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The casing used in our testbed is a Lian Li PC-P50R if you're interested to know. Given the space around the motherboard socket after installing the V6GT (as seen below), we have to say removing the heatsink will be equally troublesome. But for those who do not have such a feature in their chassis, or a removable motherboard tray, you'll have to remove the entire motherboard out of the chassis to change the processor.Īdditionally, one has to remove the two 120mm fans from the cooler before installing and the same applies when removing the heatsink fan. Now, that's not too bad for us, since our chassis comes with a hole cut out from the bottom of the motherboard tray, allowing us access to the bottom of the board. Typically, one would just need to remove the fan with the heatsink base. In short, if you're changing your Core i7 processor to another, you'll have to remove the heatsink entirely, including the retention and backplates. And there was no question of us changing the alignment of the retention plates to avoid the catch, since that would then affect the direction of the cooling fan once the heatsink was completely installed. We couldn't remove our processor once these retention plates are installed. It seems that one of the retention plates will interfere with the LGA1366 release catch for the processor. This is when we noticed a glaring design issue. Next, we mounted the two retention plates to our motherboard, using a backplate and four screws.

First, we had to find the Intel specific retention plates (two of them) and adjust them to fit our test system, which was a Socket LGA1366 board. The installation guide proves reasonably useful in answering our queries, but unfortunately, the process itself was more of a hassle than we initially expected. With its extensive support, the Cooler Master V6GT comes with quite an assortment of screws, backplates and retention plates. At the very least, one has to read the manual carefully to choose the right bracket and screws to use for a particular CPU socket. While CPU coolers that support multiple sockets usually age more gracefully than a single socket type, moving along with your next processor upgrade, they are also more likely to pose some questions during installation.

Installing cooler master cpu cooler