Then try these: Thermalright LGA775 Bolt-Thru-Kit

My God, I hate the 775 push pins. I got a new Arctic Freezer Pro 7, totally buggered the install, and in attempt to fix it I tried using the pins from my old heatsink and buggered them too! So I did some googling and came across the Themalright LGA 775 bolt through kit. It seems to work real well so far. It's under $10, easy to install, and there are no push pins! Totally worthwhile imo, I will use them for any PC I build in the future, those push pins are horrible, I don't care what anyone says!

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lol, I foreseen this already. I can handle push pins, but still prefer to screw it down with the bracket. The only thing I hate, is when I upgrade the CPU, thus I must upgrade the cpu cooling fan too. I usually just get the push pin, cause alot of times. I dont want to extract the motherboard and everything out just to put the bracket. But.... BRACKET FTW

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Amen brother, took me like 15 minutes to install it. Yeah it sucked having to take the mobo out of the case, but it is a small price to pay for not having to deal with the push pins. Backplate for now and always, that is the only thing I can really complain about with Intel... and they used the same design for Nehalem. The screws are in tight and a lot easier to deal with then the push pins. Plus if I want to change my HSF, no problem, no fear anymore.

That's why I haven't been on (and a crazy first full week as a case manager), my PC was without a HSF.

Ah well, I'm back and at 3.25Ghz, idling cooler than my old HSF at 3.0.

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