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Spire TherMax Eclipse II CPU Cooler Review

We tested the Spire TherMax Eclipse II CPU cooler, which has five heatpipes and two 120 mm fans. Is it better than the original TherMax Eclipse? Let's check it out!

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Installation

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The TherMax Eclipse II
  • 3. The TherMax Eclipse II (Cont’d)
  • 4. Installation
  • 5. How We Tested
  • 6. Our Tests
  • 7. Main Specifications
  • 8. Conclusions

To install the cooler, the fist step is to prepare the backplate, inserting screws in the available holes according to the socket used by your CPU.

Spire TherMax Eclipse IIFigure 12: Backplate

After that, install the backplate on the solder side of the motherboard, put the cooler on the CPU and screw the four thumbnuts. Easy? Not at all. The access to the thumbnuts is so narrow that we had to remove the motherboard from the case in order to install the TherMax Eclipse II, even considering our case has an opening in the motherboard tray, giving access to the solder side of the motherboard. Only after installing the heatsink on the CPU is that you can install the fans.

Spire TherMax Eclipse IIFigure 13: Installed on the motherboard

Spire TherMax Eclipse IIFigure 14: Cooler with the fans installed

In Figure 15, you can see the TherMax Eclipse II instaled in our case.

Spire TherMax Eclipse IIFigure 15: Cooler installed in our case

Continue: How We Tested

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