[PhilBo]

I have two Biostar TForce 550's. I am having great luck with both of them. My question is, when I put on the HSF on both of them (a stock one with a 5200+ and Arctic Cooler Pro 64) it was incredibly difficult to get them on. I thought that I was going to snap the motherboard in half. I almost couldn't get the little latch handle to swing all the way in to the tightened position.


Is this normal for AM2 sockets? Biostar Tforce? Am I doing something obviosly wrong?

Both setups are running really cool so I know they are making good contact, I just didn't like the force necessary to get them on.

I never had any hsf this tight in all my builds back to my first Celeron 300A that I juiced to 450!


Thanks for any input

[funnyperson1]

This is normal with new HSFs, especially the stock ones. I've installed a couple stock heatsinks on AM2 and 939 systems where I felt that little plastic tab would break before I got the latch to tighten.

My Ultra90 took a lot of force to install as well, but its really easy now that I lapped the CPU and Heatsink (and the heatsink was really concave so there were scratch marks on the IHS corners from the mounting pressure)

I think after you've mounted and remounted a couple times it becomes easier.