LGA775 cooling

bonzodog2

I've been running a Q6600 on a Gigabyte mobo for a while occasionally for Folding@Home, with a cheapo cooler like the stock Intel one, it has 4 little pins that push and turn. Worked fine.
A while back I bought a Corsair H50 liquid cooler (secondhand) on ebay, advertised as suitable to fit LGA775; just got around to trying to fit it. The motherboard has holes that are square in spacing dimensions, i.e. both sides are the same distance. The liquid cooler brackets supplied are not square in this way.
It has screws that go thru the board to a backing plate.
I had some Pentium4 mobos previously that had non-square, screw-thru-to backing plate style fixing.

Any advice/suggestions?

Lu Tze

bonzodog2 wrote: »

I've been running a Q6600 on a Gigabyte mobo for a while occasionally for Folding@Home, with a cheapo cooler like the stock Intel one, it has 4 little pins that push and turn. Worked fine.
A while back I bought a Corsair H50 liquid cooler (secondhand) on ebay, advertised as suitable to fit LGA775; just got around to trying to fit it. The motherboard has holes that are square in spacing dimensions, i.e. both sides are the same distance. The liquid cooler brackets supplied are not square in this way.
It has screws that go thru the board to a backing plate.
I had some Pentium4 mobos previously that had non-square, screw-thru-to backing plate style fixing.

Any advice/suggestions?

The product page suggests it doesn't fit 775. Not sure what you do to be honest, not sure what the Craic is with returns on eBay, especially if it isn't faulty

bonzodog2

It came with several mounting info sheets, LGA775/1156/1366 and AM2/AM3 and 3 different mounts

TerrorFirmer

It's probably missing the correct mounts for the 775 socket.

bonzodog2

Silly me. The backplate had 3 positions for the threaded inserts, for each of the intel CPUs it supports. Back together now and humming quietly at 55 C for 100% CPU. Might change the PSU fan sometime to get it even quieter.