Product Installation

Mounting the cooler is a relatively easy thing to do, though the motherboard needs to come out of the chassis unless you have a chassis with a mainboard cutout for CPU cooling. We see the older plastic design retention clip again ... it is a bit plasticeeeh. Now you first prepare the back plate, nuts need to be aligned with the holes by shifting them into position.

You position the plastic clip and flip around the motherboard, carefully! :)
 

You should have already inserted your processor, applying thermal paste is not needed as the kit comes with TIM preapplied to the cooling block. With the backplate in place we now install four standoff screws. 
 

The next step is to place the pump on the standoff screws so we can screw stuff together tightly, the Intel mounting bracket (iron bracket on the CPU block) is factory installed already. Once we seat the cooler in position it aligns up with four standoff screws. With the help of a screwdriver we can secure four thumbscrews. Turn them tight until they can go no further.
 

 Once seated you can now connect the CPU lead to your motherboard CPU FAN header, this will also power the pump and fans.
 

You connect the y-cable splitter for fans towards the cooling block and last but not least you need to connect the USB cable into a USB socket on your motherboard. Right, once the motherboard is out, 10 minutes work maximum, we positioned the cooler and are ready for the first test run. The downside sure is that there is a bit of cabling mess going on there with the H80i GT.