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Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler Review
Author: Rafael Otto Coelho
Type: Reviews Last Updated: March 9, 2010
Page: 4 of 8
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Installation
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The installation system used in Tranquillo is relatively simple and very effective. For AMD processors, you just need to screw two clips to the base and then fasten them to the motherboard frame. For Intel CPUs, however, you must screw two clips to the base of the cooler (In Figure 10 you see the socket 775 clips in place), put the respective backplate on the solder side of the motherboard, put the cooler over the CPU and attach it using four spring thumbscrews.

Gelid Tranquillo
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Figure 10: Support for socket 775.

In Figure 11, you can see the cooler installed on our motherboard and, in Figure 12, inside our case. A detail you must consider when installing this cooler is that you must install the fan only after fastening the cooler to the motherboard, otherwise you will have trouble acessing the thumbscrews that hold the cooler in place.

Gelid Tranquillo
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Figure 11: Installed on the motherboard.

Gelid Tranquillo
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Figure 12: Installed in our case.

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