will Thermalright HR-02 Macho Rev. B damage my cpu?

[valletitov]

hey, on thermalrights page for macho rev. B (in link below) it says "We strongly recommend to use our specially designed 1151 Support Spacer when mounting the cooler on LGA11 “Skylake” CPUs. Please send us an email, to receive them for free", what does that mean? will i damage my cpu if i dont get one of those "spacers"?

link: http://www.thermalright.de/en/cooler/42/macho-rev.-b

 

[JQB45]

Why take the chance, they are giving it to you for free. Skylakes are prone to breaking due to the stress of a heat sink. More so then older generation Intel CPU's. This has been documented by articles in past here on Tomshardware.

 

[valletitov]

Why take the chance, they are giving it to you for free. Skylakes are prone to breaking due to the stress of a heat sink. More so then older generation Intel CPU's. This has been documented by articles in past here on Tomshardware.

Because i live in germany and gonna buy the cooler in a physical store. I dont want to have to wait for a little spacer to arrive

 

[JQB45]

My best suggestion to you then is to talk to the customer support for the CPU Cooler and do two things.

1. Ask them why you need the spacer.
2. Ask them how long it would take to ship to you.

Then make up your mind whether its worth destroying your skylake just to save time.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Buy a different cooler if you can't wait on the spacer. Skylake CPUs and motherboards can be damaged by some coolers without proper mounting.

 

[valletitov]

My best suggestion to you then is to talk to the customer support for the CPU Cooler and do two things.

1. Ask them why you need the spacer.
2. Ask them how long it would take to ship to you.

Then make up your mind whether its worth destroying you skylake just to save time.

i will make up my mind whether its worth waiting or choosing another cooler. Its just that ive read a lot of good reviews about this cooler but never saw anything about this spacer thing.

btw sorry for my bad english

 

[JQB45]

Your English is fine.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

We do have a German version of Tom's hardware 😉

http://www.tomshardware.de/

 

[valletitov]

I asked thermalright and they said its because they´ve seen reports of havier coolers (not only thermalright) damaging skylake builds, so they decided to solve this problem with these spacers. So its not something to do whith macho rev b only, but atleast with macho rev b you have the option to get one of those spacers which you dont have with many other, even havier coolers.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Exactly what I said in my first post. Early reports had some heavier coolers damaging Skylake CPUs and motherboards. It was never an issue with the high end stuff like Noctua and Phanteks though as they already had excellent mounting systems.