Thermaltake Mini Typhoon

W1zzard · 02-15-2006, 11:13 AM

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Hugh7 · 10-27-2007, 09:55 AM

We are mounting a Mini Typhoon on an Asus Striker Extreme motherboard with a 680I chipset. This includes a rectangular copper radiator surrounding the CPU. The Z-clip provides for mounting the Mini Typhoon rotated 45 degrees, but then the pipes of the Mini Typhoon foul the fins of the radiator. We bent the relevant fins out of the way, and it is possible to seat the four fastenings this way, but not make good contact with the CPU - the temperature shoots up.

With the computer on its side, the Mini-Typhoon makes good contact with the CPU just by its own weight when it's square-on. 23 degrees C - cool! in both senses, but of course we don't want to leave it like this.

Is there such a thing as an "H-clip" or some other way by which the Mini Typhoon can be firmly mounted square-on (or rotated up to about 30 degrees) to the motherboard? It needs to be both durable and strong because the MT is such a chunky little nudger. The socket 939 fastener would do the job if there were only something to clip it to.

02-15-2006, 11:13 AM	#1
W1zzard Administrator Join Date: May 2004 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Posts: 7,609 (3.77/day) Thanks: 79 Thanked 2,485 Times in 931 Posts System Specs	Thermaltake Mini Typhoon To read this review go to: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/T...e/MiniTyphoon/ Please Digg the review to help us promote it. Last edited by W1zzard; 07-11-2006 at 10:39 AM.

Processor:	Intel Core Duo E6600 @ 3.4 GHz
Motherboard:	ABIT AW9D-MAX
Cooling:	Scythe Infinity
Memory:	2x 2048MB Mushkin PC2-8800
Video Card:	GeForce GTX 260 896 MB
Harddisk:	74 GB WD Raptor, 250 GB WD Caviar SE, 500 GB WD Caviar
CD/DVD Drive:	BenQ DW1640
CRT/LCD Model:	Dell 2001FP 20.1" TFT, 1600x1200 + 19" 1280x1024
Case:	Thermaltake Eureka
Sound Card:	On-board Realtek HD
PSU:	Zalman ZM-850 HP
Software:	Windows XP SP2

10-27-2007, 09:55 AM	#2
Hugh7 Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Mounting the Mini Typhoon on a Stryker We are mounting a Mini Typhoon on an Asus Striker Extreme motherboard with a 680I chipset. This includes a rectangular copper radiator surrounding the CPU. The Z-clip provides for mounting the Mini Typhoon rotated 45 degrees, but then the pipes of the Mini Typhoon foul the fins of the radiator. We bent the relevant fins out of the way, and it is possible to seat the four fastenings this way, but not make good contact with the CPU - the temperature shoots up. With the computer on its side, the Mini-Typhoon makes good contact with the CPU just by its own weight when it's square-on. 23 degrees C - cool! in both senses, but of course we don't want to leave it like this. Is there such a thing as an "H-clip" or some other way by which the Mini Typhoon can be firmly mounted square-on (or rotated up to about 30 degrees) to the motherboard? It needs to be both durable and strong because the MT is such a chunky little nudger. The socket 939 fastener would do the job if there were only something to clip it to. Last edited by Hugh7; 10-27-2007 at 11:12 AM.

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