#Cooler master hyper 212 installation how to#

I tried with the springs on the long bolts above the bracket but then the bolt are a lot too short and the seems no way to apply enough tension on the springs to screw them to the short bolt thingies on the CPUcsocket. I have tried to mount the heat sink with the springs fitted below the brackets and between the long bolts and the short ones, but it will not tighten down sufficiently, even fully screwed in the heat sink is loose. There are four short bolt thingies that screw to the CPU socket frame, four longer bolts that screw into the short bolt thingies, four tensioning springs and 4 circlips that don't seem to fit the bolts, The outermost holes on the brackets allign with the LGA 2011 socket mounting holes Also my heat sink is a slightly different shape at the bottom and you couldn't fit one of these X shaped brackets if it came with one Mine brackets do have the three different positioned holes that I can see on the X shaped one on the videos

Initially I used a MSI Z270I GAMING PRO CARBON AC that is not compatible with Coffee Lake CPUs, I switched to a MSI Z370I GAMING PRO CARBON AC. They all have this X shaped mounting bracket, and mine has like 2 U shaped brackets that screw to the heat sink. On the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo the screws extend far enough for the backplate to be held in place by the bolts, it does not affect how tight the cooler is mounted on the CPU side. You would think that fitting a CPU cooler was easy enough, but having looked at a 2 or 3 installation videos, my Hyper 212 EV0 doesn't look quite like the ones in the videos.

#Cooler master hyper 212 installation how to#

The stupid thing is I can't figure out how to fit it. I have a used Cooler Master 212 Evo CPU cooler from a seller on ebay who said it only has mounting hardware for LGA 2011 - which is fine because that is what my motherboard is. I'm building a gaming PC completely out of second hand parts, trying to get the best performance I can for a low price.