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so picture this you get your last $20 in your wallet and you're putting together a use PC that you just hustled and you've built a rise and PC in the past and you've got a spare Wraith spire cooler very odd scenario I know but you don't want to go out and buy a new cooler master 212 because that'll add to the cost of the build so there is an option and that is mount the Wraith spire to your existing intel page 55 motherboard like I've done here so today's video is gonna be a little bit of a hack it's also gonna be a little bit of a story because I know everyone loves a good story ok ok well the dust was really thick anyway let's get on with it shall we welcome back to tech yes City there's Brian coming to you guys today with a video on how you could mount your existing Wraith spire cooler to a CH 55 motherboard or even they might even fit the LGA 1155 Zoar 1150 ones or 1150 s I know Intel released a lot of different sockets basically around the same amount of pins but they do indeed have a slight variations to the way they mounted now this bracket here is from an actual kit I believe and it's got the linings up and this is how I realized it may have worked in the first places because I lined this cooler up here with the Wraith spire this is actually just a small one I've already mounted the race spoiler and a previous build it it'll put the link up here but this here actually lined up pretty well the existing holes for the fan and now what I think's happened with this cooler is I think Coolermaster have been licensed to make the coolers for AMD I know they did on their Radeon graphics cards in the past and cool must have actually been making coolers for a while so the mould would have been made back in the day and I've actually had experience with a couple of these cool monster coolers already they're actually pretty thick they're of high quality and they do a pretty good job of cooling and now my first experience was actually on an LGA 1156 motherboard where you could screw down one of these coolers so I believe they've even possibly used the existing mold of these coolers and just adapted them to add the AM four screws for the new Rison CPUs so you've got these existing holes here that now if you go out and get some self-tapping and put washers on them make sure you use washers that are non conductive then you can easily mount these coolers by just literally screwing him down from behind and matching up the holes now in the case of the motherboard I had it was an asrock age 55 motherboard and you could only mount it on the diagonal because it didn't line up perfectly however diagonally mounting a cooler is still better than not mounting it properly at all you'll still get a really good connection in the case of this intel cooler it only weighs a hundred and eighty grams so it doesn't have a lot of cooling potential at all and in fact I used it in a previous video where I could only really get to see if you up to around about 3.5 gigahertz and this got it up to 3.8 Giga so there is a difference because this cooler will not this exact one but the red spire is closer to 400 grams I think it's about 420 grams so you're getting literally like 2.5 times better the cooling potential out of the race buyer then you would out of this Intel cooler now another thing as well it's got a copper base and this is an interesting thing about this cooler because it's not permanently attached to the actual aluminium on the cooler so it's got the copper base but when I hammered it down and this was because the standard height of the Wraith spire was actually hitting the capacitors and this was causing and not to cool properly I was getting like immediately 90 degrees out of the box and so I got a hammer to it and I banged it down I noticed the actual aluminium around the copper heat base was actually falling down so it isn't permanently attached so there are a little few weaknesses on this cooler but it still did a fine job again 3.8 gigahertz on hate 55 motherboard in less than ideal ambient temperatures which are above 25 degrees it basically until he gets the wind to hear there temperatures are always gonna be above 25 degrees but anyway back on topic the raise spire especially compared to these little coolers here from Intel they do do a better job of cooling and they do remain quiet off so if you do want to mount these now as I said before go get yourself some self-tapping screws and also you may wish to detach these original screws here on this cooler and so you just do this by getting a pair of pliers and then literally just tearing them off and then you can begin to mount this cooler onto your motherboard but anyway what about the screws themselves well you do have to use specific screws I'd say anywhere from 20 to 30 mil and I would recommend getting self tappers unless you want to pre drill out the holes yourself in the actual cooler the thickness of the screws themselves I'll put that in the description below for you guys but I had just had these four screws lying around in my screw jaw I've literally been over the years collecting screws from all walks of life so I'll put the details in the description below for what screws you should be using but after you've done that you just self tap them in but one thing to be careful of is make sure you don't cross thread the actual screws in going into the cooler and also if you're screwing it in it a bit of a hard fit so if you're bold is getting threaded as well on the top make sure you don't go too hard and actually break the screw because you'll then just be wasting a lot of times so what I'd recommend doing is if you're coming into a bit of a trouble maybe have a few extra screws laying around and then just unscrew that screw and then try a different screws so yeah and if you also mounted on a diagonal it's still gonna do a better job than cooling than this intel cooler as I said before I could only get this thing to max out around 3.5 7 gigahertz I think it was this thing got it to 3.8 gigahertz and I believe hotter ambient temperatures so it does give you a little bit of a boost to performance even on the diagonal mount and it of course does have the novelty factor of looking a lot cooler than a stock intel cooler anyway guys my monitors in the background they switched off automatically after a 10 or 15 minutes or something like that so if you guys enjoyed the video then make sure you hit that like button I have also heard of people mounting the wraith max with the LED lights on intel motherboards so you can do a lot more with these coolers and of course you can spend a bit more money if you wish to go for a pro setup this is more or less a basic hack if you're on a budget and you actually legitimately want to use this cooler to get better gains which is what i used it for an abrasive budget build so hope you guys enjoyed today's video make sure you hit the like button if you haven't already and i'll catch you in another tech video very soon also yeah i'm just trying out these monitors behind me because getting the right height and then we're gonna wall mount them might even do that later today and then start fixing up this studio making it look efecto and I'll catch you on another video very soon peace out for now bye the list of so the cooler itself does Google but so but anyway back on topic but anyway back on topic but anyway back on topic but anyway back on topic but anyway back on topic but anyway back on topic but anyway back on topic but anyway back on topic