Silent AMD Cooler

Application for INTEL COPPERMINE 1.13 GHz TUALATIN 2.0 GHz &
AMD ALL DURON SERIES & ATHLON XP 3200+

Unclip and raise the lever, and you unlock the socket...

and can drop the CPU in. Modern socket CPUs can only be installed in one orientation; they're keyed by missing pins in the corners.

Push the lever back down until it clicks into place, and the CPU will be locked in. Time to attach the cooler.

The cooler has a pre-applied square of chewing-gum-like thermal compound on the bottom, covered with a peel-off protective sheet. This stuff displaces well under pressure, like grease, but doesn't require any user fiddling. Then again, if you want to re-use the cooler, you should scrape off the compound and replace it with ordinary grease, because you'll never line the cooler up quite the same way twice.

Copper base coolers are always better.

Cooler clips usually have one end with no way to push it down, and another end with some sort of thumb-pad or plier-grip-tab or something. The end you can't push on is the one you hook on first.

Try to put the cooler on the CPU in any other orientation and it'll mis-fit in ways which you will probably find unamusing.

The other end of the clip is made to neatly receive a flathead screwdriver blade, saving you from putting a dent in your thumb and a spike in your blood pressure graph by jamming the clip on without a tool.

With a screwdriver, it's easy to push the clip-end down to engage the hook on the side of the socket.

Presto, one clipped-on cooler.

Once the cooler's clipped on, remember to plug in the CPU fan. If you don't, you'll have a computer that runs great for a few minutes, then crashes over and over and over.

Special Thanks to Dan's Data dot com for the tips and pictures.