Hi all, bear with me because i don't know all the terminology.
I got the PCS Frostfire 80 cpu cooler with my pcspecialist pc. It's one of those standard smallish air cooled heatsinks with a fan attached. It's a PCSpecialist brand I think. I got myself a Coolermaster ML120L water cooler (as Green Hell was going to make my pc burst into flames with that tiny cooler), and when i went to install it the depth of my ignorance became clear. I've replaced a few air coolers over the years and never had an issue. You loosen the screws at the base of the heatsink that attach it to the motherboard, remove, and do in reverse for new one and jobs a good 'un.
This water cooler, rather than have big spring loaded retained screws at the front of the motherboard that i'm used to, requires you to place a plastic X-shaped bracket at the back of the motherboard. This bracket holds 4 long screws that pass through the motherboard from the back to the front. The cooler is then attaced to these 4 long screws and secured with nuts at the front.
The 4 long screws are waaay to thick to fit through the holes on my motherboard. I see there is already a smaller plastic bracket attached, but i don't want to start pulling on it incase i break something expensive. As the cooler that came with the pc is a PCSpecialist brand i can't find the documentation. If i could see how it was installed i could undo it.
So in short, there's probably something obvious i'm missing but there is no obvious way to remove the plastic bracket from the back of the motherboard, and i don't want to yank on it and break it, what am i missing? Alternatively, if someone can point me towards place to access pc specialist own-brand cooler documentation that would be amazing.
I got the PCS Frostfire 80 cpu cooler with my pcspecialist pc. It's one of those standard smallish air cooled heatsinks with a fan attached. It's a PCSpecialist brand I think. I got myself a Coolermaster ML120L water cooler (as Green Hell was going to make my pc burst into flames with that tiny cooler), and when i went to install it the depth of my ignorance became clear. I've replaced a few air coolers over the years and never had an issue. You loosen the screws at the base of the heatsink that attach it to the motherboard, remove, and do in reverse for new one and jobs a good 'un.
This water cooler, rather than have big spring loaded retained screws at the front of the motherboard that i'm used to, requires you to place a plastic X-shaped bracket at the back of the motherboard. This bracket holds 4 long screws that pass through the motherboard from the back to the front. The cooler is then attaced to these 4 long screws and secured with nuts at the front.
The 4 long screws are waaay to thick to fit through the holes on my motherboard. I see there is already a smaller plastic bracket attached, but i don't want to start pulling on it incase i break something expensive. As the cooler that came with the pc is a PCSpecialist brand i can't find the documentation. If i could see how it was installed i could undo it.
So in short, there's probably something obvious i'm missing but there is no obvious way to remove the plastic bracket from the back of the motherboard, and i don't want to yank on it and break it, what am i missing? Alternatively, if someone can point me towards place to access pc specialist own-brand cooler documentation that would be amazing.
