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OTOH, having the holes in a perfect square is great because that means any heatsink can be oriented in any direction the builder desires.
bdwilcox wrote:Defnitely a textbook case of how not to design a fastening system. Right up there with the Socket A clip that chipped CPU cores.
Bauxite wrote:Hole positioning is independent of push pins and you're still limited to right angles.
Truly good coolers work with many sockets and can be mounted in all four 90 degree positions anyways, even on rectangular mounts like AM2/3/etc.
derFunkenstein wrote:, not the Hyper 212+, both of which get frequent recommendations around here.
derFunkenstein wrote:Bauxite wrote:Hole positioning is independent of push pins and you're still limited to right angles.
Well, yes. On both counts. Just trying to give poor Intel a morale boost, to say "see, your mounting system isn't ALL bad".Truly good coolers work with many sockets and can be mounted in all four 90 degree positions anyways, even on rectangular mounts like AM2/3/etc.
Not my HDT-S1283. And in my experience, though I guess the mounting hardware could have changed in the last year or so, not the Hyper 212+, both of which get frequent recommendations around here.
derFunkenstein wrote:Bauxite wrote:Truly good coolers work with many sockets and can be mounted in all four 90 degree positions anyways, even on rectangular mounts like AM2/3/etc.
Not my HDT-S1283. And in my experience, though I guess the mounting hardware could have changed in the last year or so, not the Hyper 212+, both of which get frequent recommendations around here.
It works out in my system, because I have a top-mounted exhaust fan, so the vertical air direction works out fine.
Skrying wrote:... but has just been neglected for years or clearly not done for the customers sake.
morphine wrote:It's for backward compatibility sake. I do wholly agree with you, though.