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Now you simply push the fan onto the T shaped rubber mounts and you secure the fan. It's that simple. Since the rubber mounts are a little fragile, I'd like to see OCZ include five instead of four of these mounts. Use too much force and they can snap.

Most of you will use the cooler on a Socket LGA775, you need to attach the retention brackets to the base with the help of two screws, one each side. Now you can mount the fan onto the mainboard.

But first, please do not forget to clean the CPU and apply a little thermal paste (included). A little drop is enough, smear it out flat over the CPU. This is a photo for reference from another session by the way, not the mainboard and thermal paste we used in this review.

Mounted and ready to be tested, the technology of heatpipe cooling is somewhat based on a 'refrigerator'. In all honesty, this is a combination of the technology used in refrigeration and actually phase changer coolers. When you look closely at the cooler you'll see copper pipes and cooling ribbons. An internal gas/substance or even air is inside these pipes and flows from the chamber upwards towards the cooling ribbons, where heat will be dissipated with the help of airflow. The cooling method is all based around circulation. By absorbing heat from the processor, the heat will travel towards the top of the pipes where heat will follow the path of least resistance, to the aluminum fins. 

So the cooling block mounted on your CPU absorbs whatever heat energy is available to it from its surroundings.