A little crooked
I posted my rig pics over at KitGuru
FKD's rig at KitGuru
Some noticed that in this picture you can see that the Coolermaster Hyper 212+ is not on straight.
I had the Cooler (and the APU and RAM) preinstalled on my motherboard when I bought it back a year ago at Memory Express and never noticed that it was not installed squarely. It is possible that I moved it off square when I moved the motherboard into my new R4 case - it's possible.
It's been working well - APU temps get up to about 40°-45° C or so when gaming and normally run in the mid 30's. That seems cool enough. My HD 7970 on the otherhand gets up to about 65°C during gaming - but that I understand is normal temps for a gpu.
But I would like it to be straight - part of my compulsive order disorder
What do I need to do to straighten this out? I could just loosen the bracket and give it a bit of twist, BUT I think I'd need to remove the cooler unit, clean the old paste off and re-paste it, then put the bracket back on. Am I right about this?
Or live with it a little bit off square? Obviously it works.
FYI for this column, if anyone is wondering a Hyper 212+ does work on the FM2 socket (A10 APU) even though when I bought it that was not listed on the box and I just checked and it is not listed on their website. I trust that is not why it is on a bit crooked?