Nexus VCT-9000 CPU Cooler Review
Installation
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In Figure 9, you can see the base of the cooler with the holding clips for Intel CPUs in place. These clips are similar to the ones used on the Intel stock cooler, but it fits sockets 775, 1156 and 1366.
Figure 9: Intel clips.
In Figure 10, you can see the cooler installed on our motherboard. It was a very hard installation, because access to the clips is too narrow for the fingers. Even with no backplate, it is virtually impossible to install this cooler if you don’t remove the motherboard from the case.
Figure 10: Installed on the motherboard.
In Figure 11, you can see the cooler installed in our case.
Figure 11: Installed on case.
On other reviews we go straight to the test methodology and results after this page, but with this cooler we had an unpleasant surprise, which we explain in the next page.