Backplate-less cooler

[Senna]

Hello guys

I am looking for a good cooler [air or closed water loop set] that doesn't require backplate bracket for 1155 socket.
Reasoning is simple . . .i used my old case with my old emmmh . . what ever they are called . . .[the little copper thingies that lift motherboard from the aluminium case body?] Thread in them got damaged so i cannot unscrew out my sabertooth from the case at all. Well. . . not without destroying the case or the board. CM 690nv doesn't have any "backplate" cut out as well, just some vent holes.

So . .something mounted on plastic "Intel stock cooler style" linchpins would be perfect.

 

[Perturabo]

The decent coolers I can think of use back plates, so I would say try and free your mobo.

So the screws that go into the standoffs through the mobo wont come out or the stand offs wont come out of the case?

Surely if you just try to undo them with a screw driver either the screw through the mobo will come out of the stand off or the stand off will come out of the case with the screw still in, depending on which thread is ruined? Then if you have screw and stand off still attached to the motherboard you can use pliars plus screw driver to remove them once the mobo is free. Then just get new stand offs/screws.

 

[Senna]

Well stand off's are not removable from the case mobo plate [due to the poorly design mobo backplate thingy. It didnt have any thread so u just had to force stand off's into aluminium holes] , 2 screws just rotate in stand off's and cannot seem to be unscrewed at all or removed. . . + this case is really pain to deal with so even if i could remove mobo i think i wouldn't do it.

I found "Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 " and it does have plastic pushpin mounts so it could be ok, but it seems oddly cheap. . . .

Also i understand that huge heavy blocks of metal should be screwed in for security but something like backplate for H100 and similar seams a little bit too much since the cpu block is lighter than stock cooler.

 

[jamesriley94]

The CM Hyper TX3 uses pushpins I think?

I'd say that was better than the AC Freezer

 

[Perturabo]

The backplate supports the weight on heavy air coolers like you say but on something like the H100 pressure is important to get a good thermal contact, hence the strong backplate.

Getting a cooler that doesnt need one will solve the short term issue but in the long run the fact that your mobo is now one with your case will like come back as an issue later.

So I would still say try and get it off. The screws that are just spinning are probably just turning the standoffs in the hole they are mounted in. If you have some thin pliars or even a small spanner you may be able to hold the stand off still (if it is one near the edge of the mobo) whilst you undo the screw.

 

[Senna]

I bought arctic cooling Freezer 13 Pro and i got my cpu to 4ghz at vCore1.264
With this cooler set up at push pull i am getting the extreme max of 51 degrees C but then fans kick in and bring the temps back to ~42C [wPrime]

I found a design flaws of this cooler [i.e. why it doesnt perform as well as it should]. Even with the fan forcibly stopped by my finger and ~70degrees on cpu the very top fins of radiator are metal cold. So the heatsinks in this just cant move heat effectively.

the two F12 120mm arctic cooling fans are uber quiet. . . but they have really sharp edges. I made a papercu...i mean fancut on my finger while messing with them.


Also i had to disable fan RPM protection - bios wouldn't let me boot up because the rpm was below ~580 and the 600rpm is the lowest limit. Well i can't blame it too much though, ive got a grand total of 9fans in my mobo (not including gpu fans of course ), most of them connected to mobo directly.


For the £23 i paid. . .i think it was worth.