Review on 🌬️ Enhanced Cooling Technology: Introducing the PHANTEKS PH TC14PE Heat Pipes Premium Patented Cooler by Mark Adlesh

This thing is huge. If the processor on your motherboard is where it should be, like mine, then it's not actually blocking the first PCI slot. Unfortunately, with most motherboards, the CPU socket is too low or too high, causing obstacles. My motherboard is a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 and my case is a Lian Li PC9F. I have no sharing issues. However, my RAM does not use tall heatsinks. If you have AMD motherboard, assembly is really convenient. It uses the standard motherboard backplate that comes with all AMD motherboards. You simply replace the clips on top of the motherboard with Phanteks mounts, making this cooler surprisingly easy to install, even if the motherboard is already screwed into the case. The Intel backplate is no bigger than it should be. So if your case has a cutout for the motherboard tray, you should be able to mount it on an Intel board without removing the motherboard. not too picky. The clips can also be bent if you want to use a fully finned fan like a soft typhoon. The clip design also allows you to mount the fan as high or low as you like. I installed a center fan as low as possible to maintain airflow to the motherboard VRMs. The heatsink comes with 3 pairs of fan clips so you can mount 3 fans on it if you want, although I think it weighs quite a bit even with just one fan. I have an 8320 clocked up to 4.5GHz and with Prime95 on all eight cores and a central fan running at 1150RPM I get a maximum of 62C. Reducing the fan speed to 900RPM /min means that the fan is no longer audible at 70°C. I didn't attach the second fan that comes with this heatsink as I plan on keeping it as a backup.