Scythe Big Shuriken CPU Cooler Review
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The Big Shuriken holding system is simple and complicated at the same time. Simple because the clip installation in to the cooler is extremely easy, with no tool required. You just need to insert on the cooler base one of the three clip sets seen in Figure 10. The left set fits AMD socket AM3, AM2+, AM2, 939 and 754 CPUs. The middle pair is for use with the (obsolete) socket 478. The right one supports, according to the manual and the product website, sockets 775 and 1366, but as socket LGA1156 holes are inbetween those ones, the Big Shuriken can also be used with this socket.
Figure 10: Clips.
The complicated side is the fact the cooler is big but very low, so pressing the clips is a hard task, because there is no room for your fingers to reach the clips. It may be necessary to remove the motherboard from the case.
In Figure 11, you can see how the cooler looks installed into our case. In our motherboard, as we are using memory modules with tall heatsinks, the cooler obstructed the first memory slot, but with modules with no heatsink there will not be a problem.
Figure 11: Installed into case.