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I’ve just bought this: the Cooler Master V8 cpu cooler! It’s pretty big, and it takes quite some skill to install this monster! First of all we need to take out the whole motherboard.

This is a picture of my motherboard comfortably sitting on the desk:

Then I had to take out the old cpu cooler, and clean all the thermal paste from the cpu itself…

And remove the old cooler stand from the motherboard:

Now with the old cooler brace removed from the motherboard I can put back the microprocessor, and spread carefully new thermal paste on it.

Mounting the AM2 staff on the cooler was very easy, now all that is left to do is to push the cooler into place, making sure that the cpu is in the right spot and pushing to even out the thermal paste.

Then the last part was actually the most difficult.. to turn back the motherboard and screw the four bolts at the back of the cooler stand
to fix it in place. After that, we’re ready to mount the motherboard back in the chassis and turn on the (now more silent) pc.