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For our testing today we are going to be using a AMD Phenom II X6 1090T CPU in conjunction with the latest ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional motherboard. We will be documenting the installation procedure with an AMD system.
The first step of the installation procedure required us to attach two small brackets to the bottom of the CPU block. There are a number of different brackets included and it is necessary select the pair that correspond to the socket type of your motherboard.
Once these have been attached, you can apply the thermal paste and place the cooler onto the CPU block, making sure the screw threads pass through the holes in the motherboard. Then we secured the cooler down to the motherboard using the four provided nuts. Cooler Master include a small screwdriver adapter for tightening these, to ensure the best possible contact between the block and processor.
As we have found with most sizeable CPU coolers in the past, the Cooler Master Hyper 612S did block some of the RAM slots on our motherboard. The fan can be removed however to fit memory.
Overall the installation procedure was quite simple. This was thanks, in part, to the detailed installation guide that Cooler Master supply. We can foresee some users running into issues installing the cooler when the motherboard is already installed into the system, however. This is because we must secure the cooler on the back of the motherboard while holding the cooler in place, on the other side.
