On mine one of the holes weren't manufactured quite right - so I had to take a dremel and grind out plastic so that the backplate would fit on my ASUS motherboard - which basically means that that particular hole is not holding the screw from the other side much at all thus hindering the seating of the cooling pump on the CPU.

easy set up if you watch the video works as intended may be bad plastic but mine isn't broken so i don't want to test

The top of the cooler is mostly covered in a nice smooth matte plastic finish and it looks really cool

Back plate is a cheap pliable plastic with pot-metal hex standoffs reminiscent of a $12 aftermarket air cooler from the 90s

The top of the cooler is mostly covered in a nice smooth matte plastic finish and it looks really cool

easy set up if you watch the video works as intended may be bad plastic but mine isn't broken so i don't want to test

For less than $8, the Noctua part is far and away superior to this Corsair piece of flimsy plastic

I needed to RMA the first motherboard it was installed on, when attempting to reinstall on the replacement motherboard the cheap plastic mounting bracket that goes on the backside of the motherboard would no longer hold the mounting screws tight

you will cause the receiving nut head on the back plate to spin and damage the plastic that keeps it from moving.

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

No matter the fan cooling system I used, I always hit 90 C if stressing or high OC gaming.

CPU temp used to get as high as 80 C using the stock cooler, with the Corsair Hydro it has not crossed 44 C yet.

Dropped my 8 core AMD processor from 40 C to 24 C while idling

bracket).The GPU was running at 45 C idle / 91 C under load, and it was throttling while using Sapphire's cooler

The intel stock cooler would reach 80 to 90 c under load.

the thing never breaks 38 C even when it is super busy.

This one is totally silent, cooler my AMD 8350, when I play Battlefield 4 on ultra settings, 50°C its the average temperature on my CPU, very easy to install.

Gaming and higher OCs (400-600 Mhz on both CPUs) produce idle at ~32-35 C and ~65-68 C under gaming load

Excellent Cooling power 45 C' under full loadIts low Profile Grill makes it great for mid ATX CasesEase of InstallWater Pump takes less space and looks coolCons:NoisePC used:AMD Phenom II 955ASUS M4A87TDAMD Radeon