Ok we are going to test this on my spare rig for the fact it would take me 4 times as long to install this on my SLI DR due to the fact of the water-cooling equipment in the way.
Test system:
- AMD XP 2500+ Barton (unlocked) clocked at 2.2 GHz
- DFI INFINITY NF2 ULTRA
- THERMALTAKE PUREPOWER 480W
- WESTERN DIGITAL 80GB IDE133
- 1 GB VALUE RAM
- THERMALTAKE VOLCANO 7
- THERMALTAKE PIPE 101 WITH SILENT 92 MM FAN
- SCYTHE KATANA CU
- Arctic Silver Ceramique
This heatsink and fan installation in a large case would be fairly simple, having the room around the socket and the power supply. Unfortunately for me, I am installing it in an Aspire turbo mid tower, which you can tell from the pictures is rather cramped with the minimal clearance with the power supply. In a larger full tower or a server case this would be an easier install. With the HSF installed, you can see on the AMD socket A, a CPU shim would be a wise investment with this HSF. The directions do have the proper install pic’s and the ones that are wrong. The instructions over all are easy to understand and are in multiple languages.
