Scythe SCCSMG2-1156 LGA1156 Mounting Clips for MUGEN2 CPU Cooler

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This mounting kit does what it is supposed to do. It securely fastens the Mugen2 to a LGA1156 mobo, and does so without using the annoying push pins. If you grabbed the Mugen2 without noticing it doesn't work budget i3,i5 series cpu socket, this will fix your problem.

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The baseplate does what it says, but I had to trim a bit off the plate under the motherboard to clear some mounting hardware from the VRM heatsinks on the back of the motherboard. There is not a lot of room for big fingers to get underneath the Mugen 2 and around the VRM heatsinks on the topside of the motherboard to fasten the heatsink to the clips. You definitely could not mount the heatsink to the motherboard inside the case, you need to assemble the heatsink to the motherboard outside the case. Other motherboard may have more room - I had to use needlenose pliers to get into the space between the heatsink and mounting clips.The performance of the Mugen2 at cooling was a couple of degrees worse than the Hyper 212 outside the case with all 4 cores loaded on an i860, but the Mugen 2 had a quieter fan, so I stayed with using the Mugen. The mounting of the Hyper 212 was much simpler.I managed to use a 160x multiplier, and keep all the dynamic overclocking features on, so I would get about 4.1Ghz running single core, and 3.6Ghz running all 4 cores. I needed a 0.075 voltage boost for stability, and the temperatures reached about 82 in the case with all 4 cores loaded. The voltage boost was required to be that high for the single core loading, with all cores loaded the system would be stable with only about a 0.04v boost - the higher speed on loading only the single core was the limiting factor for stability.The instructions don't say anything, but the parts in this kit will float around until the heatsink is mounted. I originally thought that the supplied screws were too long as nothing was snug - the plate on the back on the clips on the front could move around a lot axially. So don't try looking for more parts to add, or tightening screws more.