Sent you a PM, but just posting what I sent you for reference
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Ah the Hyper 6+.. what fond memories! :bleh:
I had exactly the same problem you had! It took a LOT of time but mostly effort to get it on. Still at the end, even with the heatsink well installed, you may not feel too happy to have the backplate exerting force on the SMD components of your board. Perhaps Deejay or someone could point out any possible side-effects of having too much stress on the SMD's.
What I did:
- There are these tiny screws that hold the bracket to the heatsink base, which i've circled in red in the attached image.
- Loosen these screws just a tad bit to raise the bracket, i.e. it brings the bracket closer to the motherboard.
- This should give you enough leeway to manage to get the backplate screws on!
- If you notice, when fully screwed in, the bracket is a bit recessed compared to the copper base. So even if you loosen it and raise it up a tad bit, it should not interfere with the contact the copper base makes with the heatspreader.
- Be careful with how much you loosen it, you wouldnt want the thing to be too loose with the whole heatsink falling off!
Screws I'm talking about:
What else you could try:
- Get another heatsink! Seriously, installing the Hyper 6+ was troublesome.
- Perhaps there is something I might have missed too. Scratch your head a bit and see if you come up with any better tricks.
- If all else fails, the Joker recommends you have a laugh
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@Inzi: Yep we could not install the heatsink at the Bangalore Launch since we needed access to the rear portion of the mobo - which could not be done without removing the entire board from the cabby! Managed to get it installed, fortunately for the Mumbai launch
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