help with hiper case, s754 and 1u cooler

[MrT]

Hi,

Can anybody help me. I am in the process of building a htpc with the hipermedia case and an asrock s754 motherboard. I bought this cpu cooler
http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=21925
as it was the only place i could find it in stock. All was well until i started to fit the cooler. The motherboard seems to have a plastic heatsink holder around the CPU but it doesn't seem big enough for this cooler to fit in. If i remove the plastic holder i can fit the cooler but there is nothing to screw it into.

Have i bought the wrong thing or am i just being thick?

Mr T

[BUFF]

Asrock have a habit of using 4 plastic plugs inside the bracket to fix it to the board whereas most others screw through the 2 holes, through the board & into a backplate.
It looks like with that cooler you would want to remove the bracket & then screw through the holes into a backplate (which the Asrock probably doesn't have but you can buy the bracket & backplate as a pack for~£5 from places like Kustom)

[MrT]

Thanks,

would you be able to post a link for me so i can see the kind of thing you mean. i have looked on kustom and cant see anything

[kempez]

Like zis?

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_3711.html

[MrT]

Like zis?

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_3711.html

thanks,

so this thing sits under the motherboard? Its hard to tell from the picture but it looks too thick

[BUFF]

No, it's 2 part.
1 part is the part that is already fitted to your board (with the prongs) & then under that is a plate - you can see the 2 screws that go down through.
The board gets sandwiched between the 2.

[MrT]

No, it's 2 part.
1 part is the part that is already fitted to your board (with the prongs) & then under that is a plate - you can see the 2 screws that go down through.

oh, i see now. Shame its out of stock at the moment.

I'm a bit miffed i have to pay an extra £10 (inc delivery) for a little bit of plastic. Loses some of the benifits in buying a cheapo motherboard in the first pkace

Thanks for all your help

[scrandman]

Quite a lot of the aftermarket heatsinks come with a backplate.

Check out the pics of this very similar one from newegg in the US:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Showim...tsink+-+Retail

[MrT]

that looks like what i'm missing

wouldn't the fact thats its metal mean it would short out some of the contacts on the back of the motherboard?

[BUFF]

Depends upon both the board & plate.
If you look at the pic I posted above that one has a pad/gasket between the board & the plate & there is a hole where the back of the socket is.
Also some of the backplates are plastic/nylon etc.

[scrandman]

Point is, you might be able to pick up a CPU cooler with a backplate included for less than the £10 Kustom are looking for.

[BUFF]

carriage on that will be cheap as it's light.
Kustom's carr. starts @£1.21

[kempez]

Yep Kustom are very reasonable with small items and postage