the cpu readings are in my BIOS but .96.1 can't be right since the bios doesn't report core temps.

With my stock cooler on everything stock settings I had temps of about 47C

 
I think it will. Your loads are a little high but, your idles are quite high, that usually indicates to me that mounting is an issue.
 
So maybe the push pins just aren't touching the cpu good enough? When I click the pins in it clicks really good. It doesn't take any big amount of pressure or anything, it just goes in place.
 
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