So a few months ago I bought a Hyper 212 Evo. I installed it but then a week or two later i removed to reapply the thermal paste. I found it very hard to remove three of the screws holding the cooler down. I eventually got them off, but realised I had pulled the standoffs off with them. I then had to use a small electric drill to remove the screw from the standoffs because it was on so tight. I also noticed one of the screws had grinded / scraped a little bit off my motherboard. It was like if you were making something acrylic and were filing it, a small curl came off (like it was wearing down). I then put my cooler back on. It rotates slightly for some reason, but otherwise it's on fine. I tightened the screws (hopefully) not as tight as the first time but probably still a bit too tight.
My questions are:
(a) Is it normal for my cooler to rotate slightly? Not on it's own, but if I were to try and remove the fan from it I'd rotate by trying to grip it.
(b) Will tightening the screws too tight damage anything. Should I remove the cooler and tighten them a lot less?
(c) Should I worried about this little scrape that it has taken off my motherboard?
This 'incident' happened about 1-2 months ago and my PC has been going fine.
(Also, I am worried about my ambient temps being too high, they hover around 36-40 degrees celsius and are a constant 38 as I'm typing this with a load of chrome tabs and teamspeak open. I ran the Small FFTs (maximum heat) test on Prime95 for 10 minutes and the temps never went about 70 degrees celsius, staying mostly at 68. This might be due to my bedroom being a very small and warm, the fact that my pc is pressed up against a wall down near the floor and also the fact that there is a radiator right beside the back of my pc. It's not on much though, and when it is it isn't particularly warm. Are these ambient temps worrying? Oh dear.)
Right, that was a long post. Thank you for taking your time to read this and any help / advice / warnings would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
My questions are:
(a) Is it normal for my cooler to rotate slightly? Not on it's own, but if I were to try and remove the fan from it I'd rotate by trying to grip it.
(b) Will tightening the screws too tight damage anything. Should I remove the cooler and tighten them a lot less?
(c) Should I worried about this little scrape that it has taken off my motherboard?
This 'incident' happened about 1-2 months ago and my PC has been going fine.
(Also, I am worried about my ambient temps being too high, they hover around 36-40 degrees celsius and are a constant 38 as I'm typing this with a load of chrome tabs and teamspeak open. I ran the Small FFTs (maximum heat) test on Prime95 for 10 minutes and the temps never went about 70 degrees celsius, staying mostly at 68. This might be due to my bedroom being a very small and warm, the fact that my pc is pressed up against a wall down near the floor and also the fact that there is a radiator right beside the back of my pc. It's not on much though, and when it is it isn't particularly warm. Are these ambient temps worrying? Oh dear.)
Right, that was a long post. Thank you for taking your time to read this and any help / advice / warnings would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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