This is keeping my cpu wayy cooler than stock heat sink

First, your motherboard probably relies on air flow created by the fan on the heat sink spilling over the socket and moving air around the chipset on the motherboard

If you want a robust heat sink mount, I suggest you seriously consider the Noctua mounting kit if you plan to use this Corsair water cooling product

Now, the flaw, and it’s not insignificant.... check your motherboard for capacitors that are inside that box created by the heat sink support holes

Now, the flaw, and it’s not insignificant.... check your motherboard for capacitors that are inside that box created by the heat sink support holes

If you want a robust heat sink mount, I suggest you seriously consider the Noctua mounting kit if you plan to use this Corsair water cooling product

If only the heat sink could just push and twist in like the stock fans

You'd think AMD would know a bigger heat sink and fan would be needed.

Was using standard heat-sink on a amd 8 core bulldozer and it dropped temp by 15 to 20 degrees Celsius

Needless to say, I very impressed as I was initially concerned I would have to reduce my OC settings

Not as great as I'd hoped...

This Corsair brand fan is much quieter then the one I

Now when I encode videos, the hottest I've seen my CPU get up to is

Decently cools my i7-7700K at stock speeds