Flasherly wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:57:00 -0500, Bill
wrote:

They will be at least an inch over my Corsair
Vengence RAM, but I don't want pre-mature failure (due to the heat
drying out the tubes?)...

2. The Corsair cooler has thermal paste on it, of course. Will cleaning
the CPU with 99% alcohol be proper "prepping" before I attach the cooler?
The tubes are about "wicking" action - a portion of evaporative fluid
within that, heated, expands wicks upwards to the fins and
subsequently generates a closed circular cooling effect.

You're not going to 'wear out its pipes,' not at least in your
lifetime;- Perhaps by the year 2500, in case you want to leave a note
to any descendant prodigy.

Yeah, clean it with alcohol, that's what I also use. Unless I'm lazy
and dry wipe it with a paper towel. Both the CPU and the cooler. And
don't use those thermal pastes/tapes. I never ever do. They're
poorly regarded by reasonably available products from NewEgg or Amazon
in highend thermal pastes. Arctic Silver, for instance. Got a
"baggie" full of them, tubes accumulated over the years.

Might be OK for a pinch, most operators wouldn't know the difference.
Dropping money into a for real heatsink, for an assembler/builder, and
actively monitoring CPU temps, though, the heat mounting
paste/compound included with a lot of heatsinks, they're a joke.

A better CPU cooler, these days anyway, they're totally overkill and
awesome about adequate cooling. Shame, really, not to seat one
affixed most righteously. Think of it with impunity as the crowning
touch of your masterful competence.


You and Paul give great answers! I'm glad to learn that the tubes are so
stable!

I couldn't wait. I read somewhere that Corsair wouldn't put bad thermal
paste on their coolers.
I installed the CPU, wiped it with one end of a Q-tip with 99% alcohol,
dried it with the other end, and put the H-105 on.
I like the way the cooler went on compared to the Intel coolers. The
latter have generally aggravated me in the past, trying to get
all 4 of the plastic tips to come through the other side the way they
are supposed to. I didn't even think of taking a good look
at bottom of the new cooler (duh), wish I had. I had previously
noticed, through the plastic bad, that it had compound on it.

I don't claim "masterful competence" (ha, ha, ha!). I spent 15 minutes
figuring out the right way to attach the 3-pin pump connector to the
4-pin CPU_FAN header.
I lined it up with a plastic tab behind 3 of the pins (duh!)--I didn't
do that the first time. It goes on just fine in two different ways! ; )
I hope everything works when I turn it on in a day or two! : )
At least now I'm not "afraid" of installing the cooler. If I have to
redo it, now I'm not skeered!
Alot of worrying always seems to go into the 45 seconds it takes to
secure the CPU into its slot!
--Funny, when you're actually doing it, you don't worry too much. It
is well-rehearsed. I treat the CPU "delicately".

I have a Corsair 650D case. Tomorrow, I'll pull all the wires through
to the back of the case and push them through where they go.

I'll report back after "post time".

Thank you, and cheers!
Bill