Re: CoolerMaster CoolViva!

Installation

The first few steps of the installation are the trickiest. The screws used to attach the metal arms to the heatsinks are extremely small and getting them to go in is rather taxing. I don't have bear paws for hands, but it took me several minutes to get these screws in. The next fun part is getting the back of the card setup for the rear heatsink. Getting the washers on the two long screws was also tricky due to their small size. Once they were on and the mounting studs tightenend, things went much easier.

The heatpipe went into grooves between the blue and plain heatsinks, which were screwed together. While CoolerMaster did supply some thermal paste, I quickly found this to be watery and discarded it for some silicon paste I had in store.

One thing I wish CoolerMaster would've included was a thin screwdriver. If you look at these pics, there's some marring around the heatsink where the screws are. Having some jewler screwdrivers would've helped, but I don't know what happened to mine, so I had to resort to the smallest philips head I could find. But it wasn't small enough. It shouldn't be immediately noticeable, but it's not difficult to pick out either.

And here it is, all assembled and ready to go.