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Ah yeah in small writing it says AM3 mount. Awesome.

And yeah better to move away from the forum before I stir things up again! Just kidding, I think I've just decreased everyone's life by a couple of years from stress

Lol my bad, I caused it all

(This is a constructive post!) Though from here and here it shows the AC A30 is better and the Xigmatek Aegir is better.

I am a bit inclined and torn towards the Aegir now from its results. I will be mounting a 100CFM 140MM cooler on it plus the stock which is rated at 98CFM or something.
Edited by mikeo01 - 12/6/12 at 12:49pm

I should be fine installing it, I will take the motherboard out to install it because I see the mounting is a lot different.

Thanks for the heads up, the Macho is pretty massive I have a long screwdriver so shouldn't be much of an issue.

18cm?! OK that IS long that may be a challenge. Ah its fun building and putting a heatsink so should be good

Just found couple of reviews on what cooler matches the Macho. Xigmateks newest Dark Knight II Hawk Edition. Ordered it! Looks very promising and has good reviews.

Will post pictures up soon. See how this new coated technology works

Haha course not, it would be pretty pathetic for me to get moody over it. I see both your reasoning, considering its over 8 pages long! My bad!

But yeah, I will read the instructions because I am used to the AMD simple snap on click done type of mounting bracket. Also, that is one of the reason I wanted a better cooler, for some reason Xigmatek only shipped the Thors Hammer with the standard AMD mount, so it allowed only one orientation.

I checked up the Dark Knight Hawk and it comes with an all in one mounting system, so it lines up the holes allowing you to install it in any direction. Looked up couple of youtube videos with AMD setups to make sure, so thankfully they've included a new mounting system (that the original dark knight lacked).

And alright I will give that a shot with the TIM, I have got my temperature readings on my desktop still so I will compare them. I think the orientation will really help as well as having chunky heat pipes, I will run it passive, single fan and then dual fan to see the temperatures also to see what work its doing. My MX-2 is my personal choice, its nice and easy to use and does the job. So will install it without and then with, when the cooler arrives.

Also yeah, the Hyper 212 comes with additional mounting brackets, most new coolers (if not all) allow a change in orientation for AMD. Thas the one thing AMD used to lack, my thors hammer is quite old because they eventually brought out the Crossbar mounting system which unfortunately was so rare to find and was mainly in America it was sold (newegg). Then this version, Dark Knight Hawk they've finally included the crossbar pressure mounting bracket for us AMD guys

Thanks again everyone for your help!