ZALMAN CNPS9500A-LED Cooler not compatible with AM3+?

[ClubSpade12]

It says on their website that it's compatible, but the instructions have minimal helpfulness and there are no videos or threads about this cooler anywhere that I could find. I have no idea how the heck to get this thing hooked up and I need help.

 

[piechockidocent9]

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About 1.35 guy shows up mobo and how he places it.
Or few pics:
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I'm an Intel fanboy so don't have much experience with AMD, hope it will help.

 

[ClubSpade12]

That second one is Intel, and the first one must be totally different than AM3+ because mine looks like this https://www.techpowerup.com/img/11-05-23/113c.jpg and my bracket thing doesn't even have spots for screws where he puts them.

 

[ClubSpade12]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxFtVzTQunA if it helps anyone help me, this video is an unboxing of the same cooler minus the LED, it shows clearly everything this cooler comes with

 

[madmatt30]

You don't use any screw's for am3 socket at all.

Theres a single curved bar in the box approx 3.5 i chea long with 2 square blocks & cutouts each end & a hole inthe middle

The middle hole latches onto the heatsink plate below the main part of the cooler .

The squate cutouts on the ends latch onto your black plastic cpu brackets that came on the board already fixed

 

[ClubSpade12]

There aren't plastic brackets on the motherboard? Those brackets have always come with the CPU for me, you screw them in. This CPU Cooler didn't come with one, looks like. But it still says it's compatible? I'm confused as to why I can't get it in, I can't really explain why that doesn't fix my problem, but it doesn't.

 

[ClubSpade12]

Alright, I guess in a way it did sort of help, but what I did was take the bracket from another cooler and used extra screws from ANOTHER cooler and managed to get it on. This CPU Cooler does not come with said brackets, and that's the real issue here. Thanks for all the help!