Installation

One of the reasons we went with the NH-D14 for our new test bench was how simple Noctua heatsinks have been for us in the past. With the new socket brings an all new design, completely different than when Intel has done on any of their CPU’s.

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Noctua’s new setup has three parts to it. You have four bolts with different threads on each side, two brackets, and four nuts. The bolts attach to your motherboard, the two brackets go on top of those, and then the four nuts hold the brackets down. Beyond that everything else is the same as their old designs. The bracket gives the heatsink two attachment points. The NH-D14 has both of those spring loaded bolts c clipped to the heatsink where they won’t go anywhere. Installing the heatsink from here requires removing the middle fan and using the screwdriver included with the heatsink to tighten everything down.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #21622 15 Dec 2011 19:40
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