Installation

The installation is very straightforward and is basically the same as you would mount the stock cooler. The instruction manual is nicely illustrated and easy to understand.


First you have to attach the thermal pads to ensure good contact between heatsink base and the memory chips.


The pads are made from some soft rubber material, a bit like chewing gum. Once attached they sit there safely, yet they can be reused, even though they get squished a bit during installation.


After putting thermal paste on the core you put the cooler on top of it. I found it easier to put the cooler on the back and then put down the card on top of that.


Make sure the holes align.


Now screw in the four screws around the GPU core. Do not tighten them yet, just make sure all four screws are in their threads first. Next tighten the screws by taking one or two turns with the screwdriver, then going to the next screw. This ensures that the mounting pressure gets balanced evenly on the core.


Screw down the outer screws.


And finished! Very easy installation indeed.


All memory thermal pads are compressed slightly, which means that the cooler makes good contact with the memory chips.


The heatsink sticks out a bit over the heatsink, 3 cm to be exact. In normal cases this should not affect you, for small form factor cases this could become a problem.


While the air is getting sucked in, it flows over the voltage regulator heatsink, helping a little bit with cooling.