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Ordered a THERMALTAKE CLP0534 SLIM X3 and some Prolimatech PK-1 Thermal Paste... The last thing I can do basically. Then I will tear the fan off the old CPU cooler, hook that up, and cool my GPU a bit better.
 


Yeah I had acute appendicitis. Swollen, inflamed, and infected. Worst pain I have ever felt. It made breaking my ankle feel like nothing at all. They ask you to jump off the ground when you get to the ER. If you can hop and land safely, you do not have appendicitis. If you do what I did, and collapse to the floor screaming/crying then you probably have appendicitis. And apparently mine was not even that bad.

I'm feeling alot better now. Taking the week off and everything but each day I feel magnitudes better.
 
No appendix issues for me or my siblings; my father had his out.
I tend to be mostly indifferent to hotels, since wherever I am I'm probably not there to spend time in a hotel.
I liked the Polynesian in DisneyWorld though, when I was 15, and again when I was 17; I think mostly for the sounds from the luau at night. My little sister was involved in a boat "wreck" there (no one was hurt, but her boat had to be towed in with the top half mostly cracked off of it), and we tease her to this day that it is the reason she went to the Naval Academy, so she'd be allowed to rent a boat at DisneyWorld again.
 


Definitely not a bad idea. I'm buying a Phanteks Enthoo Pro in a couple of days or so and moving my Dark Knight rig into it.
 
Well, here's what happened. I installed it perfectly into place. Pushed on the corners, and it snapped into place perfectly fine. But then, when trying to place the motherboard on the standoffs, the IO shield pushed against the motherboard, making the holes not aligned with the standoffs but about a couple centimeters to the right. All the motherboard ports are properly in the IO shield holes, but I have to push the motherboard with more force than expected against the IO shield to align it with the standoffs. So, with one hand I am pushing the motherboard, and the other hand I am trying to get these screws in place with a single hand.

Then some of the screws are crooked because it wasn't perfectly aligned, so I have to try again and again. Or I eased off on the force a tad, so I have to restart. Finally after about 10 tries I managed to get a few screws in which kept the motherboard in position, then I could install the rest of them. I don't know if you've ever had experiences like this, but I 100% installed the shield properly, and there was just no possible way to align the motherboard with the standoffs without pushing the motherboard into the shield. I almost actually sweat on my motherboard, fortunately I backed off and the big drop of sweat landed next to the computer.

Unless you can shed some light on what I did wrong, everything seemed perfectly fine to me.
 
"All the motherboard ports are properly in the IO shield holes, but I have to push the motherboard with more force than expected against the IO shield to align it with the standoffs. So, with one hand I am pushing the motherboard, and the other hand I am trying to get these screws in place with a single hand."

That is perfectly normal. Force is usually always required to hold a motherboard in place to screw it in.
 
Some pressure is always required to ensure a good ground, but it should not be that difficult. Is this a Coolermaster case? What case is it? With the motherboard out, check for misalignment (especially along a seam); it may simply pop back into place.
 
Not the shield, but the entire back panel may have popped over a seam; the whole rear panel may need to be pushed out. I've only seen this in a couple of Coolermaster cases, and not lately, but it's something to check. I usually have to push a board against its I/O panel, but usually only 1/16"-1/8". You say yours is a couple of centimeters?? That's over half an inch; something is wrong there.
 
Oh yeah I didn't think of that.

I have no experience with aftermarket coolers. I'm just going by the video at the bottom of the page here http://www.cryorig.com/c7_us.php The guy sticks the cooler through the holes, flips over the motherboard, then installs that black backplate, which I was assuming could not be done without removing the motherboard itself.

Edit: You're right! Now that I look I won't have to remove the board. Yes! The back of the motherboard is exposed in that area.
 
That's the way to do it. I don't ever take a board back out unless it's absolutely necessary. On some of the VERY large coolers, it's still easier to remove the board, but for smaller coolers with plenty of room to work around the cooler, and most newer designs on large coolers that incorporate screwdriver reliefs in the heatsink so you can reach the mounting screws, it isn't necessary.
 
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